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Old 08-02-2015, 05:48 PM
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Here are some of my household possessions I made over the years.

This coffee table I made in 1985 +/-. It is made from local cherry, all from the same billet, and bookmatched throughout. The frame is incorporated into the top, and I felt pretty clever when I did it. The splines in the top are Brazilian Rosewood.





I originally made this light for a customer who gave it back to me after he'd remodeled (again) and asked me to sell it for him. Make me an offer, but I'll miss it, it is hanging over my dining table. It is made from Black Walnut and is nearly 3' long.





My kitchen is birdseye maple and has ebony pulls. Just to make it harder, I used butt hinges on the doors. It very simple, architecturally, but it is elegant IMO.





Here is the livingroom side of the previous cabinet, This side is walnut and has lightly quilted Big Leaf maple panels.



I imagine you can see, that as with my guitars, I tend toward understatement.
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Old 08-02-2015, 07:12 PM
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Bruce, I love that ceiling lamp. It is very Greene & Greene and would be right at home in the Gamble House.

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Old 08-02-2015, 08:49 PM
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The table is spectacular, but you sketch is even better. Really so very life like!!! I wish I had half of that artistic ability!
Thanks TomB'sox! That drawing was inspired by Kent Bellows and Anthony Waichulis.
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Old 08-02-2015, 09:43 PM
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What gifts you guys have.
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Old 08-03-2015, 08:11 AM
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Here is what I'm building right now. [/URL]
Hey brother, good to see the progress! Hot hide glue on this one?

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Old 08-03-2015, 04:46 PM
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Thanks for noticing bro. It's such a traditional thing. I like the old school vibes.
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Old 08-04-2015, 01:09 PM
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Wow there is some impressive stuff going on here. I've built a few tables and chairs but lets jsut say they are far more rustic looking then some of the elegant master pieces seen here. I'm happy to see other's building new shops as well. I'm just about done with mine. Moved into a new house two years ago and it had a barn on the property which was well built but needed a lot of work.

I went from this:







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Hopefully I'll be building again end of August.
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Old 08-04-2015, 04:46 PM
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Wow!!! What a transformation...
I love the feel of this space...I can imagine what it actually feels like for you to stand in it. I really like the floors and the old benches too.

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Wow there is some impressive stuff going on here. I've built a few tables and chairs but lets jsut say they are far more rustic looking then some of the elegant master pieces seen here. I'm happy to see other's building new shops as well. I'm just about done with mine. Moved into a new house two years ago and it had a barn on the property which was well built but needed a lot of work.

I went from this:







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Hopefully I'll be building again end of August.
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Old 08-08-2015, 04:41 PM
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Custom Furniture:
Dining set in Wenge, Aluminum and Blonde Snakewood Veneer



Nouveau Side chair - set of 6

Nouveau Arm Chair Set of 2

Mission Dining Chair - Set of 20

Bookmatched Walnut Headboard Planks ready for Butterflies

Finished Headboard

Oregon Ash Picnic Set


When I'm not doing wood stuff I'm usually working on my '74 911:


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Old 08-08-2015, 06:01 PM
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I had no idea, Charles! I have fabricated a number of parts for my car. I first started to weld about 2 years ago, but I have imagined most of an ever morphing original car since my teens. Perhaps I will yet manifest it!

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I started on cars as soon as I had my license in the early 70's High School - '64 VW with a blown engine. Learned how to weld, run a lathe, mill, etc back when public schools had shop classes....Then I moved on to Honda motorcycles which was good training for the Porsche - chain driven OHC air cooled.

In the woulda coulda category, with Porsche prices where they are now, that would have been the better career path. Good solid german engineering, wide range of parts interchangeability (my '74 has mostly '82 suspension and brakes).
Front Suspension Rebuild
Rear Suspension Rebuild

By the looks of the color scheme, yours is a Lotus? I live for track days now...

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I've been making quite a few small wooden pipes for friends. It's been an interesting change of pace from guitar building and I'd like to try some furniture making now.

I'd share a pic of one of my pipes, but I don't know if that's allowed.
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Too many wasted hours, well at least it kept me out of trouble. Did a back of the napkin engineering and proceeded to build a car. Have another picture somewhere with the seats, steering wheel, windshield and doors. Pretty much a rolling chassis. Made a full sized body plug to take molds off of. Lost my job and went back to school. Moved and it all went by the wayside. Mustang front and rear end, 3.8 Buick engine and 350 tranny. All that is left is three pictures and some suspension bits that I tig welded. Had to keep something.

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I've been making quite a few small wooden pipes for friends. It's been an interesting change of pace from guitar building and I'd like to try some furniture making now.

I'd share a pic of one of my pipes, but I don't know if that's allowed.
Don't smell the aroma of pipe tobacco much these days.
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Old 08-08-2015, 07:52 PM
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No officer, I have never made a pipe.


My car is a Westfield pre-Lit, made in 1984. It is so good a copy of a Lotus that only a true expert can spot the differences, and Westfield lost the lawsuit which forced them to cease a desist production. Hence pre-Lit(igation), which differentiates it from subsequent more sophisticated but possibly less interesting offerings from the company, which is still in business.

In the same era (1990 or so) when I was NOT making pipes, I made this bandsaw box, a titled piece; "Alfa That Might Have Been", which is about 10 inches long:





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