a fun steel based console

well this one was interesting ... it started with husband and wife clients who were looking for interesting wood.  they had already committed to a small slab of claro walnut that i had on hand for their coffee table and were wondering what else i might have around.  i just happened to have this curved log of cherry that was sawed up by my friend mike stock of stocks tree care in west pawlet.  it came from the edge of a house adjacent to the 16th tee at the dorset field club where
we had done some work back in 2012.

the concept started as a full length bench, but after taking the mockup home with them, they decided a behind the couch console table would be more appropriate.

 

i made a couple of photoshopped sketches from the taller mockup

because the base looked kind of empty with the top up at table height.

 

we took elements from these two previous pieces

and combined them into the finished piece... the steel end pieces were originally temporary to keep the top piece flat while we worked on it, but we all liked them, so they stayed as part of the finished design.

cool project !! the clients are happy!

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37 years ago

every once in a while, if youve been making things a long time, you stumble on something you made a long time ago that you have maybe forgotten about.  like this door above ... made it in 1978, 37 years ago.  all heart, eastern white pine, no finish, no rot, outside, facing east no less, and sound as a dollar.  the owner and i agree that when youve got good pine installed in a vertical orientation, the very best and longest lasting finish is no finish at all ...

18 years and counting on the wood shop, center, 15 years on the finish room, right, and the new pine on the metal shop, 2013.  no finish, except for paint on the window trim ..

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