believe it or not, i am still buried in a blizzard of papework. while i'm not complaining, and we have moved quite a few names from the 'in process' to the 'deposited' column, i am finding it extremely difficult to find time to write. i have a couple posts in the works and i hope to get to them 'soon', though i don't see it happening for the rest of this week. and then there's the holiday.. today we went to stratton for a 'pre-install', which is a word i made up to describe a process new to us. there has been a design change, which brings our cabinet into very close contact with an existing, rough sawn beam that has twisted and curved out of plumb since its installation years ago. that made it difficult to predict how our cabinet will look regarding the negative space between the plumb and level and straight cabinet and the twisted post. with a little molding tweaking, we will be able to fit the cabinet inside the corner of the beam and while it fades away from the post at the top, at least there is light all the way and it will look fine when it's all finished and installed ... until i have some time to write something coherent and informative, here are some photos of what we've been working on this month. some of these projects i hope to document more fully 'later' ... patience, patience; it's a virtue ... click the pictures to enlarge them ...
the cabinet 'tweaked' into position today ... at first it was not so good
a photoshopped mockup of the finished cabinets ... the 'design change' i spoke of was some new slimmer and neater stonework ...
working out the setails
and, we snuck in a custom elm table top .. looks perfect doesn't it ...
actually, it was not so good when we started. it was pretty severely cracked on the back side, which required some extensive butterfly work and some pretty extensice filling on the face side
and the ends ... they are seamless now and that technique will make a good post sometime ...
sam completed the first of three welded steel and rebar bases ... a little painting, a little intentional rusting and he'll be all set ... there is a 17 foot table that goes with this one. all will have elm slab tops and the long one has an interesting 30" x 30" brick column in the middle of it that will require some interesting joinery.
this one's for the 9' 8" table
and this is the shop drawing for the 17 footer
and, we're coming to the end on a 62" round pedestal table with some fancy edge inlay work, three leaves, and lots of burl ....
and a somewhat complex base below
and ... we fixed a mirror !!
it doesn't look like anything fancy, but it belonged to a client's grandmother and so, was important ..
it required some thoughtful jig work, the design of the workings of which will come in handy sometime in the future i'm sure.
cute when it was done ...
the claro slab on the wall is going to aspen as a coffee table with black steel legs ...
and i'm out of here for now ....
believe it or not, i am still buried in a blizzard of papework. while i'm not complaining, and we have moved quite a few names from the 'in process' to the 'deposited' column, i am finding it extremely difficult to find time to write. i have a couple posts in the works and i hope to get to them 'soon', though i don't see it happening for the rest of this week. and then there's the holiday.. today we went to stratton for a 'pre-install', which is a word i made up to describe a process new to us. there has been a design change, which brings our cabinet into very close contact with an existing, rough sawn beam that has twisted and curved out of plumb since its installation years ago. that made it difficult to predict how our cabinet will look regarding the negative space between the plumb and level and straight cabinet and the twisted post. with a little molding tweaking, we will be able to fit the cabinet inside the corner of the beam and while it fades away from the post at the top, at least there is light all the way and it will look fine when it's all finished and installed ... until i have some time to write something coherent and informative, here are some photos of what we've been working on this month. some of these projects i hope to document more fully 'later' ... patience, patience; it's a virtue ... click the pictures to enlarge them ...
the cabinet 'tweaked' into position today ... at first it was not so good
a photoshopped mockup of the finished cabinets ... the 'design change' i spoke of was some new slimmer and neater stonework ...
working out the setails
and, we snuck in a custom elm table top .. looks perfect doesn't it ...
actually, it was not so good when we started. it was pretty severely cracked on the back side, which required some extensive butterfly work and some pretty extensice filling on the face side
and the ends ... they are seamless now and that technique will make a good post sometime ...
sam completed the first of three welded steel and rebar bases ... a little painting, a little intentional rusting and he'll be all set ... there is a 17 foot table that goes with this one. all will have elm slab tops and the long one has an interesting 30" x 30" brick column in the middle of it that will require some interesting joinery.
this one's for the 9' 8" table
and this is the shop drawing for the 17 footer
and, we're coming to the end on a 62" round pedestal table with some fancy edge inlay work, three leaves, and lots of burl ....
and a somewhat complex base below
and ... we fixed a mirror !!
it doesn't look like anything fancy, but it belonged to a client's grandmother and so, was important ..
it required some thoughtful jig work, the design of the workings of which will come in handy sometime in the future i'm sure.
cute when it was done ...
the claro slab on the wall is going to aspen as a coffee table with black steel legs ...
and i'm out of here for now ....