Some more of my furniture

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Well, as you know my father-in-law, Dennis, has been teaching me some woodworking. You've seen my little stool today. Your comments were grascious, so I fiddled with the dayum camera till the little lens caps would open again. Anyway here are a few pieces. The good work is collaborative, mind you. But 100% of the designs are mine and a good 40% of the work too. The finishing is mine too. Just polyurethane on all shown. A little milk paint as an accent on Leah's stool with polyU over it. Its made of Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry). The chest is Walnut and White Oak. Frame and panel and the panels are 1" thick stock. Its a heavy beast. I like that in knives and furniture too. The table is a tapered leg lamp table of Cherry and Curly Maple. The drawyer is a box joint and grooves for drawyer guides. (Dennis did the box joint.) The legs taper after the skirt to the floor. The little candle holder sitting on the table was turned in my shop. We also did about a dozen humidors. I kept one of the Brazilian Chery lined with Spanish Cedar. Didn't take a pic though out of dumbishness. Anyway heres some pics for your perusal.
 
Good stuff, Andy. Nice clean lines and appears to be well crafted. I am jealous.

--Mike L.
 
you and I need to work up a trade, Andy! :thumbup:


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That there is some primo stuff Andy, stuff made to last for generations, I like that, a lot. :thumbup:

Sarge
 
Daniel Koster said:
you and I need to work up a trade, Andy! :thumbup:


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Dang. Dan you've made me blush. Thanks for the compliments guys. I'll try to get a pic of the Humidor tonight.

"Are you a Normite or a faithful follower of St Roy?" 45-70

Swish... over my head. No suprise there. I'll have to google this one. LOL.

I am hoping Bamboo will post something of his work. He is studying under masters, and I'm dying to know what that is like. I just fumble around, and know autocad enough to draw stuff up. Leah's dad is a big help, but much like me a self tought fumbler.

My Uncle Ray, the WWII vet you guys have heard so much about, was considered a master, but alas, I was too stoopid to have gotten much out of him by way of teaching. He was willing, but I was young and stupid. Doh!
 
You got time, Andy.

Relax. Beautiful stuff.

Be sure and sign the bottoms and date them...someday someone will be astonished on Antique's Road Show at the price they will fetch and wonder about the life of the maker.
 
WOW! Outstanding work Andy--I didn't know you were a 1st class woodchuck:thumbup: :cool:
 
Rob, thanks bro. I do want to stress that these were a joint project with a more skilled craftsman. I think I'm catching up, but woodworking is a patience based craft, much like blademaking. I am certainly a neophite. It took me months, and many discarded parts to get these right. Also, there are errors that are hidden too. LOL.

Kismet said:
You got time, Andy.

Relax. Beautiful stuff.

Be sure and sign the bottoms and date them...someday someone will be astonished on Antique's Road Show at the price they will fetch and wonder about the life of the maker.
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Kis. They're signed. Plus, I have started gluing a carving in all the pieces as a signature. There is an alligator head glued under the table lid. Its just a rough carving. The chest has no carving glued in yet, but i've been cutting on a little elephant that I'm gonna glue into the corner. My carvings are crude and rough, but I like wasting away the hours doing that kinda junk.
 
aproy1101 said:
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"Are you a Normite or a faithful follower of St Roy?" 45-70

Swish... over my head. No suprise there. I'll have to google this one. LOL.
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Outstanding job. Your stuff will be in use several centuries from now. The Normite question might be over whether your tools have on/off switches on them. Norm on the New Yankee Workshop seems heavily into the 220v approach.
 
I have both type of tools and use both on every project.

You guys know me. There are very few ways I am a purist. Maybe except being pure bullshit. Even my opinion of purism is muddled. I really love Sarge's purist attitude and his projects. At the same time baseball purists are all about ruining the game, IMHO. (The wildcard game is a perfect example. It rocked the sport, improved the ratings, got more people watching again. Etc. They said the same thing about interleague games.)

Norm makes great furniture, and runs an intertaining show. There is something to be said of the convenience and safety of a hand tool though. So I'm purely behind both approaches. My most used tool is a Japanese dozuki saw. It can't be beat for making knife scales.
 
Nice! I need a half round table about 24" in width, 10" deep, waist high on a tall guy please.

Gonna go against a wall...

Seriously...beautiful stuff Andy!
 
Beautiful work. That chest with the walnut trim is heirloom quality. Anyway you could sponsor a furniture pass around?;)
 
Andy, any man that can work in steel, leather, and wood is ok in my book. Very nice work bud. :thumbup: :)

Steve
 
Thanks guys. You guys are how I'm learning the leather, and steel work. Take the credit. I got no other source. LOL.

Boy does a furniture passaround sound expensive and work intensive. A packing nightmare to be sure. I am going to get back into the furniture shop soon. I need a chest of drawyers something fierce, and I won't accept anything with dayumed MDF in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the furniture pictured is.... SOLID HARDWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Try to find that out on the market.
 
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