Making Furniture

[Egon]

You fellows are making me feel real inadequate with all those pictures of properly assembled wood. Maybe I can up the mood and start a project next month.

I do not use an Alaskan Mill. Mine is the adjustable "Egon" version of an edger. Not to brag but it is much easier to use than an edger [ I have one ] because of the Taller Vertical Support and the ability to make more than one cut per setting.

 

[Michael_E_Tx]

Hey Scotty.

Nice looking furniture. I would call your morris chairs, the lamp behind the morris chair and the cabinets, arts and crafts. Would you? I'm very fond of arts and crafts furniture. I like the simplicity and form of arts and crafts furniture very much.

I restored quite a bit of American arts and crafts furniture in my career,Roycroft, Gustav Stickley and his brothers, to name a few. It was challenging and satisfying to deconstruct and rebuild such sturdy furniture.

Mike

 

[Michael_E_Tx]

Hi Egon.

What a wealth of lumber you have. Furniture is nice. But that is virtual nest egg. Better than money in the bank by my values. I'm sure you will find your inspiration to build as time goes by, and wow, what a selection you can choose from.

Mike

 

[scott_vt]

Hey Scotty.

Nice looking furniture. I would call your morris chairs, the lamp behind the morris chair and the cabinets, arts and crafts. Would you? I'm very fond of arts and crafts furniture. I like the simplicity and form of arts and crafts furniture very much.

I restored quite a bit of American arts and crafts furniture in my career,Roycroft, Gustav Stickley and his brothers, to name a few. It was challenging and satisfying to deconstruct and rebuild such sturdy furniture.

Mike

Mornin Mike,
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the bookcase is a reproduction Stickley piece. The Morris chairs where originally built by William Morris, an english furniture maker. I have a great deal of respect for these individuals !
Simplicity and functionality were the theme ! As you can tell in some of these pieces I am not a fan of high gloss finishes. I like using an oil finish after staining to the desired hue. Im not one to ruin a beautiful piece of furniture by glopping copious amounts of high gloss poly on it

Although in your line of business your job was to restore the pieces to their original splendor. That may have very well entailed a high gloss finish. On certain types of furniture it looks right. All Im saying, is thats not me

In any event, I wish you were closer so you could share some secrets

Merry Christmas !

 

[Hosskix]

Man, some really talented people around here!

I'm not near the finisher that some of you guys are, but I like the "rustic" furniture look, so I guess that's a good thing.
While visiting a friend that builds log homes in the Hill Country a few years ago he took me to his "demo home" that was decked out with cedar furnishings and trims.
I fell in love and started doing some of the same. Remember, I LIKE the rustic look!




Not really furniture, but in the same vein as above:


And a work in progress:

 

[K7147]

Mornin Ken,
Some very nice projects ! I really like your coffee table ! I love makin sawdust, its alot if fun in the winter months. I will try and post some of my projects.

BTW I also made the School House clock above the Curio cabinet.

Hi Scott!

You do some beautiful work! I particularly like that toolmakers chest. I’ve scrounged a few old ones at flea markets over the years and none to compare to that masterpiece!

Ken

 

[K7147]

You fellows are making me feel real inadequate with all those pictures of properly assembled wood. Maybe I can up the mood and start a project next month.

I do not use an Alaskan Mill. Mine is the adjustable "Egon" version of an edger. Not to brag but it is much easier to use than an edger [ I have one ] because of the Taller Vertical Support and the ability to make more than one cut per setting.

Egon,

Ok, that looks like a nifty “Egon Special”! The first time I used the Alaskan chainsaw mill I thought I’d have a coronary from the effort! Then, I looked down at the measly stack of cherry planks and realized that they get 12 bucks a foot for this stuff in California and realized I had about a thousand dollars worth of black cherry planks for about four hours work! Of course, I had no energy left to actually lift those planks onto a trailer bed!!

Ken

 

[K7147]

Man, some really talented people around here!

I'm not near the finisher that some of you guys are, but I like the "rustic" furniture look, so I guess that's a good thing.
While visiting a friend that builds log homes in the Hill Country a few years ago he took me to his "demo home" that was decked out with cedar furnishings and trims.
I fell in love and started doing some of the same. Remember, I LIKE the rustic look!




Not really furniture, but in the same vein as above:


And a work in progress:

Hosskix….WOW!!

Your work is absolutely beautiful! Your “rustic” and my hand rubbed varnish goes to show that there are many ways to reach a nice result. One local fellow is what I’d call a real master wood craftsman. He finishes an absolutely perfect project and then hacks away at it with a small hatchet and a blowtorch so the tourists will pay double the price for an “antique” piece of furniture…..I think you are on to something!!

Ken

 

[Hosskix]

Thanks Ken, there's a reason I like the rustic look...
I don't have the patience that it takes to make something like that coffee table.
Truely a beautiful work of art.
Maybe someday I'll actually take my time and create something like that or like Scott's toolbox.

 

[meledward23]

Thanks Ken, there's a reason I like the rustic look...
I don't have the patience that it takes to make something like that coffee table.
Truely a beautiful work of art.
Maybe someday I'll actually take my time and create something like that or like Scott's toolbox.

Any time you need to practice, you can come up to my place. Your stuff looks nice. I have 12,000 board feet in my barn (plus or minus a few hundred feet) of rough cut, oak, sycamore, gum, poplar. One of these days I will slow down and learn to do something with it. I was orginally having a house built, and planned on hiring a pro to finish out the interior to the max. Life changes, plans go away, I have a ton of wood.