Serving Tray, Dark Frame
A wide field of figured hardwood inside a dark mitered frame, with cast handles at both ends. The center is one continuous run of grain, no glue line through it. That means the…
Log of the shop · 5 entries · Woodwork by a retired Navy Chief
A wide field of figured hardwood inside a dark mitered frame, with cast handles at both ends. The center is one continuous run of grain, no glue line through it. That means the…
A square board with softened corners and two dark stripes set off center. Everything on it is straight and parallel, so the eye goes looking for the middle and doesn't find it —…
Same stand, spalted maple. Spalting is the black line a fungus draws through a log while it's down — it's the map of an argument between two colonies over the same piece of wood.…
Walnut feeder stand with a drawer underneath for the scoop and the treats, so the whole operation lives in one place instead of four. Two stainless bowls drop into the top and…
End grain, which is the slow way to build a board and the right way. Every one of those little squares is a block stood on its end and glued back up, so the knife goes down…