Saturday, January 27, 2007




Hickory dresser/shelving. It is about 8.5 feet wide, with six big drawers(11.5X28 and 9.5X28, and adjustable shelving on top. However, all the shelves in the angled sections are fixed. The wood is hickory, and I did a Danish oil slurry finish. Slurry means that during the second coat of oil, you wet sand with a very fine grit sandpaper, and then again with an even finer paper for the third coat. The end product is is a thing of beauty. Even open grained woods like oak can be as smooth as glass. The whole piece was built in place, mostly due to the logistics of the house. (The piece wouldn't have made it to the third floor bedroom where it was installed.) It is such a joy to work with interesting woods like hickory, which has a very unique personality. Notice how I tried to make the individual pieces flow, like where it meets the ceiling, or the top drawer fronts. I tried to avoid abrupt color or grain changes at joints, so the appearance is that the board actually turns the corner. The drawer fronts will have antique style pulls, and I will update this post when they are on.





Mantles and Stairs- These are some projects that I did a builder. All they said was, "make them all different". So that's what I did. I just made up every one. I've included a set of stairs from the same builder. The shadowboxes on the wall are my work as well.