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FURNITURE
Furniture Pictures
I have started building furniture again.
While serving in the Air Force I started designing and building furniture for my
hobby. I planed to retire and start making handmade furniture for my
second career. I did retire and build my woodworking shop, but as events
unfolded, I started building the inlay boxes. The boxes were immediately an
overwhelming success. I had orders for every box I could make, so I spent
all my time building boxes.
In 2004, Jackie and I reached another milestone. Our youngest child
graduated from high school; Jackie moved to a new midwifery position in Florida,
and I kind of retired again. In my new retirement, I balance my
woodworking time between building boxes and furniture. In 2005, I built
ten pieces of furniture, and will probably build 6 to 12 more in 2006.
My furniture style combines clean lines and fine joinery with a smooth soft to
the touch hand rubbed finish. I generally combine a light and dark wood to
highlight the joinery. I usually incorporate fine hand cut dovetails into
the design and construction. I always spend a lot of time hand sanding
every piece. I then seal the wood with penetrating oil to highlight the
grain and joinery. For the final finish I use traditional (not
polyurethane) brushing varnish, rubbed smooth with paraffin oil and very fine
steel wool. Finally, I apply and buff the furniture with hard paste wax.
On a typical piece of furniture I will spend about 1/3 of the time preparing the
wood and cutting the joints, 1/3 of the time sanding the pieces, and 1/3 of the
time applying and rubbing out the finish.
I build furniture slowly, by hand.
I have posted some
pictures
of completed
furniture. All this furniture is sold, but I've include prices to give you
and idea of costs. If you are interested in having me build a piece of
furniture for you give me a call and we'll talk.
I will use the
updates page to show work in progress.
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