Hmmmm ... Looks like I've missed a couple of my 'turns' posting to this blog ... I have, however, been posting away on my own dorset custom furniture weblog for the last couple of months (years) .Below are some photos ... Read more
The other day I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was roped into helping my brother load a family heirloom bookcase into his minivan. This is a bookcase that my father got from his father who got it ... Read more
This is a shot of my 1956 Massey Ferguson tractor ready to move bags of sawdust down to the road. This is a sign that things are busy again in my shop. I used to compost my waste sawdust but the piles were just ... Read more
Hi everyone,Here's an attempt to get some activity going on the blog again. What are you working on these days? Anything new? A new twist on an old theme? An old twist on a new theme? There was a lot of interest ... Read more
As a custom furniture maker, I am often asked to make things in styles that may or may not be totally familiar to me. So, to make up for my lack of a formal art education, and to satisfy my ongoing curiosity about ... Read more
Last weekend I had the misfortune of having something on the motherboard of my computer malfunction. In less than the blink of an eye I had absolutely no access to my hard drive - a totally dead compute that ... Read more
The Obama's celebrated their wedding anniversary at the Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. a week or so ago.At the restaurant, they were among furniture that I made for the Hyatt a couple of ... Read more
I have been drawing furniture with 2 dimensional CAD (Computer Aided Design) programs for many years (probably 20+ ) and have always found 3D programs (where you draw the piece and rotate it to view it from any angle) ... Read more
Sometimes it's good to look to the youths, to stay in tune with what's new and fashionable in pop culture and design. My 11 year old nephew just sent me four pages from the new Potatery Barn catalog, featuring their ... Read more
Link to the show website belowIt's that time of year again .... Time for the Vermont Wood Manufacturers fall furniture show in Woodstock, Vermont ... I participated in the Guild of Vermont Furnituremakers booth last ... Read more
