This section contains work underway or recently completed. In most cases I haven't photographed the pieces with studio lighting etc., so the images may be a bit rough.

Side table for jewelry display with eagle feather motif inlay

This table allows the silver and turqouise bracelets to be removed and worn. For more information on this table (which was mentioned in Western Art Collector) see the full write-up here.

A cabinet on stand.

Walnut and mahogany table with turquoise inset. See more pics here.

I occasionally do repairs. I recently repaired a bad modification done on a church pew with the holes filled with poorly matched putty.

I removed the putty and filled the holes with plugs and then recreated grain lines with dyes and shellac. One or two finish coats of sealer and the holes will be close to invisible.

Whew. Finally. A bunch of tables finally complete for the High Country Conference Center. Eight in all, all different. Built from salvaged wood. See all the tables and the whole story here.

This one is done! See the final result here.

This was a fun one! Clients wanted an outdoor couch suspended from the porch overhang and able to move forward and back depending on how close the fire the weather permitted! Notice, no legs! And maybe more importantly, the flip-up wind glass holders.

This one is done! See the final result here.

A table symbolizing thunderstorms in the Southwest, done for the Flagstaff Arboretum. They asked me to be the featured artist this year for the annual Soiree so this is what I made for them.

This one is done! See the final result here.

An Art Deco inspired bent laminated wood hall table. Walnut and maple make great contrasting woods, both in the top and in the medallion on the open end of the table.

This one is done! See the final result here.

This formal dining table is done in cherry and pencil stripe sapele (for the turned columns and the panel frames on the pedestals). The fan inlay on the top is walnut and holly. The hardware comes from a supplier in England that makes historically accurate castings of original hardware, Optimum Brasses. Enjoy.

This table was awarded Best in Show (Wood) at the 12th Annual It's Elemental Fine Crafts Exhibition!

Whew, been a busy stretch with shop repairs/improvements, 4 repair jobs, and family visits out of town but here's a recent piece. I had drawn a twisted leg in my sketchbook years ago and occasionally revisited the idea but recently I stumbled across a picture of an Art Deco table with the same idea, so I thought it was time to make it happen. I call it the Oliver table because of the twist. All walnut and the legs twist 90 degrees. The twist is carved.

A few months ago I finished an oak demilune table for a client and along the way I documented some steps in the build process. If you'd like to look inside the custom building process, check them out here.

February 2012

Finished up a table for the local American Cancer Society fundraiser. See it here!

I've been playing with small boxes lately (while doing some renovation on the shop). A nice change from bigger pieces. See some of them here.

JULY 2011 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLE GALLERY HERE

A demilune (or halfmoon) table with features reflecting the native softwoods of Arizona, but executed primarily in hardwoods (cherry and mahogany). A real challenge to get the apron inserts to lie flat since they are bark slabs from dead pinyon pines.

JULY 2011 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE SMALL ITEMS GALLERY HERE

A fun little table devoted to those halcyon days of science fiction, the 1940s.

MAY, 2011 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLES GALLERY HERE

Walnut writing table

A table top made from a single slab of a walnut tree. The tree had died and stood in the owners yard until cut for furniture grade lumber.

FEBRUARY, 2011 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE CASE GALLERY NOW.

An Arts and Crafts style sideboard. This piece was a collaboration between myself and a local stained-glass artist, Dick Coast.

NOVEMBER, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLES GALLERY

Heart table

Almost finished with this one. The heart outline in the base of this oak table is made of many thin layers of laminated oak bent around a form and then glued in place. When removed from the form, the laminated pieces maintain the shape. This allows the creation of curved piece without creating weak points that will occur if a single piece of wood is cut into a broad curved shape. The bun feet are lathe-turned.

I can see this one will be hard to photograph. These quick images suggest the heart shape is not symmetrical on a left-right axis which is not the case. Lighting is even more crucial here than normally.

OCTOBER, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLES GALLERY

A star map, if you will. The disks represent the nine stars that make up the Pleiades star cluster. Their sizes represent the brightness of each star as seen from Earth. Their relative locations are accurate as well. The legs are stylized versions of 1950's versions of a rocket ship. When I started this table, the Pleiades were directly overhead in the evening.

SEPTEMBER, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE SMALL ITEMS GALLERY.

A low profile stand to hold a charging cell phone, camera etc. There is also room for a waste containers underneath.

SEPTEMBER, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLES GALLERY.

Started work on a burl table. A burl is one of the lumpy growths you sometimes see on a tree. It looks like some kind of tree tumor. If you open a burl, there is a wonderful variegated swirling pattern. Additionally, because the grain is tightly interlocked, burls tend to be quite stable. Thus, tabletops of burl slabs typically don't split and crack like most slab tops. To contrast with swirly organic top, I built an angular base. I'm still working on this one and will probably use turquoise inlay in the top to fill a few voids.

JUNE, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLES GALLERY

I was playing around with some more left over pieces from the mahogany table and started carving one; much to my surprise a leg appeared! The rest is history...or evolution? In any event, the result was a crab table.

NOTE: this table is currently for sale. Please contact us if you're interested. It can be shipped.

JUNE, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE SMALL ITEMS GALLERY.

I had some cutoffs from the mahogany table (see below) that were intriguing. And, lo, this lamp appeared.

JUNE, 2010 THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE TABLES GALLERY

I had a beautiful, but short, piece of walnut, probably Claro Walnut, but it is uncertain. The slab had a live edge, or an edge that had not been trimmed by the sawyer. It had great figure but was too small to make a full piece out of. I cut it in half, length-wise, and glued the halves together, back to back. For an accent I inlaid a strip of karri, a species of eucalyptus. The base is from old mahogany salvaged from a barn in El Paso, Texas.

JUNE, 2010, THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. SEE THE FINAL VERSION IN THE BEDROOM GALLERY

I'm currently working on a headboard with two matching nightstands. The wood is very interesting; it's karri (or Eucalyptus diversicolor) from Australia. This wood was imported into the US decades ago to serve as mine timbers. Karri is extremely hard, almost twice as hard as red oak. A fellow woodworker bought several unused timbers decades ago and sawed them into planks. He is a professional woodturner and didn't have time build something for himself. Recently he and his wife (also a professional craftsperson) asked me to build this bedroom set for them using the karri.

The front of the nightstands is made of several laminations of karri bent around a form and the drawer front is cut from the same lamination, allowing the grain to continue uninterrupted across the front. Below you can see the initial 3D sketches used to generate the plans from which the pieces are built. The headboard has a removable upholstered panel, allowing a fabric covering to be used which matches other items in the room.

Sketch of nightstand for clients