This reader-submitted project shows once again that great projects can come from wood that someone else might call "trash".
I’ve been chatting a bit with the guys from Straight Line Designs, creators of some sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, yet always unique and custom furniture. There is a much more comprehensive publication in the works for everyone to enjoy, but I’m so excited about learning and sharing more about their shop, that I thought it might be fun to show you all some of their finished products! These can all be found on the Straight Line Designs website as well as their blog.
Head on over to Straight Line Designs to see some of the fantastic work they are putting together, and stay tuned to our blog and theirs for some updates!
Just as I was finishing up the construction of the end tables for our family room, it came to my attention that my wife felt that I should have built a coffee table to accompany them. I thought about this for…. Oh about 30 seconds and did what any woodworker would do. I said “Yeap, [...]
for Manufacturing Piano-fortes by The Society of Journeyman Piano-forte Makers is a fascinating book reprinted by the American Musical Instrument Society. It also includes a list of New York piano, musical instrument makers, etc. plus a translated leaflet of what German Emigrants should do when traveling to America from 1833.
The information contained is fascinating in [...]
Hey welcome back to my south Jersey shop. Today I hope to get the tops and drawers for the end tables built and installed in place. So far we have built the legs for the tables, cut mortise and tenon joints to connect the skirt boards to the legs and we have also created and installed the [...]
For Artisans Benefits Sign Up Share Home Blog About Us Back To CustomMade.com 07.21.10 : MaineFurniture.org with Mark McKelvey MaineFurniture.org’s mission is to promote the fine , timeless art of Maine made furniture . 8221 They say When life gives you lemons , make lemonade” . While life didn’t exactly give him lemons , CEO and Founder of Maine Furniture Mark McKelvey decided to take a tragic situation and use it for good . On a personal note , being a victim of arson myself , my heart went out to Mark as he explained to me that the catalyst which brought Maine Furniture into being was that his workshop was lost to a fire . Originally , the news reports said that this building was abandoned and no businesses were effected . Of course , this wasn’t true , and Mark sought out to amend the
Hey, welcome back. Today I want to talk about adding the bottom stretcher and corbels on the end tables I have been working on. But before I do, I want to correct an omission I made in the last posting. In that posting I talked about the fact that the upper mortises in the legs [...]
I restored the painted and grained secretary back in 1983, made of pine it was painted to look like curly maple and burl maple with a painted walnut desk top. It had been in her family and had a stamp ‘Saint George Builders Union’ inside the top of the secretary. I guess I didn’t see [...]
I have wanted to make one of these for some time now and at last I have an order to build one. I may have to make two as I like the design. The sailor’s sea chest was his seat, table, tool box, strong box, food locker and the only place on board that was [...]
A spinning wheel came into the shop today, made mostly of curly maple with an oak base. One spoke is missing, no pitman, the flyer needs repair and wire hooks, the whorl needs to be fit to the mandrel and one leg needs some attention. I need to repair the treadle replacing the missing or [...]
Sometimes these appear on the Internet as Civil War Surgical Scalpel, they are not, rather they are used to remove ink from paper or parchment. This is before the time of very abrasive flexible ink erasures. Gum rubber [natural latex] pencil erasures were available during the nineteenth century and are very similar to the Art [...]
Now that the legs for the end tables have been completed, it’s time to begin working on the remaining components for the end tables. With the exception of the single drawer that is mounted into the front face of the table, all of the remaining pieces are connected directly to the legs that we just [...]
in all its tatted splendor. These Bookmarks are made by a lady at the Park, they are tatted [fancy knot-work] on a tatting shuttle, like this one in dogwood. There are 51 round knots, one for each State and the District of Columbia.
The shuttle is made of rips of dogwood, drilled, carved and sawn to [...]