Joseph Bagley memorial frame

My good friend Andrew Bagley's grandfather, Joseph Sr., was a war hero. A B25 pilot at the age of 23, he was was shot down over the Yellow Sea while attacking Japanese warships in February of 1945. He never met his newborn son, Joe Jr.

He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star. Along with an old sepia photo, these medals were all that Joe's family had to commemorate their father.

For Joe Jr.'s birthday, Andrew commissioned me to build a frame for these precious keepsakes.



The frame is American Eastern Black Walnut, with a velvet backing board. I was very honored to help him with this present. And can't you see the resemblance?

JiC Palace of Fine Arts painting frame

Jeff's painting of San Francisco had been hanging in our house for a good period of time when I thought it deserved a frame.



The construction is padauk set into red oak.








Nice work, Condy.

Rural bicyclist frame

My roommate Nick returned from Vietnam a few months ago with a really nice painting by a Vietnamese artist he met. I hooked him up with a frame made from American walnut:



The edge profile is called a Roman Ogee.

Zebrano frames

For Mother's day, I built two identical picture frames for two of the best moms in history, Carol Millie and Sherry Conrads.



The frame and base are both made from solid Zebrano. They house changeable 12" x 9" prints, this one a Sherry Conrads original.