Jeff and Heather's wedding present

For the wedding of Jeff Condon and Heather Porter, I decided to build the happy couple a piece of furniture. After some consideration they chose a coffee table. The concept was all Jeff: he wanted the table top to be made of broken down wine boxes, which he provided, including the illustrious Opus One.



My mom completed the present by buying them a bottle of the famous Napa Valley vintage.



Mazel Tov!

Ski tracks coffee table

The dining room table needed a little brother. Partially thanks to leftover material, and partially thanks to renewed inspiration I decided to build a coffee table to match the piece in the dining room.



The material scheme is inverted, meaning the top is solid teak with an inlay of twin red oak stripes. The piece in between is a darker piece of teak.



The ski tracks were modeled in Pro/E, 3D printed as templates, and cut on a router.



This was the most challenging thing I have ever built, primarily because that shape requires the router cut across the grain, on both sides of a narrow piece ... it loves to grab and shred your part. I had to cut 6 red oak pieces before I got these two.

1919 Dartboard

After watching our 1880s-vintage drywall get chewed up by dozens of wayward dart strikes, I decided to do something. After making a few trivets, the cork collection had been steadily growing, and I did a little math and realized that I could surround both our dartboard and a miniature white board I picked up at Office Depot.



Fun house rule: if you hit a cork, you have to take a shot (usually, whiskey).

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.