Built In Studio - Oblique Shelf

Oblique Shelf
Solid Walnut and various colors

 These shelves were made in tandem with the Stealth Shelf.  They were designed by Built In Studio's and built by Wishbone Woodworking.  Please check out more of Built In's stuff on their website:

builtinstudio.com

For such a simple looking shelf these were a real challenge to make.  Angles!

Built IN Studios-Stealth Shelf

Stealth Shelf
Solid Walnut with oil finish

These are a series of shelves that Wishbone made for our friends at Built In Studio.  These shelves are Built In's design, and we were the builders.  Please check out their web site:

http://builtinstudio.com/

 We made them in all sorts of colors too!  Fun project.

HEC (Home Entertainment Center)

A few months ago, my grandmother passed, and Tina and I drove out to Clyde, OH to attend her funeral.  On our way back to New York, we went through Warren, PA where Tina's mother grew up.  Warren was once a major supplier of lumber for the US.  Now not so much.  But there was one mill still open and we went to go see it.  It was awesome!  And one of the woods that they mill is Curly Maple.  It is beautiful, and so interesting to look at.  I had to buy some.  We got the guys to cut the pieces down so they would fit in the rental car, and we brought them back home.  Now they are the doors to our HEC.  Maybe soon they will also be a bench for the kitchen table.

 I like this because it's so small.  We've always been annoyed at how the TV becomes the center point of a room.  For the most part, all of our electronics fit inside, as does our small DVD collection and also some of the coffee table books that normally take up too much space on the table.

 Generally speaking I'm not very good at colors.  I don't understand how they work together, or why they don't work together.  But Tina helped out a bunch with this, and I think that it came out pretty good.  The exterior is a unassuming grey...It'd be nice to do this again with a lacquer finish.

3 Kings Tattoo

These are some small cabinets that we made for our friends over at 3 kings.  I thought I would post them so that if you're ever in there, you can say "Damn!  Look at that storage!"

 If you're in NYC and want a tattoo, the people here are the best.  Please check out their website

www.threekingstattoo.com/

You may see some of Max and I's work.

Walnut End Tables

End Tables

Walnut, Maple, Purple Heart, and brass watch parts

Tung Oil finish

This pair was built to go into the same living room as the Ouija table.  The crescent shape is solid brass that came out of an old stop watch.  The brass pieces work so well with these table because they go with the Ouija Coffee Table.  A lot of the imagery on the Ouija board itself looks like the crescent shape. 

The interior of the table is a drawer box that is just big enough for a magazine or a nice print.  It make a functional display case.  The purple heart is fun to work with, and it makes a nice subtle accent.

Oak Coffee Table

Oak Coffee Table

Oak and Mahogany

Tung Oil finish

This is the first time that I inlaid a key.  In hindsight it seems a little risky to make your first attempt in the top of a solid oak table, but seeing as how this one is for my house, it's just fine.  I'm getting better at inlays.  Maybe a wishbone sometime soon.

Floating Ouija Coffee Table

Floating Ouija Coffee Table
American Walnut and Curly Maple
Tung Oil finish

The Ouija table that is in the middle of this is custom made by a wonderful artist named Florian Bertmer.  Please check out his blog here

Tricky joinery makes the whole think look like it's floating.  Thank you James Krenov for the inspiration.

Every piece has a slight curve to it.  This is something that has always seamed very daunting to me, but once getting my system down, they went pretty smooth.  This is what they look like as I rough them out on the band saw.

Once all the legs we close, I used the large belt sander to get them a little closer to their final shape.  This is a new tool to me, and I'm learning all this great stuff you can do with it.  Anything with a curve becomes very easy to sand with this machine.  Also, this helps with some more of the sculptural aspects of wood work.  Curves are fun because they aren't as rigid as angles.  It's real easy to get carried away.

These are all the little pieces with all their mortice and tenons.

CLAMPED!

Walnut Entertainment Center

Entertainmanet Center-Walnut
Hand rubbed oil finish



This project was built and designed by Wishbone Woodworking but I can only take partial credit on this.  Max was the main builder for this project, and it came out so nice that I wanted to post it here on the site.





Behind the doors are maple cabinets with adjustable shelving for DVD's and storage.  The doors are on touch latches and open easily with a bump to the doors.

Kitchen Table

Kitchen Table-Maple and American Walnut

Hand rubbed Tung Oil finish

I feel like making a kitchen table is a big deal.  Its always been something that has intimidated me since I started building furniture.  Families are made around the kitchen table.  The conversations that are had, the delicious food that is served, the homework and science projects that are done around a table make memories for a life time.  I hope that the family who now owns this will thrive and prosper, and maybe, this table will be a pretty thing that stays with them for a long time.






This is the clamp up for the table top.  It was done in three steps to make sure everything stayed flat and equal.

This is the mortise and tenon that holds the legs to the table top.