It's been a while since our last blog posting, so we thought we'd post a few photos of recent and past photos that we had on our phones.  In the next few weeks, we'll post some action photos of work in progress, including shots of maple office cabinetry and a sapele wall unit.  So please stay tuned.

A wall unit in stained oak on the Portsmouth waterfront.
 Ready for stone work and finish carpentry.
Completed in July 2012.

Kitchen cabinetry construction and installation.  Almost completed.

A solid wood wine rack.  Part of a complete kitchen
cabinetry project on the Boston waterfront.
Completed in 2010.

One of a number of maple office cabinets completed
during the first phase of a project outside Boston in 2012.  

An 11 foot long window seat in walnut that also covers a laundry chute
in the foreground and a heating unit.  Completed in July 2012.

Walnut Window Seat

Just finishing up a project so we snapped a couple pictures of it for the blog.  The piece is a window seat, roughly 11' long, that does extra duty to cover a heating unit and laundry chute.  We applied a walnut stain to the piece to help unify the color of the various components.  The opening at the far right end will cover the laundry chute.  The openings for the grating were cut by CNC machine.

The seating unit. The opening at right will house a laundry chute.

Top unit with grating and seat panel.

Window Seat Cabinet

We've been working away on a window seat unit in walnut for the past few days.  The unit is about 11 feet long and we had a bit of a time finding walnut in that length.  The unit also covers a hot water heating element so we've cut grating slots into the base board and the top cover of the backrest of the unit.  Attached below is an action shot of Matt cutting miters on the long front panel of the cabinet.

Woodworking Time Out

As I mentioned in a previous post, we decided to take a couple days off from the woodworking to do a little fishing in Maine.  It was a nice break from the shop and we had a great time and caught a few nice fish.

Fishing at dark with the Jitterbug

Matt with a nice bass at sundown

Good one on the fly rod

The Hog Bass I promised in my previous post.  Matt kept his tip up.

Beautiful smallmouth

Another nice smallmouth

A big one on the old Fenwick

Kingston Library Photos

Bruce Goodwin from the Library Design Committee was kind enough to take some beautiful photos of our finished work at the library.  Thanks Bruce!  A few of the photos are posted below.

Kingston Library Project Delivered

Well, we finished up the Kingston Library project last week.  We delivered on Monday the 14th and attended the opening reception on Thursday evening.  The new building looks fantastic and is nearly complete except for a few touches of paint.  Amazing that it all happened on schedule!  We would like to thank the Town and especially Bruce and Lesley for thinking of us for the project and for supporting us throughout the course of the work.  We are happy to have the pieces finished and in the new library and hope that they provide years of good service.  Also, we'd like to thank Gary and Michael for their help during the project.  Here are a few last photos of the work, not exactly action shots this time:

At the opening with Bruce G.

The conference table at the opening reception.

The round tables and chairs ready for action.

Conference table top.

Cafe table and chair.

Small round table and chairs in study room.

Kingston Library - Almost Done

Our blog postings have been a little less frequent than we were hoping when we set this site up, but we've been busy finishing off the Kingston Library Work and haven't had much of a chance to come up for air.  All our woodworking is done for the project now and we are waiting to receive the work back from the finisher for final assembly.  New work will be starting soon and we'll be posting about that as well as the summer progresses.  Also, sometime in the near future we hope to get out on the water where I'll guide Matt to a few more HOG bass.  I'll post pictures of the fish, too, if Matt keeps his tip up!

Anyway, the library work looks really great and we could not have pulled it off in the time we did without the tremendous help that Gary and Matt's Dad, Michael, gave us.  We had a lot of fun with them in the shop and will definitely miss having them around when we finish off the project.  Here's hoping we see more of them around the shop and that we get to see the custom guitars and federal corner stands materialize in the coming months.  They are certainly more than capable of producing some tremendous work.  Thanks again.

Here are a few more action shots from the past couple weeks.

Oval top in birds-eye maple with the first coat of finish.  

Another shot of the oval top.  Nice.

Hard to stop looking at it.

Gluing the table legs to the columns.

The underside of one of the round tables.

A fuzzy photo of a completed round table ready for finish.

The final glue up for a cafe chair. 

Gary and I branding the chairs.  Fun.

Made in Rollywood!

Cafe table and chair ready for finish. 

Kingston Library Chairs - Cafe Chairs & Upholstery

As I mentioned in our blog posting yesterday, the upholstered seats are finished for the Kingston Library chairs.  So we snapped a couple pictures this afternoon and have attached them below.  Matt also felt a little left out in the last posting, so we staged a shot of him, attached below, posing with one of his cafe chairs, which are coming along nicely.  We also started gluing up the birds-eye conference table and the wood looks great!

A nice spring joint in birds-eye maple.

Matt and one of his cafe chairs under construction.

Kingston Library Work Continued

Well, we're still working away on the Kingston Library project.  The chairs are 99% finished, except for a little more finishing work and the highly anticipated branding event using our new branding iron (see photo below).  The upholstery work is completed and the seats look nice.  We still need to get a photo with the upholstered seats in the chairs.  I'll try to get one and post again soon.  The table columns have been turned and the cutting and fitting of the legs are well underway.  The tops are all glued up and are now with CNC Router Solutions in Dover to get cut into circles and the edge profiles shaped.  We've also scoured northern New England and the great North Woods looking for some nice birds-eye maple to make the conference room table top.  Our normal suppliers didn't have what we needed, so we ended up searching elsewhere.  I travelled to Rumford, Maine last weekend and visited Premium Specialty Hardwoods.  Nice selection of figured maple and other domestic wood, but they just didn't have what we needed at the time.  So Gary and I went on a road trip to Vermont where we finally found what we wanted.  We picked up a number of nice boards at a reasonable price.  We missed our turn on our way back and ended up crisscrossing through south western New Hampshire on a nice afternoon.  Good road trip and we got to see a part of the state that we rarely visit.  Really pretty.  I didn't get a photo of the wood yet, but will have to post one soon.  It will be nice!  Action photos of our recent work are below!

Our "BRAND" on a test piece of maple.

Michael at the lathe finish sanding the table columns.

Gary and I building the jig to cut the flats on the columns for the table legs.

The jig in action of the shaper.

Another shot of the jig in action.

Cutting the joinery on the table legs.

Chairs in the finishing shop.

Michael cutting mortises in the cafe chair legs.

Gary vacuuming saw dust off me after sawing a few parts.
I had more hair up there before this operation.

Windfarm on a ridge somewhere near Acworth, NH, I think.
Google maps was a bit sketchy on the phone in this area.