My Projects

This was actually my quickest full project ever. Yes, it's a small piece, without any real complications such as drawers or stretchers, but finishing something like this in less than a couple weeks is a major accomplishment for a hobbyist with a young family.  I started out trying to do a design in Sketchup. I did manage to...

In November 2009, I had promised my mother that I would frame a set of four of her needlepoint projects. She had fairly specific requirements: the frame should be simple, but provide a way to put glass in front of the picture, but the glass could NOT touch the picture. This was a challenge I enjoyed attacking. I created four frames,...

My first piece of custom-designed furniture. A hall table with two drawers, mortise and tenon of aprons into square legs tapered on two sides. Body and legs are hard maple. Top is a center section made of forest green laminate over baltic birch plywood, with mitered cherry edge pieces fit on tongue and groove joints to the plywood. The...

In late 2008, I tried my hand at making small pendants and earrings out of wood. I made a whole bunch of them. They turned out so well, I decided to do more, but aside from cutting them out, I have yet to finish the next series. Here are four or five of my favorites from that first series. These are of maple, cherry, african mahogany,...

I visited Bilbao, Spain in 2000, specifically to go see the new Bilbao Guggenheim art museum. (I was really into modern art at the time, and Frank Gehry's architecture was still a relatively new thing then.) I bought a couple of ceramic trivet trays as souvenirs. Unfortunately, one of them broke in my luggage coming home. The red one...