another parsons table

 chris recently finished another parsons table for a client in new orleans.  the parsons table is a classic design form, (the link is interesting) and i wrote a blog post about one that will made back in 2010. this one is going to be covered in shagreen, which under current usage, refers to the rough skin of a southeast asian stingray. ...

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Frame and Panels, a way for building furnitures......

......offering many advantages:1) Panels are thin and allow to lighten the structure and save wood2) Frame can be jointed by tenon and mortice, a simple and sturdy way.3) We can add mouldings and raised fields.4) Panels are free of moving in the frame following the humidity changes.But have a close view in the following video:...

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N°1 Spiers Dovetail Plane

This post has written by Vittorio Thinking of metal planes I often think to Stewart Spiers I like much the side profile and handles, so I searched for a model; I found it on the Handplane Central website, so I adapted the draw for a 2 inches blade and tried to building the plane. I used Fe 430 steel bars (5x70mm) for sole and sides, joined the two...

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a claro walnut slab headboard bed

we finished this fun project yesterday for a client in northern vermont ... the headboard is a +/- 48 x 100" slab of claro walnut.  the design is based on the bed below that we made a few years ago for a client in florida.we started, as usual with a cad drawing and a mockup .. click the photos to enlarge them ..the client accepted the...

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