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Quilted Cherry Music Stand
Wood: quilted cherry and cherry
Dimensions: The height from the desk lip to floor adjusts from about 27” to 41”. The desk is 12 1/2” deep and 21” wide with a 2” lip.
Music & Book Stands
A music or book stand can be more than just a bland utilitarian item — it can make an aesthetic statement as it supports sheet music or displays a favorite coffee-table book.
Specialty Tables
Tables designed to fit and look good – with traditional joinery.
Seating & More
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Philosophy
As we spend more and more time in our homes it seems natural that we should create meaningful, pleasant spaces. But what items should we select to live in those spaces? Inexpensive, production line items? Or works items made deliberately by a craftsman — aesthetically designed and then shaped by the human hand?
I hold that having hand-made items created by a craftsperson you know results in a space filled with beautiful and functional pieces. Well-made items with hand-rubbed finishes age better than speedily constructed production-line pieces.
Perhaps William Morris, the 19th century designer and champion of hand-made work, put it best: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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The Significance of Locker #859
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Always great to be in the workshop while having snowy days outside!
Christmas Cabinet With A Story (with an update):
A customer came to me with a well-used high school locker door. It was locker #859, his high school locker in front of which he’d met the woman who would become his future wife.
When his old high school was being torn down, he asked if he could have the locker. One morning not long after it appeared on his porch.He asked that I build a walnut cabinet to hold shoes and boots as a Christmas present for his wife. We selected 85-year-old walnut for its rich color and character to match his home aesthetic. Because it had a unique hinge that was not supplied with the door, I sourced the special hinges it required from a Michigan company. These kind of requests are always my favorites and I loved making this for them.
The customer decided to repaint the door and had it powder coated black -- looks great with the antique walnut.