Category Archives: Projects

Best of 2016

Looking back on 2016, I realized I had a year of fun and challenging commissions and projects.  Here is a collection of those.  

New Tool Cabinet

Happy New Year! Out with the old and in with the new, 2016 starts out more organized with my new tool cabinet. Why did I not make the time to build this much earlier??! The chalkboard doors will be very handy for doodling, too.

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Blanket chest in-progress

Frames of the front and back of cherry and maple blanket chest.Exploded view of front of cherry and maple blanket chestGlue-up of cherry and maple blanket chest.

Flipping a large walnut slab

Flipping big wood slabs takes a little creativity when working alone. Here’s a little video to show the process that I’ve worked out. Just me and 350 pounds of walnut.

Door handles

Cherry and walnut door handles

Finished door handles for a pair of interior doors I installed last week. These are cherry and walnut and about 9 1/2″ long. Photos to come of the handles and doors all together.

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Roots and Rock

Roots and RockRoots and Rock

Photo by Anne Raup

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Chair parts and shavings

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Last week I was shaping chair legs.  Walnut and white oak pieces of all kinds, shapes and sizes are piling up.

Revisiting a memorial bench

Revisiting a memorial benchA bench with a view.Grafitti in crest railRevisiting a memorial benchRevisiting a memorial benchRevisiting a memorial bench

During this unusually warm and snowless Alaskan January, I hiked out to visit a memorial bench I was commissioned to build and install in 2003. The last time I saw it in January, there was just a corner sticking out of a snowdrift, a little different this year. I’m happy to report that it is holding up very well after over 10 years in a very harsh environment.

Stool in the sunset

Cherry Stool at sunset on Turnagain ArmOverlooking the Turnagain Arm.Me and the cherry stool at sunset.

We picked a spectacular evening to get some shots of the stool down on the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet. Photos by Anne Raup

Walnut/white oak dining table progress

An overall of the glued-up lower base with double mortises cut to receive tenons of the leg structure.A view looking along the curved bottom rail and the hub/junction with the other feet.The angled top double-tenons on the leg structures for joining to the top rails. The other ends of these join into the mortises of the lower base in the previous photos.A straight down view of the hub that joins the curved bottom rail and feet of the table. The pencil lines are orientation lines for sculpting the crown of the rails through the top of the hub.