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Champion Chair

The late Roger Champion was the long time historic craftsman at the Weald and Downland open air museum, next door to West Dean College, an inspiration with whom I spent time. He designed and built a chair based on many aspects of rural construction, but notably with legs that were not socketed to the seat, but passed through and became elements of the upper structure. From memory, a photo and some imagination I built my version.

Thomas Hope Klismos Chair

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Chifferobe

Crotch Mahogany, paint and gilding

Plane Making

Jack plane. Dogwood and Island Mahogany

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Barrel Plane, Boatbuilding. Apple, boxwood and Island Mahogany

Molding plane. maple

Block Plane. Apple

German smooth plane. Maple and Cherry.

Lathe work

Cherry burl cup and apple cup

Paten and snack bowl

Kitty whisker caddie. Madrona

Knot a vessel. Vesuvius. Locust and resin

Large Fruit Bowl. Maple

Container. Spalted maple and Richlite

Forbidden Planet. Maple and Glass.

Snack Bowl. Dogwood stump

Bowl. Figured Apple

Salt and Pepper. Holly, Boxwood, Ebony.

Bowl. Walnut

Caution! Do not break seal! Box Elder from the firewood pile

Maple, rosewood, glass, resin

cocobola

Reliquary from the London Grove Penn Oak

Salt Cellar. High bush blueberry wood and boxwood spoon

The Revenant

A recovery

Architectural Restoration

1882 “Stick Style” semi-detached house. Had most decorative details, as well as decorative trim removed. Asbestos-shingled, overall-stuccoed; all removed and decorative details recreated from a few examples left on the block. New walnut front door copied from a house 2 blocks away. (Little Free Library!)

All work solely my own.

New Chest of Drawers

Bowfront Biedermeir take on Ohio Valley furniture

Cherry, Tulip, RichLite

Building a skylight. WoodenBoat Magazine

Part of a series of such articles for WB

Gordon Russell dressing glass

The entire upper assembly had been lost. I researched it through the Gordon Russell school/museum with help from their staff, and working from original drawings, recreated the ratcheted looking glass and support assembly. (Restored much of the ebonized stringing that had been lost as well.) English walnut.