New Wood Projects
New projects continue to call out. Materials speak. People have needs. Something pops into my head. Some are just for fun.
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Cherry top “Couch Table”
This table is long and narrow and about two feet tall. Ideal for under windows or along the back side of a couch.
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Reclaimed Wood
In this day and age, old worn or broken things are often tossed away. Some of them have found their way into Peter’s shop where they are adopted or adapted in whole or in part into delightful new forms. There is often beauty hidden under the grime and detritus of years and even centuries of neglect. Peter has found wonderful boards drifting in the sea, in dumpsters, at our local transfer station, or left in a heap under an old barn. Some new materials appear in the form of short ends and scraps from larger projects. With simple tools the materials are freed and re-combined for a new purpose.
None of these items are perfect or precious but are instead meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Six Board Chest
This chest is hand built from pine boards recovered from an old house. The style is copied from an antique blanket chest.
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Antique American Walnut Gate-leg Drop-leaf Table
This table is substantially reconstructed from a broken heap of parts found at the local household waste transfer station swap shop.
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Travel Cases
These simple pine boxes are the structural interiors recovered from antique coach-top travel cases that were once covered in leather and lined with paper.
Porch Table
This table was found at the transfer station swap shop in several parts, paint peeling, soaking wet, and missing its drawer. It is reconstructed and finished with milk paint and coated with polyurethane. The top is delightfully warped!
High Chair
Hand crafted child’s highchair, sturdy and stable
Child’s Project Table
This solid cherry table was made by Peter about fifty years ago. It has withstood the test of children and grandchildren. It’s ready for another fifty.
Child’s Cherry Heart Stool
Solid Cherry stool that matches the project table above. Same age, matching wood.
Child’s Maple Heart Stool
Solid Maple stool made by Peter nerly 50 years ago.
Instrument Case
This box was once a storage case for some sort of instrument. Repaired and coated with milk paint.
Custom and Commission Works
Below are examples of prior projects. Contact us to discuss something you would like to have made.
Table to support an Antique Tray
This antique tray “painted” with butterfly wings needed to be securely supported. The table was built from repurposed Mahogany. The tray fits into a top recess.
Spool Work End Tables
Peter was given two shattered antique side chairs, both missing their backs. He added recovered pine wall boards to form tops to make a pair of tables
Corner Media Stand and Storage
A two hundred year old drugstore counter supplied wide mahogany for the tops and a variety of pine parts to construct this pair of custom stacking corner cabinets designed to fit in a difficult corner.
Fetch-it Wagon
This wagon is built from scraps of plywood and cedar balusters. The wheels were recovered from a broken stroller at the transfer station. It is intended to allow children to gather toys and tools at the end of a day of play.
