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Holiday pop up event at Clarendon Commons on Satur

Holiday pop up event at Clarendon Commons on Saturday 4 Dec 10-4. Come see fine furniture and delicious foods. I will have gifts for sale both small and large. I will be in front of some scrappy tech startup from Cupertino: Apple.

The fish table in ambrosia maple enjoying the oute

The fish table in ambrosia maple enjoying the outer banks sunshine on the Pamlico Sound.

The rocking chair is comfortable due to the free-f

The rocking chair is comfortable due to the free-floating flexible back braces that are made of thin laminated strips shaped on a pre-curved form. Here we glue them up and Jed clamp them.

May your Veteran’s Day 2021 memories be on targe

May your Veteran’s Day 2021 memories be on target.

As the famous Chinese philosopher Basho once wrote

As the famous Chinese philosopher Basho once wrote, “ If you don’t know, you don’t know.” Credits to @warfightertobacco

Do you even lift, bro? Arm day with some Bastogne

Do you even lift, bro? Arm day with some Bastogne walnut about to become dining chair arms.

A regular rocking chair has 7 flexible free-floati

A regular rocking chair has 7 flexible free-floating back braces and two rear legs. To make the rear legs more comfortable we trim the front insides (your shoulders and back) at 20 degrees. One of the legs is easier to cut than the other, so we add this handy guide to show us the way. How steady your hand is inversely proportional to how much time you spend sanding after your cut.

Glueing front legs flush on a seat require the leg

Glueing front legs flush on a seat require the leg to be an inch long for mechanical leverage. This piece will be cutoff later once the legs are glued.

Backrests. They start as coopered blocks and get t

Backrests. They start as coopered blocks and get to the bandsaw, then some more shaping and sanding.

Only in the DC area. A current rocking chair stude

Only in the DC area. A current rocking chair student who was involved in nuke subs was not comfortable with “about 2 inches” for a routing maneuver. No nuke would be. So I measured a completely arbitrary line for him to 1 7/16” and all ended well.

This is why our backrests are so comfortable, and

This is why our backrests are so comfortable, and these are all-day chairs as opposed to a #20minutechair. We Cooper the backrest so the staves are vertical for a much deeper curve. Like Alice Cooper, or DB Cooper, or Michael Cooper, or some rando Euro cooperer.

Spugnardi Hurracan cigar ashtray in live edge blac

Spugnardi Hurracan cigar ashtray in live edge black walnut.

Visualize an exotic car manufacturer who wanted to

Visualize an exotic car manufacturer who wanted to host a high-end outdoor event with big time customers and partners. They did not have an ashtray vendor and needed one in a pinch. The whole emergency/planning fable you learned in 7th grade. Behold, the highest-end cigar ashtray in the US called the Spugnardi Hurracan. Part 1/3

The mystical “rear leg adder block” helps make

The mystical “rear leg adder block” helps make a nice transition to the seat. To ensure a safe table saw cut we make the blade slightly lower than the block height. Then it’s bandsaw and jointer ops to make it perfectly square.

Arlington Arts Center in Ballston. Wow. Some prett

Arlington Arts Center in Ballston. Wow. Some pretty cool exhibits here along with some local vendors. Check out photo 3 for a fake IT booth highlighting consumer data exploitation. “Bureaucracy bends to the will of the artist”? Dang, some heavy words for a rocking chair demo. Yes, those are real LC Tiffany stained glass windows highlighting the Spugnardi furniture. Saturday 12-4.

What are you doing in Arlington on Saturday 2 Octo

What are you doing in Arlington on Saturday 2 October from 12-4? Meet local artists, and even a local furniture maker. I do not do pop ups frequently, like once a decade, but tomorrow it is.

It’s good to have these leg joints at 1/420” t

It’s good to have these leg joints at 1/420” tolerance. Bastogne walnut.

Six dining table rear legs marked up for trimming,

Six dining table rear legs marked up for trimming, post-band saw work, and getting ready for the mystical “adder block” to be glued up. This Bastogne walnut is beautiful.

Three ways to sculpt a wooden seat: CNC, a router

Three ways to sculpt a wooden seat: CNC, a router jig, or cold American steel. Grinding is the most personal. Check out this Bastogne walnut grain.

The seat needs to have 3” notches removed for th

The seat needs to have 3” notches removed for the rear leg joints. They need to be nearly dead square. Nice Bastogne walnut.

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