Miscellanous Side Projects

Its been soo long since I posted or kept up with consistently adding new projects. This is just a small handful of ones that I had on my phone when adding new posts!

The coolest kid around helping me build Momma's teaching podium...

Cutting board

Son's Bed

Stool for said bed

Dirty laundry Hamper

The frame for our motto around the house...

Art show project using a CSA grave marker encased in resin on a live edge cypress coffee table

Reclaimed heart pine door with cut out of alabama with our flag pained on another backing board

 

Live-Edge Cypress Table

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Some of you know I have been making farm tables, mantles and coffee tables for the last couple years. In that time I have found a type of table that I just love making. They are called Live-edge or Nakashima style tables. George Katsutoshi Nakashima (May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was a Japanese-American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement. George was, like many Japanese-Americans, placed into a interment camp in the 40's. During his time there, he was mentored by an older woodworker who showed him how to use wood in a more natural, organic form. The live-edge table was born. Here are some examples of Nakashima's work.

Here is my last one made for some ATL friends of mine...

It is made of sinker Cypress from the Chipola River. It was made of 2 pieces of cypress slabs, one pictured here.

When joined together, stained and finished, the top looks like this...