Curly birch, satinwood, ebony
A desk with many secret drawers and compartments.
Walnut, butternut, white oak, ebony, and others
12 drawers, some in front, some in back, so lots of ways to use this desk
Douglas fir, cherry, curly maple, ebony, and 17 other woods, 2017
Interior painted by Carolyn Enz Hack, curly birch tambour, a drawer poking through a door, and three swing out drawers that unlock the door below.
Staved construction with fine ebony beads at the joints, and drawers opening everywhere. The top contains a Morse Code signature and date.
The three rippling drawers are a combination lock to open the wavy door below — by lining up the right colored stripes!
Pleated 2018 Curly birch, cherry, curly maple, satinwood, ebony and holly
Cherry, birdseye maple, crotch birch, ebony, holly
Plume birch panel with energetic dot/dash and ebony cockbead
Curly birch, rosewood, abalone, ebony, holly
Eskimo "sunglasses" panel with abalone inlay, crotch cherry leg panels
Wavy watery images, cherry, pear, apple, mother of pearl, crotch birch, ebony, paint
Birdseye maple, pear, rosewood, secondary woods (drawers)
Steam bent ash, Danish cord seat
Pear, ebony, holly
Butternut, ebony, holly and secondary woods (drawers), with "whale-tail" aprons and French feet
Ebony and holly corner column, ebony drawer cockbeads, and coved underbevel of the top
Cherry, rosewood, ebony, holly
Serpentine facade, of pear, bubinga, ebony, holly, secondary woods
Cherry, curly birch, ebony, holly, brass wire
Knobs inlaid with brass wire spirals, fine ebony bead outlining curly birch panel, and incised beads on drawers
Butternut, walnut, rosewood, abalone, ebony, holly — Asymmetry!
Bowed facade, 14 drawers, of butternut, walnut, ebony, abalone, secondary woods
Ebony corner and drawer cockbeads
Not so secret drawers
Wavy abalone inlay
Macassar ebony, rosewood, amboyna burl, silver, birdseye maple,
A drawer within a drawer, silver inlaid pulls
Curly birch, Mun ebony, ivory, gold feet and pulls, abalone
Sunlight glinting off the water, wavy edge and underbevel of top
Copper and brass feet gold plated, with bone bead transitions to the rosewood saber legs
Macassar ebony, cherry, satinwood, silver feet, bone pulls, mother of pearl. Painting by Carolyn Enz Hack
Tiara of Mother of pearl
Collaborating with Carolyn on the facade painting
Douglas fir, cherry, rosewood, bone, painted panels by Carolyn Enz Hack
Rosewood beads between Douglas fir staves
2 small drawers with bone inlaid pulls
Pulls with 7 facets
Different painted panels and ebony and holly "dentils" at top of case
A cabinet for music, of Engleman spruce, curly maple, ebony, secondary woods, abalone, paint details by Carolyn Enz Hack
Drawers piercing door
Shelves with fun edges, to store sheet music and musical things
A desk of pear, rosewood, paua shell, ivory, secondary woods, inspired by a trip to the coast of Australia
Wavy rosewood pulls, ivory dots
Rosewood with ivory dots and paua shell lines
A cabinet to store and display violins, bows, and strings — butternut, walnut, aspen, curly maple, Engleman spruce (back), rosewood
2 almost secret small drawers, dot/dash edge, and ebony bead "strings"
Playing with waves in the surfaces and edges, of pear, rosewood, aspen, bone
Douglas fir, ebony, Sitka spruce, jade, secondary woods
Faux malachite panels by Carolyn Enz Hack
Front apron of a demilune table, with dot/dash outline
Inlaid silver, abalone, banding, with a wake of mother-of-pearl filling small worm holes
Brazilian rosewood, birdseye maple, ebony and holly Morse Code inlay
Started in 1993, nearly finished. Old brick, granite foundation, slate roof. 24 X 36 feet
Plenty of natural light, many tools close at hand, cherry wainscoting, aspen floor
Farm harvested and sawed lumber for buildings and furniture
My Belgian workhorse Jazz, turning 12 this summer
For two years I have run a mentoring group for emerging makers
Hay art, spirals
Some of our crops at Abundance farm: Corn, oats, orchard, hay
Corn shocks
A special competition plane with an iron 8" wide
A private planing competition, pitting Lie Nielsen and Japanese planes. Guess who won.
Planemaker Inomoto-San (white kerchief), a Japanese National Treasure, with his stockpile of plane bodies