Midden Musings

Laminated oak, birch dowels, elm seat and hand shaped oak legs.

Elm seat oak for the rest with simple carving in head rest.

All elm stool made for my wife when she was pregnant. She continues to use it some 30 years later when working on her computer.

Stained oak framing and stand made for customer’s screen.

Three elm tables or stools joinable with jigsaw connections. Finished with linseed oil.

The customer had three tiles she wanted in a set of low tables.

This beech slab required levelling and shaping to eliminate rot and cracked knotting. The legs were slightly steam bent. It was definitely designed as I progressed.

The oak was jointed and then the legs were cut out and shaped. Legs are finger jointed to the slab with a connector underneath.

The slab tops are finger jointed to the leg and shelf arrangement. The half moon inlays are cherry.

Customer had oak slabs for the table top. I designed and created the trestle leg arrangement. I then exposed the whole table to ammonia fumes to darken it for a linseed oil finish.

The desk top is a wonderful slab of ripple sycamore. The sides and drawer fronts were also in ripple sycamore with the sides concave shaped.

Customer had slightly wormy butternut he wanted fashioned into a bar for his recroom. I designed and created this complete with foot rest.

A simple cabinet for all things bathroom.

The column supports a shower including an oak rail for the curtains. The diagonal oak sits on the roof slope of the adjacent part of the house. Inserted an open shelf arrangement for various utensils. The bath sits on an oak support surround.

Oak, maple, cherry and ash were used in this wet sink counter situated in a room with a toilet and chest of drawers. The counter top is oak.

Same counter with a better view of the end panel and the top.

A simple framed counter with spalted birch top and barn board cedar sides all linseed oiled.

This plate rack was designed and sized to display the heritage plates in the picture.

This paddle is made from walnut and cherry. Can’t work all the time. This paddle gives us opportunities to get out on the waterways.

A blue stain sets this hutch off. The fronts and trims were made with birch while the carcass was made with ply.

This stand is made with oak, has a swivel top with a carved post.

This cabinet was designed to fit into an unused cupboard. It was made with fumed oak and contrasting sycamore door panels. It definitely was a challenge to fit everything in and required a flying buttress leg support for the book shelves to be able to accommodate an amplifier.

This cabinet was commissioned by and is in one of the local churches.

This customer wanted their kitchen cabinet doors and drawer fronts redone. These were done as simple panelled frames in elm.

This unit is made with pine and given a yellowish urethane finish.

This glass fronted corner cabinet was constructed with ash, cherry and oak giving colour and grain complementary detailing.

This was an all oak cabinet with simple lines and designed to accommodate specific equipment, albums and tapes.

This was an all cherry sleigh bed with shaped footboard panel to match the leg shape.

This bed was constructed with recycled oak for the legs and framing with cedar slats in the head and foot baords.

This customer wanted to hide a storage area with a sliding wall finished in a Japanese style. The framing was all in maple and the white screen was a clean house wrap.

The hollow columns were specifically designed to show strength and to accommodate the shelf supports. The columns were made with red oak and the shelves were a red oak ply.

Cord woven to create a seat in a similar way to caning.

The table top is yew with walnut ends and ash legs. It has been oiled.

Loose tongue corner joint in birch.

This bed is constructed with beech. Both headboard and footboards have yew slats.

Dovetail joint into table top.

This is an example of the quality of jointing I strive to achieve.

I made a number of various sized birch picture frames for this customer.

Made with elm.

Cherry and ash bench with wood joints.

Seat slats slide in and lock in place with dovetail connections.

Straight back detail.