Wall mounted Spice Cabinet

My latest shop project- a wall mounted spice cabinet of Oregon black walnut and cherrywood....for Marcella and Christopher's kitchen back in DC. It should keep their herbs and spices fierce and ready for all her new upcoming recipes.

Liquor Cabinet

Candy is dandy but a liquor is quicker. This is a white oak liquor cabinet. The tree cut-outs are helped by a lighted interior. The mid section lifts up and slides in to access the interior stone top. It measures 45" wide.

Bamboo Kitchen

All horizontal grain match-up

Upper open-through Bamboo shelves

The other side

Close up of the open-through shelves

Display Cabinets

E. Maple display cabinets for the Pacific University School of Pharmacy - they have lots of antique pharmeceutical paraphernalia to display. These were clean and clear projects. The tops of the cabinets have glass too, so as to use ambient light from above. Interior lighting can still be added if needed. The bill for all that tempered glass was more that I expected, however.

Oregon Walnut Credenza

from the workbench:

Here's an Oregon walnut credenza just about to be moved off the workbench and delivered to downtown Portland, OR.  I made some fun drawer pulls out of bloodwood. Also, as if the flames of sapwood aren't enough, there's an inlay of bloodwood vertically carrying through each drawer face. I always enjoy what I'm doing.

The Audio Visual Dovetailed Cabinet

Here is the front view. 48" x 22"d. x 36" ht.   The drawers below are sized to house DVD cases on edge. These are also hand cut dovetail drawer boxes - no drawer slides - just a box in-a-box design with waxed rails - loose enough for some wood movement. - very smooth.  African wenge wood pulls are hand made.

The finished dovetails

Take it from the top - Finished dovetails

In shop - furniture making

The in-shop workbench layout of hand-cut dovetails on cherry wood - very exacting.

CVG Fir Kitchen

This kitchen has a 9' ceiling and our CVG Fir cabinets feature full height doors. Horizontal grain matching seen here with the solid stock drawer faces is an important design issue. It is most often overlooked with production/stock cabinetmakers because it's expensive labor to keep track of that match. I enjoyed the custom wood microwave "trim kit."

CVG Fir Kitchen

CVG Fir kitchen - highlighting the baking center and prep sink.

CVG Fir Kitchen

Cedar Bench - Bentwood lamination

Bentwood cedar bench 2' x 8' - slats made from CVG cedar landscape bender boards; Brass base pedestals and tabletop / fire-pit cover made by Eric Canon Metals, a metal sculptor also of Forest Grove, OR. I had fun bending the 64 off the shelf 10' long cedar bender boards around an 8' radius form. Exterior white glue -Titebond II works just fine and is easy clean-up, but the process involves dozens of clamps and many set-up clamping sessions. Getting quality clear vertical grain material is key as is the case with any bentwood project, as well as lots of project patience. The finish is Linseed oil and turpentine - several coats. It's been a year since, so it's probably time for another coat. I like how the brass is weathering too.

Edge Detail

Mahogany edge detail

Fly Tying workbench

38" wide and 45" ht. -
This is mahogany - one wide board for the main work top. I had fun with the end panels
and the top edge ends. Even the little drawer faces are fishy shaped. I think my friend Tom will have plenty of room to get that Pheasant tail nymph going.

CHERRYWOOD STORAGE SHELVING/CABINET

Here's a modern rendition of a Japanese step tansu, at a hallway and staircase. This really does help organize within a busy passageway.

This cherrywood entry is for shoes and each door has locker type storage for school backpacks, soccer balls, and skateboards?

Pull-out spice organiztion

Kathy Vinton inspired me to do this. She always has such a fresh approach. Simple wood dowels work well herding the flock of spices.

Let's start with a good breakfast

Cheryl & Chris Hunter have a breakfast table now that will be even more comfy when seat cushions are soon done. This local Oregon white oak wood is from a Forest Grove neighbor - whose backyard tree had a few embedded tree house nails, but we cut around them just in time.
The butterflies are walnut which embellish and help hold things together. It's challenging working with air-dried "green" wood because of natural shrinkage, twisting and cracking but these effects also lend to a nice character - not found in anything but genuine, natural materials.

Cvg Fir Cabinet Door & Butt hinge

CVG Fir & Glass cabinet with butt hinges