Showing posts with label Heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heart. Show all posts

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Heart Pine Entrance Table

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This table was designed to fit an entrance area just inside the client's apartment. The client requested that the table be both elegant and feminine. We dialogued about a few of the drawings and pictures I sent her. The light design was a nice contrast with the strength of the heart pine, and this piece was a real plessure to build!


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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Heart Dovetail Fan


 


 


 


 


With the workshop mostly built, I’m finally getting to catch up on some of the half-finished projects that have been knocking around during that time.


We live in a fairly temperate climate. We run the heater a little during the winter, and though we have a window air conditioner stored in the attic, we rarely break out out. However, sometimes in the summer time it’s just warm enough that it’s nice to have a little fan going while we sleep.


I was finding that the noise from various fans had just enough something in the sound that it was waking me up. Charlene brought home a couple of allegedly “super quiet” fans, but many of those were more annoying to me than the cheap ones. Then I realized: I could just toss some computer muffin fans at the problem!


So I did. Which was fine. Although they were kind of set out at odd angles, and we kept tripping over the cord, and plugging and unplugging was a lousy way to switch the fan.


Whence this: Hand-cut (with the help of a drill press) heart dovetails, the back milled out on my milling machine. The pieces on that cross-bar slide back and forth as switches, you can turn on the middle one and the top and bottom independently. The whole fan assembly tilts.


Made of Maple and Koa.


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