Author Archives: joel

I built a corner shelf to go at the end of this run of cabinets. It has always felt a little unfinished, and I think this shelf really rounds it out. I even managed to get the color to match! Now I just need to find something to put there.

Here are a set of bowls I've finished over the last couple of weeks, that I've just now gotten around to taking pictures of. In order, they are: apple and white ash (first image), white ash (second image), a great big white ash bowl, over nine inches in diameter (third image), apple (fourth image), curly pyinma (fifth image).

I just finished this sofa table to go behind the love seat in our living room. I built it from some red oak lumber I milled from a tree in our yard with my chainsaw last year. I left the slab top 'live-edge' (i.e., bark still on), and did the same for the apron. It's pretty dusty in this picture (it had just come out of the shop), but I think it looks pretty good all the same.

Here a couple of bowls I've made recently. The one on the left is from a chunk of spalted hickory, and it now sits atop our entertainment center in the living room. The one on the right is from a tree that fell across the path I cut in our back yard - which was actually the tree that got me interested in buying a lathe in the first place. I made it for Andi for her birthday.