My next few posts will be about Mark and Fran Berg's new home.

I met them a few years ago when they where building their Colorado home. I'll have to see if I can find a pic of the Huge French entry doors we did. Along with a couple of other cool pieces made with doors.

For this home, I built couple of pieces and a large built-in cabinet.

 My assistant Gustavo took care of their restoration work. He really worked over their dining table.

We started off with this pair of arm chairs made to match their side chairs for the dining table. 

                                                                         The Pair.

The upholstered version.

                                                                    More to come.

This was a fun project that was a three way collaboration with Brad Oldham, Whitesmith, and myself.

My part was the wood backplates.

Here is the basic shape with the top mounting holes drilled.

The back was relieved for a metal pan to channel the electric. I made a template for a pattern bit to set the edge then drilled the waste away with a forstner bit.

Here is all ten lined up.

 Polished up and ready for install.

                                                                     The finished project.

A couple shots of the hall.

That leads to this room.

I have had a few projects going since the Guitar showcases.

This is the start of a fun project that involved turning three framed Oriental prints into a folding room divider.

 A pair of legs with the start of the profile.

Lots of jack miters to cut on 15 pieces. I used a Festool Domino machine instead of a true mortice and tenon. It's faster and cuts a great fitting tenon every time.

Below I'm cutting the pieces to length with the crosscut sled on the table saw.

The actual miter cut set up.

Below is the first frame dry assembled. It is leaning against the oriental doors that I turned into a coat cabinet for another clients home I have been working on. Some neat  things to come with that project also!

One complete panel.

Found some wonderful  walnut at Hardwoods of Dallas for the solid panels.

The completed divider.

The back side has a faux mirror wallpaper on foam board inserted to cover the back of the framed prints.

 I have been working on a great project for a really cool client. Derek Vanlandingham was part of the team that originally decorated the home when it was built. It was fun to be back there doing this with him and Steve.

The challenge was to make a showcase to display a growing guitar collection on the walls of the pub.
We used the original base profile as a base to give it a built in look. A real simple molding at the top so we didn't take  away from the rooms carved chair rail. The hardest part was the 11/2 " stiles on the doors so that they lined up with the 3" stile of the walls paneling. The way the room was laid out we had 4 cases that held 3 guitars and one long case that held 7 guitars. For you guitar nuts, they where a mix of Fender and Gibson with a few Gretsch thrown in too !

                                                                            The Pub

The existing panels that became the backs of the showcases

                                The quatrefoil will have a small plaque describing each guitar.

We did a freestanding case to show off a pair of acoustics that needed a case of their own.

This is a case in the adjacent hall that houses some more modern guitars.

Thanks Guys that was fun!

Next on the list was another TV Lift cabinet. This is a pretty big one, an 80" Sharp with 6.5" of speakers on each side.

 I believe the overall length was 10' 6". About 50, wide barely making it through a pair of French doors to get it in the room. A little over  48" tall. The wood of choice was Walnut bleached to match the room.

No, those are not candles on the cabinet but sconces in the sitting area behind.

TV up.!

The round ends and open shelves help with the size. And its always fun to make radiuses moldings.

Yes, the room is big enough for it. Can you spot it now?

Have a couple of interesting projects in the works. One for a very unique piece of history.

So here is part 2. Let's see if it works  this time.

Here is the compass rose showing the boxes for data ports to be installed on site.

Finished drawers and pedestals.

Part of the last post that was giving me trouble was this video of the hidden drawers working. My thanks go out to Josh Pavliska for his work on the drawers. Some of the electronics and switching that enabled it all to work is voodoo to me.

 The drawers are held shut with an electromagnet system from Hafale. A spring on the drawer back pops it out when the power is killed to the magnets.

With that done we moved on to the task of inlaying the bronze signature ribbon. Hart, the sculptor who did the work for Brad Oldham helped me lay it out. then it was four days of intense routing, grinding, and carving.

I started by clamping the piece then scribing around it with an exacto knife. This left me a fine line that I could see flake away when I got real close.

Laminate trimmer with a 3/16 bit to start.

 My set up. Laminate trimmer, Dremel, Die grinder to ease the edges of the bronze, exacto knifes and a dovetail chisel where the tools of choice.

A few pics of the corner detail. The first one is before the patina was applied.

                                    Thanks Emily, I don't know how we are going to top this.