Cat plaque - raised cats in a 'puzzle-look'.
Walnut weather station.
Magnifying Glasses in Bacote, Tulip Wood, and Wenge.
Turned mallets for shop use with bench chisels, etc.
A vertical paper towel holder in walnut. This is a bit oversized as
the towels rolls are getting bigger all the time! 
Box in Bubinga, finished in oil and satin lacquer - designed for Leather Punches. Shown in closed and open positions.
Box for orchestra conductor's batons. The wood is Sapele, with Treble Clef inlay (tinted epoxy) and flocked interior.
Marquetry picture. The kit came from Woodcraft
and included all the veneers necessary along with the pattern.
This is a box for the shop holding a Lee Nielsen Router Plane. The top has a
veneer of just a nice looking piece of scrap wood and the sides are curly
maple veneer. The red wood is Bloodwood and the black inlay is Ebony.
The inside is flocked in blue.
This is a Large Bed Finial (10-11" tall) reproduction. The owner could
not find anything
like it so needed one made. This required a joint effort along with a
carving friend Dave Wood. I did the beginning turning and Dave carved out
the beads on the edges - middle and bottom. Then it was back to me for the
finishing - tough to match an original stain and finish. The original piece
is on the right and the piece we made is on the left.
Holder for Ink Pads for scrapbooking stamps. And cabinet to hold rubber stamps for scrapbooking.
Plant Stand for Church outside alcove. Made out of cypress to
hopefully hold up to the elements.
Knotty Pine microwave cart - designed to look like existing cabinets.
Too bad the color match was done from memory, but this was for my mother-in-law
and she was
thrilled with it.
Entertainment center for large screen TV. The customer wanted it to be made in
the style of the existing trim work so it looked original to the house.
The ceilings were 9' and the unit itself is just over 7' wide.
The entertainment center needed large storage for a good collection of
DVDs and tapes. So each of the two drawers are very deep with
a floating box on top for
additional storage.
Holder
for plaque from graduating AIS students at Independence High School in
Charlotte. Will be sunk in the ground in front of the flag pole they
donated. The colors are IHS colors.
A
trio of bar stools. These were purchased because of the style but
the customer couldn't find them in the right height. So I added
4 inches by inserting contrasting wood (Bubinga) trimmed in ebonized
wood. The stools were then stained a complementary color and
topcoated.
Stepstool and wall-hanging blocks for little Jillian Alyse. The
stepstool has the middle name inlaid in 'gold' epoxy. The blocks have
raised letters as in childrens play blocks. 
Small finial duplication. The one on the left was the original. The
duplicate had to be stain-matched, distressed and 'aged'..
Childrens' toy train table. Has 2 large drawers on each side and
removable top. 
Stepstool for little Joshua Paul. The name part is inlaid
marquetry and uses Josh's middle name. 
Glass-door cabinet
for bathroom. This cabinet had to fit an alcove in the bathroom and
was painted to match the color scheme in the bath. The customer
selected some nice 'waterfall' type glass for the front.
After: 
Kitchen modification. The owner had standard oak raised panel
doors and wanted a complete new look - one that matched the kitchen table
and chairs, but still keeping an 'aged' look. So we painted the
cabinets brownish/red and black over top, sanding through for a
'rubbed' look. Then poly for protection and simple flat panel doors,
stained like the table.
Classroom shelves for 3-ring binders. The binders don't sit very
well on standard shelves, so round ones work out great. These are
portable and owned by the teacher so she can take them with her year to
year as the classrooms change.
Sorry this is so dark - makes the little guys look like
'devil-dogs'... This fence is hardwood and plastic lattice and
custom sized for an interior doorway. Just the right size for these
pint-sized dogs. The fence comes out of the supports for easier
storage and the whole thing is painted with clear polyurethane over
top. 
What started out as just a gavel became a gavel, sounding plate and
box. The gavel is bloodwood, ebony and granadilla. The
sounding plate is cocobolo and the box is brazilian cherry with bloodwood
trim and ebony accents. The top is quilted maple veneer.
A custom-sized cover for a kitchen cooking range. The owner did not
like their stainless steel hood and wanted a cover which could be
installed and later removed if needed and also matching their existing
cabinets. 
This is a small apartment-sized table for kitchen. It was custom
sized for the owner. As we failed to get a picture after the
finishing, we hope to get one soon from the owner. 
The owner here started out with white oak barrel staves that had been saved for about 25 years. Luckily they weren't bent in barrel shape, but did have edges cut on an angle. The pieces were cut to width and glued together and trimmed to a custom table size. The finish was a light whitish stain and coats of polyurethane. The table was mounted on a steel base and looks great in it's final place in the house (bottom 2 pics).
Another unusual request. This is a judges bench - prop - to be used
on stage in a choral setting. The bench is 'knock-down' so that it,
at the push of a couple knees will totally fall apart during the
performance. Looked good and worked like a champ for many
performances. 
This is pretty neat! The customer found an old trunk
with a picture of a little girl on it. The trunk was trashed -
totally worthless. There was also no worth to the picture, but it
WAS interesting, so we saved it and framed it. And yes, your eyes
are correct, the bottom of the mounted picture is not square. The
picture originally was out of square so we left it. 
Here is a maple bed. Not unusual in and of itself.
However, it was originally a crib (plans called it a Conversion Bed - Crib
to Youth Bed and then to Full Size) and was built by the child's
grandfather. Unfortunately, before the child grew into the full size
bed, Grandpa passed away. So we took the plans and created the Full
Size bed. The only original part was the crib headboard. The
tough part was matching the finish.
I'm getting ready to visit a couple of High School chums
(yeah - it's been over 40 years since we've seen each other!) and thought
a nice present would be in order. So I turned the Brazilian Rosewood
parts of these Wall Street II pens and will present them to the guys when
we meet!