About woodworksbyjohn
I'm a retired woodshop teacher. I build one of a kind furniture pieces and custom picture frames. You can see some of my sell and carvings through my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/WoodworksbyJohn?ref=si_shop Contact me about your project -- always up for the challenge of unique work.
Seems as if the last two frames I’ve been commissioned to do are really large sized ones! Matter of fact, I needed to buy a couple of folding sawhorses from that purveyor of fine tools: Harbor Freight! The Tabernacle Frame … Continue reading →
Posted in custom profile, custom profile, Picture Frames, plunge router
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Tagged Charles Douglas, custom picture frame, folding sawhorses, Gilding Studio, Harbor Freight, jigs, Merle Band Clamp, miter reinforcement, mitered corner, mitered corners, plunge router, reesatelier
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In my last published post I had just begun to work on a Tabernacle Frame, an exciting project to say the least. If you recall, the plan was to first make the spandrel (gold leafed panel that surrounds the painting) … Continue reading →
Posted in Design Process, Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Hybrid Woodworking, Mortise and Tenon Joint, Picture Frames, Tabernacle, tabernacle picture frame
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Tagged 23gauge pins, Bondo for picture frame, crown molding, custom picture frame, dentil molding, haunched tenon, hollow chisel mortiser, quarter round molding, rabbet, spandrel, tabernacle picture frame
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A Tabernacle style picture frame has been on my “want to do” list for a long time and although I’ve had artists occasionally express interest in having one made, up until now it has just been talk. One of my … Continue reading →
Posted in custom profile, Design Process, Picture Frames, Tabernacle, Tutorial
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Tagged Christine Vallieres artist, custom picture frame, Design Process, MDF, picture frame, plunge router, tabernacle picture frame
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Quite a number of years ago I found a carving of a mirror frame on Pinterest and saved it. This was of a tulip and it’s leaves that wrapped around on side of it. The carving was by someone named … Continue reading →
Gallery Representation This is the most exciting thing to happen in October for sure, this is the first gallery to represent me since our move to Phoenix. The timing was just right, I approached the owner of the gallery; Phillip … Continue reading →
Posted in Artist, custom furniture, Kumiko, Mesa Arts Center Store
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Tagged 12kt. gold leaf, Anticus Gallery, Desert Mountain Fine Art, Diane Eugster art, Meyer Vogl Gallery, oil gilding, Phillip Payne, Phoenix Home and Garden, Plunge show, Scottsdale, sofa table
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This has been a productive month beginning with commissions for several frames and ending up starting another Kumiko box and a glimmer of hope to get them in a local art gallery. More on that when it happens, don’t want … Continue reading →
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Tagged biscuited miters, Christine Vallieres artist, custom frames, custom woodwork, Design Process, Kumiko, kumiko box, Sapele, Veritas small plow plane, woodshop layout, Woodworkers Source
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There’s a feeling you get when you complete a long project that is often compared to childbirth, kind of a let down that it’s over but overwhelming joy at the results. As an ultra runner that was a feeling I’ve … Continue reading →
