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.
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 →
As many of you know, working on a project begins with various bits and pieces and then after a long span of time you actually begin to see things take shape, that’s the case with the sofa table project. … Continue reading →
Lately I’ve been intrigued with the Japanese form of woodworking called Kumiko, you’ve probably seen the two boxes I recently completed using that technique as an accent. I’ve seen a few images of the Kumiko being used in furniture as … Continue reading →
Posted in custom furniture, Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Hybrid Woodworking, Kumiko, Mortise and Tenon Joint, YouTubeVideo
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Tagged Cherry, curved tapered legs, fair curve, handtool woodwork, hybrid woodwork, Kumiko, low angle block plane, mortise and tenon, sofa table, tapered legs
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I recently received an order for two picture frames from someone in the Portrait Artists of Arizona, they will be used on paintings entered into shows so that’s exciting! She asked for a fairly simple frame with a black finish. … Continue reading →
Posted in custom profile, custom profile, Hand Cut Dovetails, Hand Tool Woodworking Class, Picture Frames
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Tagged #20 biscuit, Birdseye Maple, custom picture frame, hand tool woodwork, hand tool woodworking, Kumiko, Kumiko jigs, miter joint on Sliding Table, Osmo Polyx, smooth plane, Timber Woodworking, Walnut
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