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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking Issue #164
Alan Reams
Working with interior designers and architects as his primary source of commissions, Reams collaborated with local architect John Gutzler to design and build this folding screen. Made of cherry, the screen (80 in. wide by 80 in. tall) was constructed in four equal segments with wooden hinges--an idea he got from an old issue of Fine Woodworking -- which allow the panels to fold into a stack. The 3/64-in.-thick laths that were used in the formation of the screens took three people to weave. The folding screen is finished with an oil stain and precatalyzed lacquer.
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Marie Kline
After signing up to participate in a local Artists' Open Studios event, Kline needed something to show: This curved trunk (22-1/4 in. deep by 47 in. wide by 22-1/4 in. tall) is what she chose to build for the exhibit. The piece, constructed out of maple and walnut, took approximately 540 hours to complete. "The trunk became a canvas for my freehand doodle designs," Kline said. It has a water-based satin-polyurethane finish with a black-acrylic enamel design.
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Steven Chase
Chase built this reading chair (23 in. deep by 24 in. wide by 47 in. tall) for a tall client who needed an oversize chair. The client also wanted the chair to have excellent lower-back support and arms that would support his elbows. Using the Sam Maloof style as a base and then working from the client's requests, Chase made the chair out of cherry with ebony plugs. It has an oil and spar-varnish finish. Photo by Samuel Johnson
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Keith P. Tompkins
"I like to create wood turnings that reflect my experience as a furniture maker as well as a turner," Tompkins said. In making this turned vase (9 in. dia. by 9 in. tall), he chose to use stave construction instead of the usual stack method to create patterns from the top to the bottom. Made of yellowheart, wenge, padauk, maple and ebony veneer, all of the joints in the piece involve compound angles cut on the tablesaw. The turning is finished with lacquer. Photo by Rick Becker Studio
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