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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking Issue #166
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Robert Stanlaske
Stanlaske made this captain’s desk (15 in. deep by 19 in. wide by 9 in. tall) to fulfill his case-piece requirements at North Bennet Street School. After seeing a photo of the desk in Lon Schleining’s Treasure Chests (The Taunton Press, 2001), Stanlaske visited the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, where he was allowed to measure the original. Made of mahogany, maple, and pine with brass accents, the desk took approximately 400 hours to complete and is finished with an oil-and-varnish mixture. Photo by Lance Patterson
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Phillip Recht
Recht made this cherry cabinet with rosewood pulls (19 in. deep by 37 in. wide by 24 in. tall) as his door and drawer case project for a 12-week intensive course he took at The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. Designed to serve as a sofa end table, the cabinet has curved corner chamfers and surfaces in varying planes. It is finished with three coats of an oil-and-varnish mixture. Photo by Jim Dugan
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Richard Gies
Interested in furnishing their 1830 Quaker farmhouse with circa 1780-1850 pieces, Gies and his wife borrowed elements from three period pieces to design and build this chest-on-chest (21 in. deep by 42 in. wide by 70 in. tall). It is made from a primary wood of walnut and secondary woods of birch and poplar. Gies and his wife decided to work the fluted quarter columns into the design because he wanted to learn how to make them. The chest has a stain and tung-oil finish.
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Evan Cost
This briar-root hollow vessel is 5 1/2 dia. by 7 1/2 in. tall. "It's hard to get inspiration from a raw briar root," said Cost, "but I let the wood take me where it wanted, especially when I started running into the common problem of rocks in the wood." The vessel has an oil finish.
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