Works In Progress
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
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Vincent Van Gooh
New work for 2020    Wenge and Bloodwood
New small accent table - Zebra wood and Wenge
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Things are shaping up. the treasure chest toy box is becoming a reality.  
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New accent Table - Goncalo Alves and Purpleheart 

The best helper I've ever had.
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New Sushi Serving boards with fishbone onlays.
This is what I work on to break things up a little. It is definitely to cool, and great fun to build. 
Here's Oscar my Beagle boy. He has to rest his jaws before dinner time.
Staying with my Black and Gold theme. I'm working on another new table .
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     New joinery that I have been working on for a few years now. I believe it's working out great. 
Time to catch up on some family projects - Small prototype of a soon to be full size toy chest.
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New Table , Old idea I had a long time ago.
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Maybe life isn't about 
avoiding the bruises.
Maybe its about
collecting the scars
to prove
we showed up for it.
Finally, I've been wanting to build this table for years. It's well on is way now. 
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                                    I'm starting to take my wine and cheese serious. 
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Holiday Inlaid Serving Boards under construction
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Here we go ! This is going to be a massive purple bench.
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       The new Table     
How's this for texture.
Working hard, this is so much fun. This is the hardest thing ever, and definitely the coolest. 
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The screws are turning, the gears are grinding, and the pipes are layed.
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Purple, Purple, Purple, and a hundred or so inlays.
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I just had to make another sailing inlay. I sold my other to a very lucky man with great taste. I really like this one also, a lot. 
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​                                                   SteamPunk Coffee Table
​                               Cherry and Walnut , everything is made of wood.
            Cool corner joint - Butterfly miter lock - tight, perfect, Zebrano the most fascinating end grain in the world,   
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      Small Bench - 3 Joints, no mechanical fasteners as usual, just clean tight woodworking. 

looks like a new small table                             I'm going to put a drawer in the 8/4 top
New Joint - I call it a Cross Lock.

                                                                       I love this piece
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Time for some inlaid wood art
New addition to my workshop
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New inlay Art - Purpleheart with Cocobolo and Maple Inlayed, with a Bloodwood and Wenge Butterfly. 
Prototype table - Possible  new line of furniture, multiple level, different size tops . 
Using cutoffs and scraps, this table will be extremely  complicated, and still simple and clean. 
This is a small Accent Table with a Purleheart top, 16" x 16" x 24" 
Unbelievable beautiful solid walnut table, I'm adding inlays to take it up a few thousand notches.
New commission small lobby table ; The client wants color, so I'm using ; purple heart, leopard wood, and bubinga. 
New Acquisition - Peruvian Walnut - Soon to be a new coffee table 
​3'-6" x 3'-6" square 18" high with impossible joint on legs. 
"Don't think about art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, Make even more art."
Andy Warhol




Success is not a destination that you reach.

Success is the quality of your journey.

Black Limba mirror
Santo Mahogany round table with inlays - Have not decided whether to make this a reception table or a coffee table. Still thinking. 
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape whose who dream only by night.
Vincent Van Gogh