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The Further Adventures of a Hydrology Table
Six years ago we salvaged a piece of local maple which had seen better days and repaired it with bits of epoxy filler...
Wedding Coasters
This project was an unusual departure for me: making something small in quantity. Specifically, we needed coasters...
Winter Commissions
The aftermath of Open Studios 2021 kept us busy all winter, with a series of commissions that curiously all involved...
Mini-Slab Tables
About a year ago we started on a set of mini-slab tables, inspired by a collection of small slabs that had come our...
The Small Cedar Chest
Last June I got an email inquiry from someone in Ohio. She had a small cedar chest imprinted Zlomke-Calvin Furniture...
Some Local Claro Walnut
Northern California has its own species of black walnut, Juglans hindsii, which is commonly called claro walnut. It's...
Repurposing Rosewood
A pair of repurposed rosewood benches that we made about a year ago have found a new home. At the end of 2019, at the...
A Token of the Live Oak Tree
In July 2014 I returned from a backpacking vacation to find a telephone message from an engineer I know who designs...
Oak Woodland Table
At an Oakland lumber yard several years ago, Evelyn and I ran across a pair of California native valley oak boards...
The Live Oak Tree Revisited
I wrote about this live oak tree in 2014. I found out from a local engineer working on a project near Napa that this...
Good Karma Cabinet
Telling the story of the Good Karma Cabinet, which sold earlier this year: This mahogany cabinet combines antique...
Finelines Tables: Draw a Crooked Line
This is a detail of our first Finelines Table, made in 2014. I have been gluing thin pieces of wood between wider ones...