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Quilting Room

Posted on by Andrew Roy Woodworking

​These quilters are serious. They have blogs, galleries, they have whole rooms dedicated to their fanatical craft (sounds a bit like woodworking) with cloth storage, display cases, recessed desks customized to house vintage sewing machines.

​This desk is humble by comparison.  Built from maple apple plywood with ample work surfaces for cutting, sewing and layout. The lighter wood was chosen to add texture to the painted room without drawing attention away from the quilts in progress. Hardwood walnut feet and aprons were added for warmth and understated contemporary detail and to lighten the look of the storage cabinets.

Bevels along the cabinet edges and desk tops and offset routed drawer pulls offer depth to the utilitarian piece. On the whole the desk will offer a comfortable and customized work space that compliments the detail of the quilters art. 

Slab Rant 2012

Posted on by Andrew Roy Woodworking

Way back in my youth, in 2011, I had some reservations to the idea of the wood slab table. "That isn't woodworking," I thought. It's just screwing a plank of wood to a base. Lazy sunday. You see, I spent 6 years learning woodworking way over in Boston and although George Nakashima's (arguably the forefather of slab designed furniture) workshop is also in New England (New Hope Pennsylvania) I had yet to build any slab furniture.

A couple of years ago, upon my move to Northern California I read Nakashima's book, The Soul of a Tree. It was interesting, romantic even, but I didn't get it. Nakashima seemed a little overdone, spent a little too much time listening to the trees ala Ferngully.

Then I got a slab of my very own. 

La Crema Barn Doors

Posted on by Andrew Roy Woodworking

Barn-style doors, designed by Von Saal Design Build in Napa, CA for La Crema Winery. Salvaged 17 foot redwood wine staves were scraped of crystallized wine residue, milled down, re-sawn and rebuilt. Great care was taken to retain as much of the burgundy wine tint as possible. Doors were built with generous mortice and tenon joinery and a true through crossbar (most are just nailed on across the panels) adding torsion strength to the door. Doors were finished with a rubbed-effect lacquer, bringing out the warmth of the burgundy and ambers in the wood. These giant doors - each one comes in at 8' 10" tall and 54" across - will be hung from an industrial steel track and serve as the entryway from the main tasting room to the VIP tasting area.