PICTURE PERFECT HANDMADE

The only piece of furniture I have left that I made was too hard to get too, it was just a small shelf stool/table. So I dug out an old photo album and will share this one with you. 

1979,  Arcata, Humboldt County California, one of the most beautiful places in California. I produced the custom  furniture orders in a Redwood Burl factory.  What was nice about this is we used already cut down and rejected wood, some has been laying in the forest or washed up on the beaches for years and years. Ten and Twelve inch skill saws, routers, 7" disc sander, 4" belt sander,  and a huge old bandsaw that I secretly called the Emasculator.  It had a very nasty habit of throwing blades. Most of the shaping on the large redwood slabs was done with a chain saw..  

The only nails and screws used were in the drawer unit. Also used a smaller  sander both disc and finish,  and hand rasps to shape the front pieces of that. Everything else sat in mortises and then bolted together with angle plates.  Most of these went overseas, so they were designed to break down into individual pieces for packing in sea-land containers.

I called these, The Flintstone Line, but not in front of customers. . .

That is yours truly in a younger day, where I still had the ability to grow hair.

 

Monty Python are still funny after all these years, added the video. . .