A Blanket Chest for Ken

Steve working on the finishing touches for Ken's Blanket Chest done in Cherry wood.

Blanket Chest shown with a drawer and self supporting hinge. This piece will leave Steve and move up to our finishing room where Derek will hand rub an oil finish onto the chest to bring out the beautiful richness in color.

new life for an old tree

Ludlow Health Center

Mark from Springfield Hospital and Doug the craftsman from ClearLake Furniture standing behind maple conference table. The maple for the table was milled from the tree shown at the bottom.

This picture is of a wire that was embedded in the tree over 100 years ago when the power came from a hydro plant behind ClearLake.

Left to right: Brent, Doug , "Doc Joe" and Mark.

This is the new location of the Ludlow Health Center. The large tree in the back by the porch had to be removed to make way for the large addition. The tree was cut down, milled up, kiln-dried and turned into a 4'x10' conference table all right here in Ludlow. From seed to furniture!

A day at the lake

Paul making a piece of maple straight and ready to be made into a table's rail system.

Mark is laying out chair slats and shifting them so they will be all at the same plane. Then he squares them off and cuts them to length depending on the size of the chair.

Steve is cutting tenons on a side chest's door frame.

Jason pushing a pencil.