If you love it, is it work?

It has been a busy day and we are still at it, doing our best to make our clients happy and meet all deadlines. 

Placing the beams on the container and doing our best to keep them catalogued and protected. The little Towmotor is a beast! 

Super Storm Sandy Oak for the backs of the 12 chairs we are crafting for the Crown Plaza Hotel in NJ.  The chairs and tables are all from the same tree. 

Cutting out the shape of the backs. 

20 deep and ready to go. Stacked and stoked!

A little eye candy for you. Rock Star!

Started from the bottom, now they're tops...

We are reclaiming 500+  beams of Douglas Fir and White Pine from three buildings in Manhattan. The beams will be crafted into table tops for Aaron Harvey and the team (nicest people ever) at RSR for their SoHo office. We are very excited about this project. 

And it all starts with these great beams.

Yes we do that!

Got a call from a client who wanted to mill some trees he had taken down from his development property. We headed right over and WOW... nice, big, long trees to mill.

Right up our alley

25' Oak

Swamp Maple with lots of burls.   

Grown in NY, Headed to Motown

We have the pleasure of working with great clients who know exactly what they want and are ready to make a move to Detroit, home of institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Cliff Bell's (jazz club), Shinola (great bikes and watches), Grace Lee Boggs (99 year old civil rights activist) and so many more.

Currently we're crafting two tables for Amy and Brian just in time for their departure. You guys are leaving NY but you will always have a piece of it with you. We wish you lots of success and happiness in your new city.  Thanks!

Shop Life

Current projects in progress -  Live edge slab table for the Crowne Plaza Saddlebrook in NJ, along with twelve matching chairs. This was an old walnut tree from Oneida with many nails from which we fashioned a beautiful table with pretty patches. 

Milling Monday - 17' Walnut crotch, 39" wide and sporting lots of character. Milled at 3" thick.

We hauled this log back from Interlaken, NY and it took forever on that trailer. After a year and a half it's spalted and ready to go. We have three more big Walnuts to mill - stay tuned. 

The grain on this walnut log is absolutely amazing at 17' long.

The spalt is very impressive as well.

Finally moved and the equipment wasn't even working all that well!

Later that night...

Our ready made table and benches in their new home.  We are always thrilled and grateful to see clients so happy.

Sunday at the Flea

Our new line of "ready to go" tables and benches debuted at the Williamsburg Flea this morning.  Well received, this beautifully simple set was sold within a couple of hours to a lovely couple who are furnishing their new Brooklyn apt.  Gracias, Natalia and Birago!

Purple and Gold Tricycle Stools for a High School fundraiser.

Our Triangle Tricycle stools, hand crafted in our shop from a Central Park Mulberry tree.  It's a pleasure giving back for a great cause, St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, La. 

Mulberry has beautiful grain 

The Hyster H60C Forklift can carry 6,000 lbs. and is gas powered, but I love that old iron.

My Towmotor cannot lift this big, Black Walnut log and the Michigan 125 is too big for tight spaces. 

Might be added to my collection of big toys.  Hope there's room in the yard for it.

Creating a Pair of Custom Bed Side Tables

We were asked to make a pair of walnut bedside tables like one we had shown at the Brooklyn Flea.  Last Sunday, a rare day off from the flea, we spent it at our yard picking out and cutting the perfect walnut log for this project.

First up, identifying the appropriate sized log and moving it over to the saw on our newly acquired vintage Towmotor forklift.

A view of the log from its other side.  Must say the little forklift is quite a work horse!

Making the first cut.  Looking very good.

The cut is good and what is underneath looks even better.

We're excited about the beautiful grain and color.

They are now ready to go to the shop for some serious sanding and treatment. We think that our clients will be very happy with their very handsome tables.  Stay tuned for pictures of the final product...

292 5th Ave. Building Coming Down. Boutique Hotel Going Up.

More than 600 beams will be removed from three neighboring buildings.  12' and 24' Fir beams. We are trying to get as much as we can as well as elevator metal. 

Our Hairpin Legs Travel Far and Wide

This lovely DIY table was made by someone in Vaasa, Finland using legs she purchased from us at the Brooklyn flea and took home.  We think she did a great job.  Thanks for your patronage Maiju!

Sample Chair

This is a variation on one of our stools. I definitely like it.

Shop Life

Working away all day, every day.  Brooklyn barn door for Jordan Taylor Inc.,

four stools to New Orleans for a high school fundraiser (my alma mater). Purple!

Fabricating 12 chairs for one of the Crowne Plaza Hotels...  

Live Edge Oak Table Sandy Wood heading to Crowne Plaza Hotel in Saddlebrook, NJ.

10' x 38" x 2.5" and lots of love.

Walnut Cross Cuts

We drove up to Victor, NY to get some already cut walnut that was going to be used as firewood.  It will live on as cross cuts and stumps, but it's up to you to determine where. 

Barn Door... From Brooklyn

The wood comes from 211 Schemerhorn and the doors will be going to Jordan Taylor Inc. We thank them for using local merchants and local products. 

Old wood, new life... Just one of the things we do. 

Working on Four Stools for a Special Project

These stools are a donation to St. Augustine H.S. in New Orleans, LA. for Hampfest, an annual fundraiser for the school.  The Mulberry seats are to be yellow and the the bases will be powder coated purple, the school colors.  The Mulberry is Central Park Sandy wood.  

The base for the stools. 

Frames and Legs

Mirror frames and hairpin legs.  All hand made in NY. 

Spectacular woods and designs