Today was the day to Set Off... Ready Set Rocket. We spent most of the day delivering and installing the tables. It was a pleasure and we are very appreciative of a locally based company's use of local merchants and local products. They're a great group of people. We had a blast RSR and thanks again!
Late night welding
We have our vintage tractor seats covered in leather. Very very nice. Up late fabricating the table legs for RSR.
Chocolate brown leather seats
Maybe walnut leather seats with matching walnut backs!
Getting done!
Four tables down and two benches to go.
We have been working on readysetrocket.coms new gear and it's coming around. All glued up and ready to go. Tomorrow we start sanding.
Walnut table refreshed for a delivery tomorrow.
All I see is opportunity!
While working on desks and benches for RSR, paid a visit to one of my iron buddies and he had a yard filled with goodies.
Getting them all squared up!
Taken from an old building but too much for me.
Now this is more my style - @ 240 lbs. psf. it weighs in at more than 400 lbs. I guess I can leave it...Wow!
There are 4 of these spring pipes in the scrap container. These are all coming with me. Already thinking of all the uses.
Too busy to blog!
Working hard, all day and all night. Seven days a week. Four tables, two stumps, and two benches.
Cutting the legs and planing the beams from 292 Fifth Ave.
They are quite handy
Stools and Stumps are always great to have around the house.
Walnut stump going to a great home.
Triangular tricycle stool, Sandy Oak
The perfect seat!
Jessica needed a "little something" to use in a specific spot in her home and found it at the Flea this afternoon!
Who needs sleep when you're living your dream.
Shop life - Working on walnut triangle tricycle stools for Mark and spraying a Fir table and benches as part of our ready made line. Oh so nice.
Fresh coat of oil, wipe it off and do it again.
Finishing touches on the stools.
How nice is that?!
The Center of American music and American car manufacturing, here come a few pieces from the center of the world!
Amy and Brian's tables are finished and ready for Detroit. Thank you very much for supporting local merchants.
Oh, and yes still working sanding some Fit tables getting ready for the flea.
They are almost ready for Patina.
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...