Gayus Wood

This functional piece is available in various woods and can be sized to meet your needs.

Im starting a new project! This is going to be a custom built in bookcase and fireplace surround, all out of cherry!
Im just starting so youll be able to follow this all the way through. The first picture is my drawing of the general layout of the project. The total size is going to be 20 wide, and floor to ceiling. Ill be framing in a new wall over the existing, because of some rough conditions on the existing. There is some stonework that needs to come out around the fireplace also.
If you look at the layout, youll find a larger opening at the bookcase area - this is to accomodate a flat screen tv mounted on a swing arm.

Ive bought a large amount of solid cherry from a local mill about a month or so ago, and its been acclimating in the shop. Today, Ive managed to get it run through the table saw and square up the edges. The rest of the week Ill be running them through the planer and joiner. The plan is to stain and finish as much as I can before I need to install anything. This will keep the amount of commotion in the customers house to a minimum.

heres a quick little project.  a little trickier than it looked at first, but happy in its new home now.  the challenge was to make a pair of tables for either end of a couch in a 30 degree bump out in a clients home.  we made a quick, screwed together mockup below to check our angles and used that to formalize the final joinery.  click the photos to enlarge them ...
 after placing the mockup at the clients home, we decided to make the tables an inch and a half wider across the front and added an inch and a half along the angled sides.
these two views show the challenges of the joinery more clearly.  the right angle joints were made with traditional mortise and tenons on the apron.  the pattern for the tops, with joinery shown on both sides to make a pair, is in the background of the photo above, with the grain orientation cut plan shown.
the angled aprons were joined with loose tenons cut parallel to the faces of the legs ... the tapering of the legs was the last thing before gluing them up and all legs read an inch and a half at the top tapered 7/8th" at the bottom.  clampng was a trick, and in fact, the angles were just fitted snugly, glued, pushed together and left to set overnight on the table saw in the picture below.
i sent this photo to the client and he questioned whether we actually had a pair of tables, or two the same,  i had to go look in the finish room to confirm that they were, indeed, a pair.  you figure it out.