A comfortable and accessible art table for my daughter and her pals.
This idea has been in my head for a long time.
Perhaps the strongest way to attach a simple wood leg to a simple tabletop. The 3"X3" square steel tubing has been compound cut at 5 degrees and welded to a 6"X6" steel plate. The wood leg just slips into the square tube and is screwed from the side. Next time I will countersink the screws and paint them to match.
"Milk Crate" chairs made of cheapo fir plywood. Do kids need miniature chairs that resemble adult chairs?
My family loves our new Pegboard Cabinet. And for those of you who wondered why Tyler Johnson ate 8 cans of Spam last weekend…
Tyler describes how to cut your drywall.
http://www.tylermorriswoodworking.com/pages/pegboard-cabinet
Tyler and Karin have a 4-year old daughter, Olivia. Olivia likes to draw and color, like any other little kid. ?Plus, it?s important to us that she takes good care of her things and put them away properly.? So, Tyler made a recessed pegboard cabinet for her too. There she keeps her crayons, markers, pencils and pens. Sometimes her stuffed animals will hide inside too.
Recessed Pegboard Cabinet
Tyler got frustrated digging through his junk drawers at his house looking for the Scotch tape, AAA batteries, scissors, Allen wrenches,screwdrivers? ?But I can always find my screwdriver at my shop! Because it?s hanging on my pegboard!? Now, Tyler and Karin have a pegboard cabinet recessed into the wall in their hallway. There you will always find that screwdriver. You will also find wrenches, pliers, a stud finder, and a tape measure. You will also find some other non-tool stuff that is important but, ?never had a good home,? like, a deck of cards and spare keys.
This video depicts chair backs being cut. This is the back of Tyler Morris Woodworking’s Baltic Birch Chair. The Machine is a KOMO Nested Base Router at Brown Enterprises. This machine primarily produces cabinet case parts at Brown Enterprises but they programmed it to make these challenging chair components.
My shop neighbor, Michael Bashkin, is a nationally respected acoustic guitar maker. He recently won the local woodworking show at Sears Trostel Lumber. He generously donated the cash prize to the Haiti Relief Fund.
Michael's website is http://www.bashkinguitars.com/. Front view of multi-scale OM with Italian spruce top.
Brazilian rosewood back.
Italian spruce top with torched mango rosette.
Detail of Brazilian rosewood headstock with sandlewood veins. Torched Mango top-piece, bound in Santos rosewood and Holly.
Cutaway detail; Brazilian rosewood back and sides with Santos rosewood/ maple bindings and purflings.
Our friend, Jan Krucky, recently designed this vanity to fit inside a narrow hallway in his home addition. We built it using local, beetle-kill pine. The countertops are baltic birch plywood.
Beetle-kill pine is plentiful 'round here.
The side cabinets are suspended off the floor. The drawers open when pushed in a bit.
Jan and I boldly chose baltic birch plywood for the curved countertops.
In 2002, my friends Steve and Missy Levinger bought and rejuvenated the Armstrong Hotel in Downtown Fort Collins. They hired us to make 13 beds in this 1923 Historic Landmark Hotel.
Walnut platform bed.
Maple platform bed.
Maple with walnut canopy bed in the Modern Honeymoon King Suite.
The Levingers chose to preserve and restore as much of the building?s historic fabric and character as possible. The original storefronts and the 1940s-era neon sign were recreated from historic photographs. Crumbling plaster walls and ceilings were repaired, weathered wood windows were restored, the beautiful fir floors were refinished, and period hall doors and transoms were faithfully reproduced.
The customer, Mark Johnson, requested, “I need interior entry doors to be mounted with brand new sliding barn door hardware for my ultramodern offices.” Well, here is the result, lacquered birch plywood barn doors with clinched nails.
Two pieces of baltic birch plywood glued together. The front piece with the cut-outs is 1/2" thick and the full piece is 3/4" thick.
Back view with the clinched nails. We used special clinching nails from the oldest nail company in the world, Tremont Nail Co.
The nails have been driven through the front then bent (clinched) back.
Over the years we have made tons of cubby units like these to be hung above desks in modern, architectural offices. All of them were made of baltic birch plywood. Tyler loves them in beetle kill pine, do you?
Books above your head while watching TV makes you feel guilty.
All joints are offset by 1/4".
Optional doors with "push release" hardware.
We offer them in 3,4,5, or 6 cubby units. They will ship flat.
J.A. Henckels has been making knives since 1731! We have been making deluxe store fixtures for them since 2001. I wish they had called us sooner.
Another order of display cabinets for J.A. Henckels. We crate them up and ship them direct to stores ranging from Macy's in Manhattan to May Hardware in McCall, Idaho.
Logo on the bottom door. Notice the walnut dot on the far right. This indicates where the magnetic key must be located.
The retailer displays knives vertically behind top locked door. Knife block sets go in acrylic hinged boxes. The bottom locked door is for back stock.
We enjoyed shipping out our personalized recipe boxes this holiday season. Our neighbors at Craft Trophy deserve much credit. When we began our relationship with them 3 years ago, we were a bit reluctant to have our boxes engraved because of the potential for costly mistakes. We would like to thank Juanita, Jan, Chelsea and Shana for proving us wrong! They haven’t made a mistake yet and our customers appreciate their timely service.
Three hundred blackboard frames completed! New Belgium Brewery recently replaced all their old (up to 17 years!), worn-out and sometimes sticky, wood tap handles with new ones. All the old tap handles, over 8,000 of them, arrived at our shop in August. Each blackboard frame received 20 tap handles “snaked” around the frame. The frames are a great example of recycled art and are being hung in bars and restaurants across the country displaying “Tonight’s Special.” Thanks, NBB.
Loren Jones clamping on tap handles. Loren's been working at the shop for 3 1/2 years and has a 6 yr. old son, Leo
Steve Wright is the Shop Manager and has been working at the shop for 11 years.
Recycled tap handles.
Here are 3 of 12 pallets loaded up.
The first frame that I have stumbled upon. It's in Tasty Harmony, Fort Collins.
We completed a bed for Tyler’s daughter’s friend, Shirley.
Thanks, Emily and Brandon Weaver for a fun project.
That's big girl Shirley in her big girl bed.
We have built 25 beds over the years. This is the first with drawers. The drawers are 26" deep with full extension, self-closing glides. It's made of cherry.
We have a new brace style for our shelf brackets and corbels. Our Model 8 and Model 10 corbels and shelf brackets are available with convex braces. These are available in cherry, oak, and maple. Sorry no paint grade yet. We are very anxious for customer feedback and pictures for our Customer Galleries.
“My father is very old school. He likes roll-top desks and large wooden tables on which he can spread his work out. He likes mantle windup clocks and wooden filing cabinets. He’s never sent an email in his life and still thinks that talking to someone long distance is a big deal. He also keeps copious notes on what ever crazy idea that pops into his head on 3 × 5 ruled note cards. Last week I Googled something that was not wood related, but came across your website. It looked like you had some cool products so I started to check the site out. That was when I discovered your wooden recipe boxes that hold 3 × 5 note cards (both ruled and non-ruled!).
Well, I ordered one for the old man. It came today and I gave it to him. He was like a 5-year old at Christmas! It was one of those moments when giving the gift REALLY was the best part. He now wants for me to “take him to the internet” to see what other wood products you have. HA!!
Anyway, thanks. You made my day by making my dad happy. Oh, and I am very impressed with the quality of work. At first I was a bit skeptical of dropping $80 on a wooden box, but when I got it I saw it was worth every penny.”
A gentlemen asked for a beetle kill pine napkin holder to complement the beetle kill pine recipe box that he purchased. We decided to make a small batch of ten.
We buy 95% of our lumber and sheet goods from Sears Trostel Lumber. They are located one mile away from our shop in Fort Collins, Colorado. Sears Trostel Lumber stocks high quality lumber and allows customers to dig through the lumber racks in their 12,000 square foot, climate-controlled facility. Being able to hand select our boards is the very important, first step for building our high quality products. We are very proud to have maintained a great relationship with Sears Trostel since we opened our doors in 1997.
Recently they ran a newspaper advertisement for blue stain pine and included a picture of our recipe box made of the same wood. This same recipe box sits on their sales counter, and according to their salespeople, it has received rave reviews. Hopefully it has inspired other customers to build a project with beetle kill pine.
