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This week’s question comes from Brad. He writes: Marc, I’m making a hall table out of lyptus and would like add a maple border to the book matched top. I think it’s called picture frame style or something like that…..with mitered corners…I have never done this before....
were responsible for the construction of many of the best known Greene & Greene creations. Now many of you may remember that I was attending a week-long class being taught by Darrell Peart at the William Ng School when I had an opportunity to handle, trace, and measure the original Hall fram...
I recently returned from seven awesome (and tiring) days of teaching at the William Ng School of Fine Woodworking. The first five days were dedicated to the Modern Hall Table, and the weekend class was focused on the frame. And believe it or not, the frame was the more challenging project to comp...
sheets of home-sawn afzelia wood (thanks for link Logan!) that I received from David Marks. You may find it odd that I decided to use solid maple as the substrate for the frame. I thought this would be a fun experiment, and when the rabbets are cut in the back, there won’t be any unsightly ...
This is the timber frame my wife and I cut under the sky while subjected to the South Dakota elements: extreme heat/cold/wind. It will be the home we built together, along with a small cast of others who would only steal some of our thunder if named (Dad, brother, brothers-in-law). Eastern White Pi...
For those of you looking to jazz up your “man cave” or “woman cave”, as the case may be, check this out. Bill in Ohio submitted these pictures of his table and mirror frame for a friend’s basement bar: Here’s a little background on my project. My friend, Karen,...
Well here it is folks: the Hall Frame reproduction. This was an incredibly fun project and was one that had a profound effect on me. Having actual contact with the original piece (made in 1909) and creating a reproduction in 2009 just made this project that much more special to me. As you can s...
The second and final part of the series focuses on the calendar frame details. We start by creating the front loading slots, then move on to creating the curve in the top rail, and finally we create the small pencil groove in the bottom rail. The frame is then glued up, the back panel is cut and in...
The inspiration for the frame was borne directly from Darrell Peart’s website (The frame is a gift to my wife). I intended to duplicate his frame (on a much smaller scale) for this project but decided upon a continual radius for the bottom rail. All frame joints are mortise and tenon with sol...
I now have some larger pieces of mirror looking for a new project. Needless to say, I had to order another mirror. The time pressure was on just a week or so to the wedding, everything was working out, and the project was nearing completion. All that remained was to trim the shelf supports flush...
The calendar frame is a project that highlights the joys of simple joinery. The frame pieces are held together with half-lap joints which are as strong as they are basic. The frame is designed to allow calendar loading from the front unlike traditional frames that need to be removed from the wall e...
As you can imagine, the birth of Mateo knocked my schedule for a loop! But I just can’t let this time of year go by without doing a holiday gift project. This year, I’m making a nice simple calendar frame. The one Nicole currently uses leaves quite a bit to be desired in its looks and f...