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Woodworking Poetics

Making the Wing Table

 
Wing Table

 
Wing Wood

 
This is the raw material I used to make the wing table.  It is red oak recycled from the LAX Airport in Los Angles.  I think the boards were used like a chair rail to line the edged of the terminal so people didn’t dent the walls with their rolling carts and over-sized [...]

Wing Table

Details that took time and skill to create duplicated with the touch of a button just do not have the same appeal as the original crafted objects. The ornate crown molding on a wardrobe once represented the creator’s mastery of his craft and material. Today it represents an industry of mass production that has replaced [...]

 
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