Sunday, November 9, 2014

Rehoused Guitar Amplifier Head Cabinet - Mahogany

The original housing.
 Components carrier removed.
 Dovetailed Mahogany housing mocked up.
Front installed, final sanding completed. 

Final pictures: 
Wired new toggle switch, status light, and volume control. 



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-J. Drew Silvers
Metro Atlanta
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Reclaim Western Cedar Headboard - King Bed

Preliminary layout.
 Final layout.
 Final layout after scrubbing and one coat of polyurethane.
After five coats of polyurethane. 
 Final with Basswood uprights installed.
Bolted into place. 


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Metro Atlanta
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Vintage Yardstick Table

These are two counter tops I finished with vintage yardsticks for Red House Global Brand Architects.


Each counter top needed about 130 yardsticks to complete.

The top itself was already made out of maple plywood. 

You can't just glue yardsticks down and call it good because most of them are varying thicknesses.  I had to run them through a drum sander two at a time to mill them all down.  After a few hours and lots of sanding dust, they were all the same thickness.

One finished up. 

See?  I told you I did two of them.

The finished products: 





I try to deliver everything I can in my 1963 Mercury Comet.
No, I'm not joking.  I use it like a pickup truck sometimes.
You know, instead of using the actual truck that is parked next to the Comet.
I make weird decisions sometimes.

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-J. Drew Silvers
Metro Atlanta
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Industrial Style Lamp

This is a lamp design I came up with and welded up out of 1" iron pipe, 3" box tubing, and 2" angle iron on a base made of heart pine.

The specs are in my etsy shop, which can be found here.









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-J. Drew Silvers
Metro Atlanta
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Reclaim Antique Door Tables

These two doors and heart pine beam sections were bought by a client of mine outside of Greenville, South Carolina.  She wanted one to use as a TV stand and one to use as a patio table.


I had to pull quite a few nails out of the beams.

The top image is the grey heart pine beam.
The second image is after a light sanding.
The final image is after a few hand-waxings.

The lock mechanism was all intact.  I took it apart because I wanted to see it.


I fabricated steel brackets to hold the TV stand together and used reclaim cedar planks for the bottom shelf.  Nothing off the shelf.  I was too busy fabricating to take pictures, but I should have.  Oops.


The patio table was welded together out of 2-1/2" steel box tube since it was going to live outside. 


Painted gloss black and bolted to the bottom.
Simple and practical design. 


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678-640-3973

-J. Drew Silvers
Metro Atlanta
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Coffee Table and Side Table For Red House Global Brand Architects

Red House Global Brand Architects asked me to build them a coffee table and end table to match the sideboard I built for them earlier this year (which can be seen here).
I was given creative freedom to design and build however I wanted as long as it matched the sideboard.

The goal is to make this brand new basswood look old.

I won't tell you exactly how I did it.

But I'll let you see the pictures.

The color is spot on to the sideboard I built, as well as the textures. 

Then I started cutting up steel.



And I welded up the table frames. The end table is higher than the coffee table by 4".

Completed side table. 


The coffee table is four, individual planks.

One of which I modified to put a piece of antique sheet metal on top of. 

The finished coffee table:


All of my tables in the lobby of Red House, in Alpharetta, Georgia.


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678-640-3973

-J. Drew Silvers
Metro Atlanta
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