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Outdoor Fire Table and Chairs

James is a new member and answered the call for a Feathered Piece of the month in September.  While James is a new member he is not a new woodworker.  It didn't take him long to get the itch to contribute.  His "piece" is a furniture set, including an outdoor fire table and chairs that he designed and built.  The plumbing and burner came from a kit but James did all the woodworking in red cedar.  Fitting the propane tank was a workaround.  The chairs required special tooling and upholstery.  In James writing, he is not shy about pitfalls and solutions.  You will read about a well organized process with loads of pictures.  Congratulations to James for participating in the process of contributing to the guild's community with Outdoor Fire Table and Chairs.

Further information can be requested by clicking James Goodwin.

This is Michael's first Featured Piece submission.  Among his other pieces, Michael designs and builds wall clocks (see his gallery at https://michaelbossin.com/).  Many of us design our own pieces from another furniture piece, an outdoor scene, a painting or other subjective image that caught the maker’s eye.  For this piece and other Art Nouveau clocks that he has designed and made, Michael was inspired by a book cover design in the “Glasgow Style” of the early 1900s.

Michael writes about his process starting from this inspiration and the intricate details that follow.  There is more than meets the eye with this construction.  And, apparently, Fine Woodworking Magazine thought so as well in its October 2021 issue.  I hope Art Nouveau Clock is not the last submission from Michael.

Further information can be requested by clicking Michael Bossin.