The Flotsam Furniture Works

So it was pointed out to me that the toy dinosaur in my last post was not a useful reference as it was not to scale. Hopefully this remedies the situation.

Side table in black walnut (dinosaur for scale).

I built this mobile some years ago to hang above my daughter’s crib. I always loved the simplicity of it, and every once in awhile I think about doing a production run of them, then I remember how mind-bendingly frustrating it was to keep at all perfectly balanced while stringing the pieces together. Finding the fulcrum point on that smallest fin was like trying to balance a pin on the head of another pin.

Some walnut pairing well with walnut. That magenta hopsack doesn’t look half bad either.

A final few details of the slat bench in oiled teak.

A few more shots of this teak gentleman.

A quick peek at the latest custom piece, a slat bench in teak.

So I only recently learned that there’s actually a term for installing screws this way, where all the slotted heads have been aligned with each other. It’s called clocking, clocking screws. And all this time I thought it was called being a**l retentive.

Secret curves from a secret project.

Pattern matching is one of those things that requires a lot of work for it to look completely invisible. Upholstering this fella probably took a year off my life, but on the plus side, I think it cured my OCD.

Can’t get enough of that heathered wool upholstery.