Gun Cabinet, Kneeling Bench & Doors

These pieces were done between 1979 and 1986. When I was young and idealistic, thinking I could conquer the world with art quality work. The two furniture pieces were done entirely by hand except for the use of a table saw for the initial sizing of the wood. The gun cabinet is made of Sassafras picked for its quarter sawed characteristics from material I was using to make a stairway and kitchen for a house I was doing at the time. The kneeling bench was originally commissioned as a gift to be given to Notre Dame but the man who commissioned it, died halfway through the project and his family squabbled over the commission. So I paid my first six's months rent in a new building with it and the owner donated it to a local church. Quite an ego deflating situation.