2023 Show Gallery

A shaker style three drawer hall table in Curly Maple, Bubinga and Curly Cherry. Woods—cherry, Birdseye Maple and Curly Maple. Top finish—50/50 mixture of Tried and True Varnish Oil and Spar Varnish gloss. Top is made of a unique single board. Birdseye finish is Lacquer. Top is sanded to 2000 grit. The base is construct- ed with mor􏰀se and tenon joints for the leg to apron connec􏰀ons. The top front rail has a drop-in dovetail and the lower rail has double tenons. The drawers fea- ture handcut dovetails with pegged dadoes in the rear.

Tradional Style

$2700

This Table was designed as a display table for some antique Christmas Ornaments. The top is made from a Magnolia Burl which came from a storm damaged tree in the Houston area. The base is made from Genuine Mahogany. The slim legs are double tapered and splayed, the top is mounted several inches above the apron to add airiness to the piece. The idea was to provide an elegant base that did not detract for the highly figured top. The table was filled and finished with three coats of hard wax oil.

Dimensions: 46” long x 18” wide x 36” tall

Emerging Artist

$1800

The Lux Coffee Table is a unique piece of furniture utilizing off cuts from Austin School of Furniture classes. The design is built around offsetting the legs and moving the shelf out of the same plane as the top to create a surprising experience for the user.

Solid hard maple forms the modern pill-shaped top hovering above a shop-sawn maple and plywood shelf. A subtle shadow line separates the shelf from the beech frame, which is joined with morse and tenons. The joinery of the coffee table frame is angled to offset the shelf from the top and to shift the legs slightly to create a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture that requires a closer look to fully appreciate. The coffee table is finished with a mixture of tung oil and polyurethane for a high quality, semi-gloss, protective finish.

Dimensions:60”x19.5”x17.25”

Contemporary Style

$2,125

This mirror was made from Walnut sourced from a fallen tree in Austin, TX. The frame was formed using a process called tapered bent lamination. Long pieces of wood interlock at the central joint, providing stability. The design was inspired by the serenity of flowing water. Air Dried Texas Walnut, Oil Finish and Glass.

Dimensions: 15” x 35” x 1.5”

Contemporary Style

$500

This aviation themed lamp was inspired by the Golden Age of Flight and the Art Deco aesthetic. It was a period where daring record-setting flights dominated the news and aircrat evolved from wood to streamline metallic contours.

Our unique lamp features European Beech laminated with American Black Walnut reminiscent of early propeller construction. The sculptural base is evocative of airplanes of the era with beautiful flowing curves and a strong sense of symmetry. The wings are adorned with stainless steel roundels revealing a pop of color. The column is formed like a perforated wing spar rib and soars from the base as if taking flight into the clouds.

The lampshade replicates the diamond flight formation and features polished stainless steel panels with a perforated circular design to emit a starry light pattern. They are secured with a regimented series of screws resembling riveted panels. The lampshade spider is formed like a four blade propeller with a turned Walnut finial as the hub. A glimpse inside the shade will reveal a hidden tribute to four pioneers of flight.

The lamp is wired with high quality UL listed components including a nickel plated heavy duty brass socket along with a modern, but period correct, braided fabric covered cord and antique style phenolic plug. The dimmable bulb is an energy efficient LED (8.5w 60w equivalent) with vintage Edison filaments and produces a 3000k warm white color.

The wood finish is multiple coats of a European hard wax oil that has been hand rubbed to a satin sheen.

We enjoy the challenges that arise from working with different materials and then combining them together in an unexpected way. This one-of-a-kind heirloom quality luminaire was produced with meticulous attention to detail using the finest components available to create a stunning work of functional art suitable for any settng.

Dimensions: 32” Tall with a 13” x 18” Shade and a 12” x 12” Base

Art/Contemporary Style

TimberFire Studio $4,500

Looking Left is the fourth in a series of Walnut and charred Palm pieces with a similar shape. The second in this series - Looking West - was a blue ribbon (Fine Woodworking) winner in the 2020 TXFM show. Looking Left is sculpted from Walnut, Purple Heart, charred Black Palm, and Gold leaf. Curved grooves flowing with the grain were cut into the wood, and are highlighted by gold leaf. Heavy gouge marks crown the piece and a series of hand carved tiny gouges highlight the lower section. The Purple Heart wood is an interesting pop of color against the rich Walnut and the charred Palm

Art Style

$1300

This is a double door chest incorporating nine drawers. The material is burl mesquite, minimally sanded to accentuate the grain of the burl. The finish is Waterlox Tung Oil..

Dimensions: 28” Wide x 15” Deep x 24” High

Traditional Style

$5100

This little broom and dustpan are carved from a single piece of cocobolo wood. The broom has black Tampico bristles. The dustpan is jointed to handle with big fat dovetail joints. The pieces were sanded down to 12,000 grit sanding cloth and simply finished with micro-crystalline wax

Dimensions: 7.25” W x 38.5” H x 8.5” D

Art Style

$2700

Angles are the focal point of this distinct design. The top is made of book-matched walnut slabs. The base is made from 6” walnut laminated beams cut into long tapered pentagonal legs. A crea􏰁ve approach allowed for the strong joinery holding the legs on their acute angle.

Contemporary Style

$5250

The contemporary style chest of nine drawers is constructed from figured maple. The maple used is further featured by the ambrosia beetle that bores into the wood producing a fungus which causes a distinctive staining. The design of the chest is my own with input from my brother who commissioned the piece. The offset drawers required a special interior structure to allow them to float in a pattern. The chest is designed for a contemporary house built in the Hill Country from local Texas limestone. My brother’s wife wanted the wood color to match the limestone walls. The wood is only slightly stained with Danish natural oil and then finished with hard wax oil. Many thanks to my brother who spent many hours helping build the chest and agreed to lend it to me for this event.

Dimensions: 72” Long x 22” Deep x 32” High

Contemporary Style

NFS

Curly red oak case with hand cut dovetails paneled and trimmed with flamed maple from various violin, cello and upright bass builds. The left door features stacked magnetic racks for organizing carving tools such as gouges and chisels. The right door features a dual magnetic rack for large crank neck and pattern maker’s carving tools. Above that is a saw rack and space for mallets, hammers and luthier knives. The main case holds a full set of moulding planes across the bottom shelf. The drawer is designed to be removed and has handles. The plane rack is on hinges and reveals some ”secret” storage. Above is the inner cabinet with ample space for layout tools, glue, etc, with a magnetic scraper rack to the left and a file rack to the right. The cabinet is finished in hand rubbed oil varnish and is designed to be hung on a French cleat.

Traditional Style

$11,000

Inspiration: The “Wings of Victory” idea comes from a 1918 black and white Art Deco drawing by French artist Erte. A client and friend showed it to me from a small black and white Coloring Book and asked me to make a piece of furniture out of it. This inspired me to spend the next several months of my life designing and making it for her.

The Story: The year is 1918, it’s the end of World War I and the entire world has been through turmoil unlike anything the world has ever known. Clearly the storms of war are still visible below, however, lighter clouds and sunshine are beginning to overcome the darkness and the storms of War are slowly subsiding as the light once again overcomes the darkness. Victoria,“Goddess of Victory” stands high on a mountain top releasing what's left of her Warrior Eagles to once again return to their homes and families to live in peace until she must summon them again.

Design & Execution: I only build furniture that has meaning to me; my thoughts are, if it doesn’t have meaning to me how can it have meaning to someone else? I always start with the marquetry first and it seems to guide me in my decisions for the design of the piece of furniture. I started designing this in September of 2022 and completed this cabinet on April 12, 2023 often working 12 hours per day and many times 7 days a week, not because of a deadline, not because of money but because of my passion for making this piece.

The Cabinet: There are 233 individual pieces from 31 different species (Natural & Dyed) of real wood veneers from all over the World that make up the Marquetry Art on the three doors. The cabinet is of Solid Black Walnut. The lighter background wood is African Avodire (pronounced Av-O-Dur-Ray). I chose this wood because of its beautiful chatoyance (light shining reflection) and used it in sunburst patterns on the front and back of all 3 doors to mimic the rising sun’s rays. I put solid Black Walnut beading under the top and bottom bands that hold the doors to give it that Art Deco look that was all the rage in 1918.

Features: There are two curved (bent Lamination) doors each with Black Walnut shelves. The top of the cabinet is also of solid Black Walnut with a beautiful straight grain with tiny knots that mimic Stars thus creating interesting lines along the linear top. Behind the center door are four Soft close Black Walnut and Poplar drawers with solid Brass Finger Pulls hardware.

The Surprise: My signature is to normally put a surprise inside the top drawer of my cabinets. . This one is no exception. Inside the top drawer I created an All Natural colored Wood Marquetry Art the “Black tailed Texas Jackrabbit”, my client's favorite animal.

Commissions are gladly being taken for this piece, however, this piece has already SOLD.

Dimensions: 57” Long x 18” Deep x 38 1/2” Tall

Art Style

NFS

This table is constructed of Sapele and hard maple.

Art Style

$1850

The Purpleheart Seat features hand cut dovetails and dado joinery. The top (4) dovetails located closest to the purpleheart wood were carefully constructed to replicate an “exposed view” of the dovetail joint itself. No nails, screws, or other metal fasteners are used. The natural vibrancy of the purpleheart wood contrasted against the natural color of maple is sure to make this seat a focus point of any room. It is finished with 3 coats of OsmoPolyX Oil and hand buffed to a satin sheen.

Dimensions: 20” tall x 20” wide x 15” deep

Emerging Artist

$700

Crafted from solid walnut, upholstered with full-grain licorice black leather and gorgeously detailed in brass, this chair impresses viewers and users alike with its exquisite design. The Art Deco Fanfare Chair embodies sophisticated spirit, delivering both timeless design and sleek modernity suitable for any room or environment.

Dimensions: 39.5” x 21.5” x 21.5”

Contemporary Style

$1200

A fine workbench should be the centerpiece furniture of every shop, this is where the work is held, planed, fitted and finished. This workbench design is patterned after the eighteenth century French cabinetmaker, Andre Roubo.

The focus of this bench is the marquetry self portrait of the artist’s hands using a handplane, NO paint, dye or stain was used. NO lasers or computer machinery were used.

The image consists of hundreds of hand-cut veneer that was res-awn from solid wood to 1/16” thick. The woods used include, yellow heart, cocobolo, pear, holly, ebony, African blackwood, spalted pecan, maple, cherry, Peruvian walnut, just to name a few. The marquetry image started as a drawing and then each piece was carefully hand-cut and pieced together with the artist paying careful attention to the grain orientation and the tonal values of the wood, it was then knife cut and inlaid into the front vise of the bench.

The top is constructed from European Beech. The entire base is made from Sapele, an African hardwood.

The base joinery is all mortise and tenon construction pegged with white oak pegs.

The houndstooth dovetails on the end caps are entirely hand cut using a tenon saw and chisels.

The stringing is hand inlaid with holly wood.

The “Handworks” name plate is hand cut double bevel marquetry using a fretsaw. The lettering is Cocobolo and the background is Lacewood.

The hardware is made in the USA and provided by Benchcrafted. The finish is a blend of linseed oil, spar varnish and thinner.

Dimensions: 24” x 36” x 91”

Art Style

$22,950

(This bench has been spoken for but please inquire for a custom made bench)

The Ember chair is a contemporary Windsor chair that my chair maker friend Jason Gallagher and I designed and built earlier this year. We designed this chair for the much loved Café Homestead in Waco, TX after it tragically burned to the ground Christmas 2022. The owners began rebuilding right away with the noble goal to reopen in about six months. By the time we worked through the prototypes and had the approved design we had just over three months to build and finish 110 chairs, 6 barstools and 4 six foot long settees in the design you are looking at now! We used solid ash and we achieved the ebonized look with conversion varnish— two coats of black and two coats of clear for added protection. This is an extremely sturdy chair and we went to great lengths in the design and construction process to produce a chair that would hold up under daily use in a restaurant. Looking for- ward to making many more of these, get in touch if you’d like your own set.

Contemporary Style

Texas
Curly Ash Ember Chair $2500

Walnut Ember Chair $900

Ebonized Ash Ember Chair $650

This bench is designed as part of a system that can be easily modified in length, height, wood color and pattern for individual customers depending on desired usage. E.g. dining bench, blanket bench, hall table, desk, etc.

The bench is constructed from walnut and hard maple with rails of tiger maple, birds eye maple and walnut. Supported with metal dowels. It is finished with hand rubbed oil finish and beeswax.

Dimensions: 16” wide x 24” long x 18 “ tall

Contemporary Style

$1800

This “Webb” chair was designed at the workbench by Austin Weeks to fulfill requests for upholstery and for further expressions of what is timeless in a “mid-century model”. Minimal, clean and organic styling is completed in coats of Danish Oil. Black Leather upholstery by our teammate, Ron Malaguti.

Gary Weeks & Company

Contemporary Style

$900

This demilune table is primarily constructed from Texas Ash sourced from a tree on the grounds of a church in central Austin. The tree had to be felled due to an infestation of wood boring insects. (Evidence of the bored channels are still visible in the finished table.) After the tree was processed for lumber and treated with a boric acid solution to kill the insects, it was allowed to air dry for 18 months. After air-drying, the lumber was refined into smaller boards and brought to a suitable moisture content in a solar kiln. The legs are solid ash with accents of cherry. The top and apron are shop-sawn ash and cherry veneers over a composite substrate. Construction was achieved with a combination of dowels and mortises and tenons. The finish is General Finishes Arm-R-Seal, buffed after curing to a satin sheen.

Dimensions: 44 3/4 wide x 34 1/2 high x 19” deep ]

Texas Style

$3250

Soft and curvy, but with a strong weight and mass, this coffee table is inspired by the lines and shapes of boat building. The solid wood base and slatted shelf is joined with mortise and tenons. Brass tabs connect the top, which is made from shop sawn veneer in a “Breadboard” configuration. The table is finished with Oil and Wax.

Contemporary Style

$2500

Crafted in Dripping Springs, Texas, this exceptional 60-inch English Walnut table boasts a distinguished brass pedestal base. The Texas Urban Sawmill is in a collaborative partnership with the Sacramento Tree Foundation (“SAC Tree”) and Urban Wood Rescue. English Walnut trees were initially part of a CA walnut plantation that came under the ownership of a winery. When the winery decided to remove the trees, they were generously offered to the Sacramento Tree Foundation and Urban Wood Rescue.

Three years later, we were presented with the opportunity to acquire the logs as SAC Tree lacked the sawmilling capacity. Despite the logs’ challenging condition, with a significant portion of outer sapwood suffering from rot, we saw the potential that others might have dismissed as “waste”. At the Texas Urban Sawmill we take pride in salvaging trees that often go unnoticed or are considered unusable by many.

Witness for yourself the breathtaking beauty that these urban trees, rescued and reclaimed, possess. English Walnut, as a lumber species, is an exceptionally rare find on a global scale. This piece is undeniably one-of-a-kind, a testament to our commitment to preserving and showcasing the hidden treasures within seemingly disregarded wood.

Our stock of these unique slabs is extremely limited and can be reserved for exclusive, custom-made heirloom furniture endeavors. Regrettably, given their scarcity, we are unable to sell the live edge slabs directly. However, we do have “cookies” readily available for fellow woodcraft enthusiasts.

Dimensions: 60” diameter

Contemporary Style

$8500