Li'l Shaker, 2005
Li'l Shaker, 2005

Curly birch, satinwood, ebony

Pahelle 2021
Pahelle 2021

A desk with many secret drawers and compartments.

Walnut, butternut, white oak, ebony, and others

Pahelle
Pahelle

12 drawers, some in front, some in back, so lots of ways to use this desk

Outside In
Outside In

Douglas fir, cherry, curly maple, ebony, and 17 other woods, 2017

Outside In
Outside In

Interior painted by Carolyn Enz Hack, curly birch tambour, a drawer poking through a door, and three swing out drawers that unlock the door below.

Outside In
Outside In

Staved construction with fine ebony beads at the joints, and drawers opening everywhere. The top contains a Morse Code signature and date. 

Outside In
Outside In

The three rippling drawers are a combination lock to open the wavy door below — by lining up the right colored stripes! 

 Pleated 2018    Curly birch, cherry, curly maple, satinwood, ebony and holly

Pleated 2018 Curly birch, cherry, curly maple, satinwood, ebony and holly

TRUSLOW_190505NHFMA_Hack_Pleated_001_WEB.jpg
Demi Demi, 2004
Demi Demi, 2004

Cherry, birdseye maple, crotch birch, ebony, holly

Demi-Demi
Demi-Demi

Plume birch panel with energetic dot/dash and ebony cockbead

X-Ray, 2008
X-Ray, 2008

Curly birch, rosewood, abalone, ebony, holly

Detail, X-Ray
Detail, X-Ray

Eskimo "sunglasses" panel with abalone inlay, crotch cherry leg panels

Detail, Pearl, 2010
Detail, Pearl, 2010

Wavy watery images, cherry, pear, apple, mother of pearl, crotch birch, ebony, paint

Shaker side table, 1993
Shaker side table, 1993

Birdseye maple, pear, rosewood, secondary woods (drawers)

Ash chair, 1981
Ash chair, 1981

Steam bent ash, Danish cord seat

Pear side chair
Pear side chair

Pear, ebony, holly

Detail Pear Chair
Detail Pear Chair
Butternut Chest of Drawers
Butternut Chest of Drawers

Butternut, ebony, holly and secondary woods (drawers), with "whale-tail" aprons and French feet

Butternut Chest
Butternut Chest

Ebony and holly corner column, ebony drawer cockbeads, and coved underbevel of the top 

Serpentine Chest
Serpentine Chest

Cherry, rosewood, ebony, holly

Apron Serpentine Chest
Apron Serpentine Chest
Pear Sideboard
Pear Sideboard

Serpentine facade, of pear, bubinga, ebony, holly, secondary woods

Huntboard
Huntboard

Cherry, curly birch, ebony, holly, brass wire 

Hunt board Detail
Hunt board Detail

Knobs inlaid with brass wire spirals, fine ebony bead outlining curly birch panel, and incised beads on drawers

Two Nuts, Sideboard
Two Nuts, Sideboard

Butternut, walnut, rosewood, abalone, ebony, holly — Asymmetry!

Charleston Chest, 2012
Charleston Chest, 2012

Bowed facade, 14 drawers, of butternut, walnut, ebony, abalone, secondary woods

Charleston Chest, Detail
Charleston Chest, Detail

Ebony corner and drawer cockbeads

Charleston Chest, Detail
Charleston Chest, Detail

Not so secret drawers

Charleston Chest, Detail
Charleston Chest, Detail

Wavy abalone inlay

Takin' A Shine, 2007
Takin' A Shine, 2007

Macassar ebony, rosewood, amboyna burl, silver, birdseye maple, 

Takin' A Shine, Detail
Takin' A Shine, Detail

A drawer within a drawer, silver inlaid pulls

Takin' A Shine, Detail
Takin' A Shine, Detail
Silver Feet, Takin' A Shine
Silver Feet, Takin' A Shine
Weikewa Shimmering, 2008
Weikewa Shimmering, 2008

Curly birch, Mun ebony, ivory, gold feet and pulls, abalone 

Weikewa Shimmering, Detail
Weikewa Shimmering, Detail

Sunlight glinting off the water, wavy edge and underbevel of top

Weikewa Shimmering, gold feet
Weikewa Shimmering, gold feet

Copper and brass feet gold plated, with bone bead transitions to the rosewood saber legs

Va Va Vienna, 2011
Va Va Vienna, 2011

Macassar ebony, cherry, satinwood, silver feet, bone pulls, mother of pearl. Painting by Carolyn Enz Hack

Va Va Vienna
Va Va Vienna

Tiara of Mother of pearl

Va Va Vienna
Va Va Vienna

Collaborating with Carolyn on the facade painting

Port and Starboard, 2012
Port and Starboard, 2012

Douglas fir, cherry, rosewood, bone, painted panels by Carolyn Enz Hack

Port and Starboard, Detail
Port and Starboard, Detail

Rosewood beads between Douglas fir staves

Port
Port

2 small drawers with bone inlaid pulls

Port and Starboard, drawers
Port and Starboard, drawers

Pulls with 7 facets

Port and Starboard II
Port and Starboard II

Different painted panels and ebony and holly "dentils" at top of case

Duet, 2014
Duet, 2014

A cabinet for music, of Engleman spruce, curly maple, ebony, secondary woods, abalone, paint details by Carolyn Enz Hack

Duet, Detail
Duet, Detail
Duet
Duet

Drawers piercing door

Duet, Interior
Duet, Interior
Duet, Detail
Duet, Detail

Shelves with fun edges, to store sheet music and musical things

Duet, Leg detail
Duet, Leg detail
Ripplicious, 2015
Ripplicious, 2015

A desk of pear, rosewood, paua shell, ivory,  secondary woods, inspired by a trip to the coast of Australia

Ripplicious, Wavy Apron
Ripplicious, Wavy Apron
Ripplicious, 6 Drawers
Ripplicious, 6 Drawers

Wavy rosewood pulls, ivory dots

Ripplicious, Legs
Ripplicious, Legs

Rosewood with ivory dots and paua shell lines

Wavy Cabinet 2015
Wavy Cabinet 2015

A cabinet to store and display violins, bows, and strings — butternut, walnut, aspen, curly maple, Engleman spruce (back), rosewood

Wavy Cabinet, Detail
Wavy Cabinet, Detail

2 almost secret small drawers, dot/dash edge, and ebony bead "strings" 

Pear 2 Drawer Case, 2015
Pear 2 Drawer Case, 2015

Playing with waves in the surfaces and edges, of pear, rosewood, aspen, bone

Pear 2 Drawer Case
Pear 2 Drawer Case
Fir Cabinet
Fir Cabinet

Douglas fir, ebony, Sitka spruce, jade, secondary woods

Inlaid Table Corner
Inlaid Table Corner
Butternut Scotch Cabinet
Butternut Scotch Cabinet

Faux malachite panels by Carolyn Enz Hack

Plume Birch Panel
Plume Birch Panel

Front apron of a demilune table, with dot/dash outline

Water Strider
Water Strider

Inlaid silver, abalone, banding, with a wake of mother-of-pearl filling small worm holes

Demilune Table, Detail
Demilune Table, Detail

Brazilian rosewood, birdseye maple, ebony and holly Morse Code inlay

My Shop
My Shop

Started in 1993, nearly finished. Old brick, granite foundation, slate roof. 24 X 36 feet

Shop Interior
Shop Interior

Plenty of natural light, many tools close at hand, cherry wainscoting, aspen floor

Drying Wood
Drying Wood

Farm harvested and sawed lumber for buildings and furniture

Jazz
Jazz

My Belgian workhorse Jazz, turning 12 this summer

Mentoring Group
Mentoring Group

For two years I have run a mentoring group for emerging makers

Spring Plowing
Spring Plowing
Our Milking Shorthorn cattle
Our Milking Shorthorn cattle
Summer Hay
Summer Hay

Hay art, spirals

Crops
Crops

Some of our crops at Abundance farm: Corn, oats, orchard, hay

And a big garden.......
And a big garden.......
Fall Harvest
Fall Harvest

Corn shocks

Japan 2009
Japan 2009

A special competition plane with an iron 8" wide

Japan, 2009
Japan, 2009

A private planing competition, pitting Lie Nielsen and Japanese planes. Guess who won. 

Japan
Japan

Planemaker Inomoto-San (white kerchief), a Japanese National Treasure,  with his stockpile of plane bodies

Li'l Shaker, 2005
Pahelle 2021
Pahelle
Outside In
Outside In
Outside In
Outside In
 Pleated 2018    Curly birch, cherry, curly maple, satinwood, ebony and holly
TRUSLOW_190505NHFMA_Hack_Pleated_001_WEB.jpg
Demi Demi, 2004
Demi-Demi
X-Ray, 2008
Detail, X-Ray
Detail, Pearl, 2010
Shaker side table, 1993
Ash chair, 1981
Pear side chair
Detail Pear Chair
Butternut Chest of Drawers
Butternut Chest
Serpentine Chest
Apron Serpentine Chest
Pear Sideboard
Huntboard
Hunt board Detail
Two Nuts, Sideboard
Charleston Chest, 2012
Charleston Chest, Detail
Charleston Chest, Detail
Charleston Chest, Detail
Takin' A Shine, 2007
Takin' A Shine, Detail
Takin' A Shine, Detail
Silver Feet, Takin' A Shine
Weikewa Shimmering, 2008
Weikewa Shimmering, Detail
Weikewa Shimmering, gold feet
Va Va Vienna, 2011
Va Va Vienna
Va Va Vienna
Port and Starboard, 2012
Port and Starboard, Detail
Port
Port and Starboard, drawers
Port and Starboard II
Duet, 2014
Duet, Detail
Duet
Duet, Interior
Duet, Detail
Duet, Leg detail
Ripplicious, 2015
Ripplicious, Wavy Apron
Ripplicious, 6 Drawers
Ripplicious, Legs
Wavy Cabinet 2015
Wavy Cabinet, Detail
Pear 2 Drawer Case, 2015
Pear 2 Drawer Case
Fir Cabinet
Inlaid Table Corner
Butternut Scotch Cabinet
Plume Birch Panel
Water Strider
Demilune Table, Detail
My Shop
Shop Interior
Drying Wood
Jazz
Mentoring Group
Spring Plowing
Our Milking Shorthorn cattle
Summer Hay
Crops
And a big garden.......
Fall Harvest
Japan 2009
Japan, 2009
Japan
Li'l Shaker, 2005

Curly birch, satinwood, ebony

Pahelle 2021

A desk with many secret drawers and compartments.

Walnut, butternut, white oak, ebony, and others

Pahelle

12 drawers, some in front, some in back, so lots of ways to use this desk

Outside In

Douglas fir, cherry, curly maple, ebony, and 17 other woods, 2017

Outside In

Interior painted by Carolyn Enz Hack, curly birch tambour, a drawer poking through a door, and three swing out drawers that unlock the door below.

Outside In

Staved construction with fine ebony beads at the joints, and drawers opening everywhere. The top contains a Morse Code signature and date. 

Outside In

The three rippling drawers are a combination lock to open the wavy door below — by lining up the right colored stripes! 

Pleated 2018 Curly birch, cherry, curly maple, satinwood, ebony and holly

Demi Demi, 2004

Cherry, birdseye maple, crotch birch, ebony, holly

Demi-Demi

Plume birch panel with energetic dot/dash and ebony cockbead

X-Ray, 2008

Curly birch, rosewood, abalone, ebony, holly

Detail, X-Ray

Eskimo "sunglasses" panel with abalone inlay, crotch cherry leg panels

Detail, Pearl, 2010

Wavy watery images, cherry, pear, apple, mother of pearl, crotch birch, ebony, paint

Shaker side table, 1993

Birdseye maple, pear, rosewood, secondary woods (drawers)

Ash chair, 1981

Steam bent ash, Danish cord seat

Pear side chair

Pear, ebony, holly

Detail Pear Chair
Butternut Chest of Drawers

Butternut, ebony, holly and secondary woods (drawers), with "whale-tail" aprons and French feet

Butternut Chest

Ebony and holly corner column, ebony drawer cockbeads, and coved underbevel of the top 

Serpentine Chest

Cherry, rosewood, ebony, holly

Apron Serpentine Chest
Pear Sideboard

Serpentine facade, of pear, bubinga, ebony, holly, secondary woods

Huntboard

Cherry, curly birch, ebony, holly, brass wire 

Hunt board Detail

Knobs inlaid with brass wire spirals, fine ebony bead outlining curly birch panel, and incised beads on drawers

Two Nuts, Sideboard

Butternut, walnut, rosewood, abalone, ebony, holly — Asymmetry!

Charleston Chest, 2012

Bowed facade, 14 drawers, of butternut, walnut, ebony, abalone, secondary woods

Charleston Chest, Detail

Ebony corner and drawer cockbeads

Charleston Chest, Detail

Not so secret drawers

Charleston Chest, Detail

Wavy abalone inlay

Takin' A Shine, 2007

Macassar ebony, rosewood, amboyna burl, silver, birdseye maple, 

Takin' A Shine, Detail

A drawer within a drawer, silver inlaid pulls

Takin' A Shine, Detail
Silver Feet, Takin' A Shine
Weikewa Shimmering, 2008

Curly birch, Mun ebony, ivory, gold feet and pulls, abalone 

Weikewa Shimmering, Detail

Sunlight glinting off the water, wavy edge and underbevel of top

Weikewa Shimmering, gold feet

Copper and brass feet gold plated, with bone bead transitions to the rosewood saber legs

Va Va Vienna, 2011

Macassar ebony, cherry, satinwood, silver feet, bone pulls, mother of pearl. Painting by Carolyn Enz Hack

Va Va Vienna

Tiara of Mother of pearl

Va Va Vienna

Collaborating with Carolyn on the facade painting

Port and Starboard, 2012

Douglas fir, cherry, rosewood, bone, painted panels by Carolyn Enz Hack

Port and Starboard, Detail

Rosewood beads between Douglas fir staves

Port

2 small drawers with bone inlaid pulls

Port and Starboard, drawers

Pulls with 7 facets

Port and Starboard II

Different painted panels and ebony and holly "dentils" at top of case

Duet, 2014

A cabinet for music, of Engleman spruce, curly maple, ebony, secondary woods, abalone, paint details by Carolyn Enz Hack

Duet, Detail
Duet

Drawers piercing door

Duet, Interior
Duet, Detail

Shelves with fun edges, to store sheet music and musical things

Duet, Leg detail
Ripplicious, 2015

A desk of pear, rosewood, paua shell, ivory,  secondary woods, inspired by a trip to the coast of Australia

Ripplicious, Wavy Apron
Ripplicious, 6 Drawers

Wavy rosewood pulls, ivory dots

Ripplicious, Legs

Rosewood with ivory dots and paua shell lines

Wavy Cabinet 2015

A cabinet to store and display violins, bows, and strings — butternut, walnut, aspen, curly maple, Engleman spruce (back), rosewood

Wavy Cabinet, Detail

2 almost secret small drawers, dot/dash edge, and ebony bead "strings" 

Pear 2 Drawer Case, 2015

Playing with waves in the surfaces and edges, of pear, rosewood, aspen, bone

Pear 2 Drawer Case
Fir Cabinet

Douglas fir, ebony, Sitka spruce, jade, secondary woods

Inlaid Table Corner
Butternut Scotch Cabinet

Faux malachite panels by Carolyn Enz Hack

Plume Birch Panel

Front apron of a demilune table, with dot/dash outline

Water Strider

Inlaid silver, abalone, banding, with a wake of mother-of-pearl filling small worm holes

Demilune Table, Detail

Brazilian rosewood, birdseye maple, ebony and holly Morse Code inlay

My Shop

Started in 1993, nearly finished. Old brick, granite foundation, slate roof. 24 X 36 feet

Shop Interior

Plenty of natural light, many tools close at hand, cherry wainscoting, aspen floor

Drying Wood

Farm harvested and sawed lumber for buildings and furniture

Jazz

My Belgian workhorse Jazz, turning 12 this summer

Mentoring Group

For two years I have run a mentoring group for emerging makers

Spring Plowing
Our Milking Shorthorn cattle
Summer Hay

Hay art, spirals

Crops

Some of our crops at Abundance farm: Corn, oats, orchard, hay

And a big garden.......
Fall Harvest

Corn shocks

Japan 2009

A special competition plane with an iron 8" wide

Japan, 2009

A private planing competition, pitting Lie Nielsen and Japanese planes. Guess who won. 

Japan

Planemaker Inomoto-San (white kerchief), a Japanese National Treasure,  with his stockpile of plane bodies

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