"Extrude"

Designed around the look of how aluminum is extruded into shapes, the "Extrude" boxes represent the next step in mass furniture production. Just load up the light or dark material, push it though the die and out comes beautiful furniture. Sometimes I believe this is how the masses see the process. Blinded by cheap, easily made furniture from the big box stores. These boxes go out to all the craftsmen out there who know what it really takes to create beautiful woodwork. You have my respect and admiration.

The back of the dark boxes were carved from a large glue up of black walnut topped by a carved piece of curly maple. The die portion was created using black walnut, 0.187" thick aluminum plates and polished stainless steel screws.  The grain is continuous around the die. The text was created using letter punches and black dyed epoxy as a filler. The box portion was created from Baltic birch veneered with black walnut burl.  The veneer was cut so that it is continuous around the entire box.   The edging is hard maple and uses a three way miter technique on the corners..  The drawer was created from black walnut with hard maple accent dowels.  I routed grooves in the drawer sides to mimic striations that would occur during an extrusion process.  The lid is a glue up of alternating layers of veneer with a black walnut burl last layer.  Solid black walnut edging and black dyed maple and hard maple accents.

The back of the light boxes were carved from a large glue up of hard maple topped by a carved piece of flame black walnut. The die portion was created using hard maple, 0.187" thick aluminum plates and polished stainless steel screws.  The grain is continuous around the die. The text was created using letter punches and black dyed epoxy as a filler. The box portion was created from Baltic birch veneered with Tamo ash..  The veneer was cut so that it is continuous around the entire box.   The edging is black walnut and uses a three way miter technique on the corners..  The drawer was created from curly maple with black walnut accent dowels.  I routed grooves in the drawer sides to mimic striations that would occur during an extrusion process.  The lid is a glue up of alternating layers of veneer with a hand cut quilted maple veneer last layer.  Solid curly maple edging and black dyed maple and hard maple accents.

Each box is approximately 18" x 11" x 9".  They were finished with three coats of Danish oil with 0000 steel wool sanding in between each coat.  This was topped with two buffings of BriWax.

Please contact me if you're interested in purchasing this piece.

Price: $1800 for the set.