Our Projects

Teak Slab Bench

Teak wood is wonderful to work with. Its characteristics and colors are very unique. Considered as one of the more durable woods, it is rot resistant and since it has a high oil content it is almost water proof. This 3 seat teak wood slab bench was built for a customer who wanted something that has an industrial modern vibe to it. The slabs are cut from the same tree trunk, so they are all similar in size and shape. The legs are crafted from 3/4 inch galvanized piping, The legs were the most difficult to work with as they need to be perfectly square, need to be the same length and height so that all the slab seats sit at the same height and distance. The colors on the teak wood turned out really beautiful with the oil-wax finish. Slabs were sanded to a 400 grit. There was a natural hole in the teak slabs which was filled with clear epoxy. See below some of the before and after pics.

Monkeypod Wood Slab Light Fixture

Monkeypod wood is an exotic hardwood found mainly in tropical climates. It tends to be a golden color, and some varieties also beautiful streaks of reds and browns. This light fixture was built for a newly constructed dental office in their reception area. The fixture is almost 6 feet wide and 8-12 inches wide. The wood slab was sanded down to a 600 grit and finished with an oil-wax finish. The light fixtures give it an industrial modern look and have Edison style light bulbs in it. These types of light fixtures are perfect for a dining area, over the kitchen island or in a foyer.

Walnut and Maple 3D Chess Board Table

One of our best projects. This was a labor of love, love for the game of chess and love to create a piece of art honoring the game. I got inspired in a discussion with a retired ISRO scientist (Indian Space Research Organisation) I met at a Wine and Art festival, who ended up loving my wood work display and started talking about chess and the art of war in valleys and mountains. How would an army fight in a hilly region ? That gave me a spark of inspiration to create a multi level 3D chess board. Each piece sitting at a different level.

We started of with designing it to be of the appropriate size to fit championship size chess pieces. So each square is about 2 x 2 inches. The heights of the squares are set to be the highest to the lowest from the center of the starting line. Which means the King and Queen, the most important people in the game sit at the highest square and then the other pieces sit lower based on their position. This turned out to be the perfect way to design the board. Then came the wood of choice to represent the regular black and white of chess squares. We chose walnut and maple wood blanks, walnut for the dark squares and maple for the light. We sanded each wood blank to 240 grit before cutting them. Then started building the table in 2 rows at a time, one vertical and one horizontal. This helped assure that the blocks were perfectly square and in line. As we starting working our way in the assembling kind of became difficult as the space was limited. After the table set we sanded the top face and each visible side to a 400 grit and then applied the oil and wax finish and buffed them. Then we placed the finished chess board on a bamboo plywood board sheet which matched to colors of the walnut and maple. The legs we used a combination of walnut and maple and placed them at an angle to give it a distinct look. Finally we purchased the chess pieces from Amazon, the color of the chess pieces perfectly matches the walnut and maple colors, so it all looks like a one perfect chess table. Again as I mentioned it was a labor of love with many a man hours poured into it.

Teak Wood Side Table

Thought about the design for this cool teak wood side table while playing jenga with my kids. I wondered how would it look if I stacked blocks and used it as a side table. So we went about measuring the appropriate size, to get a versatile and user friend side table. We started off with teak wood blanks. Blanks are blocks off wood used by lathe machine users to make vases, wood pens, bowls, etc. We sanded the blocks and then cut them up in 2 inch blocks and started laying them to find a perfect design. The side table was laborious as we had to build one level after the other. The top level was a inspired from seeing how wood workers use epoxy to fill voids or make river tables. So I thought of making a template to placing each block of wood in a design and then filling the gaps with epoxy. It was quite a task building the template and figuring out how some of the blocks will be held in place as the top level blocks are free and not attached to the other levels. So we build the top level in a wood template, screwed in some of the blocks to hold them in place and then poured in the epoxy to fill up the voids. The epoxy when dry has a semi transparent cloudy look. Then sanded and cleaned it up and then glued it on the top of the side table. It was one of my most labor intensive and fun projects, but the table turned out as expected, beautiful and a work of art. The teak was from different pieces of wood so there are so many different colors of sapwood and heartwood in the side table. We sanded it to a 400 grit and finished it with an Oil Wax finish. The side table is about 18 inches high and 12 x 12 inches.

Hickory Wood Entryway Console Table

Built this entry way console table for a customer. She wanted something that would have a contemporary and warm look to her house entryway. We reviewed quite a few wood choices like walnut, redwood, etc. but then zeroed in on this perfect hickory wood slab for the console table. The wood has beautiful grain and was good to work with. The slab has natural worm holes which add more uniqueness to the table. A worm hole is when a small insect or insects have burrowed into the wood and made tunnels. On this slab the tunnels were on the edge of the wood slab which made it look like there were squiggly lines carved into the wood. We did not want to sand this out and kept it as a character of the wood, kind of tells a cute story. Overall the console table turned out beautiful and our customer has already told us about the number of complements she has received for it.