Drafting Table
This was built so that I can have a space to work on the design of my Master's Project. The top was a butcher block (Northern Soft Maple) from a home (where we built the replacement). The "I" of the legs was shop scrap left over from building that replacement butcher block. The cross member, foot rest, was a fall off from a production built butcher block used for the island in the same home. Also Northern Soft Maple The Fiddleback Maple of the pencil lip on the front of the table was from my personal stash. The back and front connector are pieces of maple that were rejected for their grain, on a job that wanted straight grain. The African Mahogany "/" of the legs were a remnant after a large job of trophies. The four hand turned pins were random maple scraps from my firewood pile. Two pieces of All-thread are set at the back with hand turned Mahogany handles. The drafting arm itself (Bruning) was given to me by my high school woodshop teacher when the high school disbanded the drafting class.
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The Barefoot Woodworker
Our furniture maker is the Barefoot Woodworker, a professional woodworker with a minor aversion to shoes. He was fortunate enough to have studied under a Master Artisan who was trained in an apprenticeship in the famous Black Forest in Germany. (Black Forest woodworkers and clock makers were renowned for their precision clocks. Cuckoo clocks have been made in the region since the early eighteenth century and much of their development occurred there. Excessive logging and two World Wars have reduced the population of the Black Forest and its renowned woodworkers to a mere fraction of what once was, making their distinguished skills both scarce and valuable.) Barefoot's education by this truly gifted Artisan has lead to a passion for the superior, and almost forgotten, construction methods of the past. He possesses an affinity for hand tools and traditional joinery that most others in this field no longer know about, let alone use. He has also developed a love and comprehensive knowledge of hidden catches and secret compartments. In an industry bombarded with new machinery designed for shortcuts, he is pursuing the Master Woodworker level via traditional methods.
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