Bill Adams is a furniture and cabinet maker located in Evergreen, Colorado. As a former boat builder, he enjoys challenging joinery and shapes.

Craftsman-style
dining table

Bubinga and cherry with rosewood and quilted maple accents. The remarkable thing about this table is the bubinga and cherry. All of the bubinga is from a single 8/4 plank that measured aprox. 18" X 16' and all of the cherry was resawn from a single cherry beam and bookmatched across the top. This ensured that all of the wood had consistant grain and color. The base is mortise and tenon with pegs holding everything together.

Mesquite kitchen - Kent had a single pallet of plain sawn 12" to 16" mesquite logs approx 5' long. The challenge was to yield enough wood to create the entire kitchen. We layed out each piece of wood and labeled each based on its use. Rails and styles were sized based on the available size of wood for the panels. To prevent the heavily checked panels from self destructing in the planer and shaper, they were laminated to a piece of 1/4" MDF, milled, shaped, and assembled. Then they were carefully planed and sanded to remove the MDF.

White oak table in mesquite kitchen - The top is made from 16/4 white oak supplied by CSWoods and measures 70" square. Once it was glued up we had to use an engine hoist to flip it over for sand and finish and to load it onto a trailer for delivery. I hired a crane to pick it off the trailer and lower it onto a rear deck next to the kitchen. The base is also white oak, painted several colors and distressed back into the various colors and raw wood.

Murphy bed - Cherry and tiger maple. She wanted a bed, he wanted a dart board. They both got what they wanted.

Glass topped dining table - Bubinga and fir with dyed tiger maple pegs. The client had a 12 spoke pattern in her dining room that she didn't want to obscure. We came up with this see through table that seats six. The 3 legged design lines up with the floor and the re-claimed fir blends well with the rustic feel of the home.

Entry door - with free-form design. Made with juniper that was harvested off of the client's land and walnut supplied by CSWoods. This client-designed door incorporates free-form juniper "branches" over a background of horizontal walnut. It reflects the barren trees and distant mesas of the desert where the home is located.

Wavy door - Walnut, glass, metal. This door is unique because it opens along the wavy line to the left of center. It has trapezoidal slumped glass light and copper panels (not shown) as accents. I build exterior doors by re-sawing all material and then laminating them back over each side of an insulated honeycomb core in the same sequence. It gives the illusion that each board is solid all the way through but provides thermal and sound insulation and prevents warping and movement that is so destructive on large wood surfaces.

Craftsman style entry door - African mahogany and reclaimed cypress. Cypress panels are laminated over a core to provide insulation and prevent through-cracks.

Basement bar - Cherry and tiger maple with a natural edged soft maple top. Natural edges are wire brushed to add a nice texture and eliminate all loose material.

Past Craftsman Highlights:

Michael Kaplan, is a bartender by day and a craftsman by night! He says: “What started as a hobby has turned into a full fledged addiction. I consider myself a semi-professional- that is, I sell some, and the rest of my work is for myself and friends/family.

Dean Pulver, a woodworker and Collector’s Specialty Woods client, lives and works in Taos, New Mexico. His recent furniture project using tiger maple and curly cherry is a truly amazing example of craftsmanship and art.