Ebony Desk

Writing Desk composed of Gabon Ebony, Macassar Ebony, Madrone, Holly, Port Orford Cedar

This piece was inspired by a desk made by a student years ahead of me, Scott Nelson. It was the first piece of furniture I have encountered that was built to this stunning standard.

This was a challenging piece from which I learned tremendously. There were no square components in the casework. My favorite part of this project was the construction of the gallery. It is the only solid wood casework and is joined by 40 half-blind and through dovetails. It was a pleasure to be executing dovetail work that was purely structural. In furniture work one is always obsessing over the minute details of dovetail joints--slenderness, spacing, tightness. However, these were destined to be invisible and there is something liberating about that.