This is a set of book cases that it built this spring to go into one of the houses we were building in Eden, Utah. I used the same pine from the floor for the backs and the face frames around the front.
For the shelving I used some dried 2x6 framing fir. I saw this type of shelf support in a piece a few years ago and tried my hand at it. It gives the pieces an antique look. The finish I used was a tinted lacquer. I prefer the lacquer now because of the quick dry time. It was rather hard to work with because i'm use to touching up spots that didn't spray out heavy enough. with the tinted finish every time I went back over it it got darker. So i had to be careful to get the same amount of coverage evenly over the pieces.
thought this was a unique project. The home owners gave us a picture of what they wanted in there house. We used rough sawn Fir from a mill in Oakley Utah. The hardest part was trying to keep the timbers from twisting. We set the bulk of the timber on a Friday then when we arrived on Monday to finish some of the timbers had twisted. to fix the situation we added the timber on the wall (which was cut tight) to keep everything stable.
This is an Oak railing I did For Peterson Builders back in 2003. It is all Red Oak balusters rail and shoes. It has false treads and risers on both sides of the steps. The large radius on the upper floor was cut on a CNC machine. I was able to watch the railing and the shoe being cut out on the CNC machine. It was pretty cool to see the head on the machine twist and turn and go to the wall and grab a different bit. What was nice about it was the rail and the shoe don't have any of the lines that a traditional bent railing has. It's all one solid piece.
This is a set of book cases that it built this spring to go into one of the houses we were building in Eden, Utah. I used the same pine from the floor for the backs and the face frames around the front. 
