Peter Ripple, Custom Furniture

I have a Master of Fine Arts Degree from The School for American Craftsmen, at Rochester Institute of Technology at Rochester, NY, 1971. I design and build custom furniture. I prefer using traditional joinery techniques and Northern hardwoods, such as oak, maple, birch, cherry, ash and walnut. I will work in exotics if desired. I prefer natural finishes with no stain. I am a Canadian citizen living and working in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Contact me at peter.debbie20mpl@yahoo.com

Cherry Chess Board

This end table is of cherry with a chess board built in with pieces of cherry heartwood and sapwood. No veneer is used. The checks are the same thickness as the rest of the top, and given extra support from below with hardwood glued and scewed to the underside of the top. Kids can stand on it with no danger of the top breaking. Frame is mortise and tennoned into tapered legs.