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Check out
Nathan's famous wooden jigsaw puzzles. They'll blow you
away:
One of
Nathan's many wooden jigsaw puzzles... |
Check out
Nathan's amazing backlit signs:
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| Construction
Projects And of course, Nathan does lots of other construction projects too! |
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Benches
for Piedmont Hills High School "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Yup, Nathan's signature projects are
his 2 benches for the PHHS Drama team, one a 4' wide
"glider/rocker" bench, and another 3' wide stationary
bench. The benches were custom designed
specifically for the play. Amazingly, he finished the 2
benches in just over a week. Nice work, huh? |
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Oak hardwood floor patching. Nathan patched a huge ugly hole in his dad's hardwood floor at his 80+ year old house in Michigan. The original white oak floors would have been gorgous, when they were installed, probably 8 decades ago. But along the way, some anonymous previous owner cut a big hole right in the middle of the dining room floor, probably for a wet bar or similar. When they moved out, they "filled" the hole with cheap plywood, stapled ugly vinyl on top of the plywood, and called it a day. Over the years, subsequent owners nailed 3 more layers of (ugly) subflooring and vinyl on top of the previous layers. What monsters would do such a thing, without at least removing old layers of vinyl and underlayment. Either way, when we eventually ripped up the vinyl and plywood, we were stunned to find gorgeous white oak flooring, long protected by 4 strata of disgustingly ugly vinyl. But when we ripped up the transition way between the kitchen and dining room, we were aghast to discover the big hole that some (evil) previous owner had chopped in the otherwise gorgeous white oak floor. Patching the hole was Nathan's job. It took Nathan a lot of measuring, cutting, trimming, fitting, sanding, rinse lather repeat, to repair the hole. But when the new oak strips were painstakingly fit, and installed, and sanded, and stained, and sealed, Nathan's work was indistinguishable from the 80 year old flooring, and would surely have made the original craftsmen proud! | |
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Mantle
- A chimney fire several years ago burned
Nathan's dad's mantle. The insurance guys dragged
their feet for months, promising to send a crew to
replace the mantle, but nobody ever showed up. But
never fear, Nathan jumped to the rescue and rebuilt a
brand new mantle |
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Sunrise
Window. Nathan's dad's "Sunrise
Window" in the attic had been rotting and falling apart
for years. No wonder since the old window looked
decades old and had long been exposed to many miserable
Michigan winters. But after many decades of
service, the poor old window disintegrated in a big
storm, and fell into the attic making a big glassy
mess. But Nathan jumped in, pieced the broken
frame together, traced the original onto a couple of big
sheets of plywood, and made a brand new replacement
sunrise window. The new version looks even better
than the original version. |
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Adirondack
Bench. Here's the scale model of an
Adirondack bench/chair that Nathan is building for his
Carpentry Class. |
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| TBD:
Bathroom "Wood Look" Tile |
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| TBD:
Kitchen "Wood Look" Tile |
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| TBD:
The Famous Credenza |
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| TBD:
The First Fish |
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 Nathan is building a towel rack for the Piedmont Hills High School staff locker room. No kidding, the letters are inset solid marble letters that Nathan cuts on his diamond-blade ring saw. Cool, huh? |
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