Terry's Latest Project

Terry loves his retirement and keeps busy by working in his shop, formerly known as the garage. Many of his projects are pieces of furniture that I think we need at the cabin and he indulges me by making them. Last fall while "window shopping on line" he found a guy who had just cut down a huge alligator juniper tree in the Forest Lakes area, about 2 hours north of where we live in Tempe. Terry called him on the phone and within a couple of days we drove up there to take a look at the pieces of lumber. I had previously looked at a lot of furniture and taken pictures of things I wanted him to copy, but when I looked at that beautiful raw wood everything I originally thought I wanted went out the window.

We selected several pieces and I told Terry that I thought I would like to keep the tables with the free form edge of the tree and even leave the bark on it for a rugged look. The wood grain, the knots, everything that came naturally with this wood was beautiful. Terry agreed.

Terry cut, sanded, clamped, glued, drilled, welded, stained, varnished, and invested a huge amount of time and energy. Here is the result of his hard work. I think it blends in perfectly in our cabin setting.