This is straight up Anna White plan stuff here. Made a bunk bed and chair for Maggie.
Doll Furniture
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Drawer Unit
I built a storage unit with drawers to go under Melissa’s sewing table. This one was pretty easy since I used melamine for the case and some leftover drawers from our kitchen (don’t ask). I just had to mill up some walnut for the drawer fronts. Custom furniture is great because it fits perfect!
Ash Room Divider
I built this for a friend out of ash from Hearne Hardwoods in PA. I came up with the design based off a bunch of pictures we looked at together. This is all loose tenon joinery, no screws. For a little bit there I was wondering how I was going to get it glued together but I figured it out eventually.
Ash Trestle Table
I built this table for our kitchen out of ash from a sawyer in Baltimore County with a little bit of walnut I picked up several years ago from someone in Havre de Grace that had some trees from his property cut up so it’s all “local” wood. I was able to get a bunch of ash slabs from the middle of the tree, cut out the pith and was left with a lot of nice quartersawn/riftsawn pieces for the top. I grain filled the top and edges with a medium brown dyed filler. Loose mortise and tenon joinery for the base and a water borne conversion varnish for the finish.
2023 Season
We’re back at it and will be doing one show this year to ease back into things. Hope to see some familiar faces. We really appreciate those of you that thought of us and contacted us in the interim looking for items.
The show we’re doing will be at Glasgow High School on Saturday, December 9, 2023.
More details here: https://turtleandchicken.com/show/2023-glasgow-high-school-craft-show/
2020 Season Update
For reasons that should be fairly obvious to everyone, the craft shows we normally participate in have been cancelled this year. We don’t have any plans to search out and participate in any shows that may still be held.
That said, we’ve already gotten some requests from previous customers and we do still have inventory so if you’re interested in picking up some more handmade gifts feel free to call, email, or use the contact form here on the website.
Thanks and be safe.
“Fancy” Boards
Here’s a preview of three end grain cutting boards I’m working on now. I’ll have these available at our final show this year at Glasgow High School on Dec 14th.
Basket-Weave 
Brick 
Geometric
2019 Season and New Items
We’re kicking off our 2019 season this weekend with the Immaculate Conception Parish Christmas Bazaar. We’ve got a couple all new items this year in addition to new versions of our existing favorites.
Melissa has some cute and fun chicken bean bags:
And I have some Veggie/Pastry scrapers:
So we hope to see you guys at one of the 3 shows we have this year.
More cutting board maintenance
It’s been almost 4 years since the last update on our “daily driver” end grain cutting board. This board was made in October 2014 so it’s just over 4 years old. Here’s how it looks now:
And here’s how it looks after spending a few minutes rubbing in some of our board cream (mineral oil/beeswax mixture) and buffing it off:
Yes, you can still see some of the heaviest cuts, but it looks so much better. Oil/board cream is mostly a cosmetic thing but it does protect from moisture/juice soaking in somewhat as well. You can apply either product whenever the board starts to look “dry”.
Ash and Walnut Cantilevered Computer Desk number 2
After seeing pictures of my new computer desk, a co-worker (a different one this time) asked if I could make one for him, so I did it all over again. This one’s top is longer at 7.5′. Because of the extra length we decided to add some stretchers between the legs to prevent racking and support the top. I used knock-down connectors on the stretchers so the whole thing can be taken apart and transported more easily. This one is finished the same as mine with shellac and water-based polyurethane.
