Doucette and Wolfe Fine Furniture Makers

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Frame and Panel Bed

Custom Frame and Panel Bed

Handmade by

Doucette and Wolfe Furniture Makers

This Frame and Panel Bed was custom designed with the same aesthetic appeal as the Double Chest that we designed and make in custom sizes. This bed is made of spectacular solid cherry and tiger maple. The cherry is cut with straight grain so to accent the vivid striping of the tiger maple panels that were re-sawn from a large 16” wide plank.

Rough cutting the cherry

This bed is made with mortise and tenon joinery throughout for the superior strength. A custom hidden bed bolt system is designed for easy assembly/disassembly without the exposed bolt on the outside of the posts.

Custom Bed in progress

Every surface of the bed is hand planed smooth before finish

Queen Size Bed

Curly Maple and Cherry Bed

Finished Frame and Panel Bed

Monday, April 7, 2014

Curly Cherry Chest of Drawers

Curly Cherry Chest of Drawers

Doucette and Wolfe Furniture Makers

Museum Quality Custom Handmade Furniture

Curly Cherry Chest

This custom chest of drawers is handmade from a spectacular log of curly cherry. Each part of this chest is made from the same log to ensure the grain, figure and color matches throughout this piece. The chest design has clean lines commonly seen on Shaker style furniture. The decoration comes from a combination of exposed hand cut dovetail joinery that is seen throughout this piece and the spectacular wood.

This is the curly cherry in the rough.

The wood milled and the case sides, top and bottom cut to size.

Curly Cherry Case parts

Hand cutting the dovetail joinery on the case

Hand cutting dovetails

hand planing all surfaces smooth

Mitered dovetail joinery on the feet/base

fitting the dovetailed base

Mitered Dovetail Joinery

dovetailed base

Exposed Dovetail Joinery on the base

Curly Cherry Chest with drawer fronts fit

Fitting all drawer parts on two custom chests before cutting the dovetail joinery

fitting drawer parts on two chests

260 hand cut dovetail between the 15 drawers

hand cut dovetails

Solid poplar chest back

23” wide poplar back panels

Dovetail Joinery fit on the drawers

hand cut dovetailed drawers

Exposed Dovetail joinery on the chest top

hand cut dovetail joinery

Curly Cherry chest is now complete and ready for finish

Chest ready for finish

Turning the solid cherry knobs, the knobs will graduate slightly to match the graduated drawers

turned cherry knobs

exposed dovetailed case top

Curly Cherry Chest of Drawers

Curly Cherry Chest

hand cut dovetailed base

dovetailed drawer dividers

hand cut dovetailed drawers

Curly Cherry Chest of Drawers

Curly Cherry Chest of Drawers

Monday, March 10, 2014

Chippendale Slant Front Desk

Chippendale Slant Front Desk

Doucette and Wolfe Furniture Makers

Chippendale Slant Front Desk

This Slant Front Desk is custom made of solid premium grade South American Mahogany. This desk was custom made for a client with details to accompany a Massachusetts Block Front Chest in the same room. The Interior for this desk was custom made with a traditional look but for the use with modern electronics including a laptop and iPad.

Slant Front Desk detail

This desk is made from solid mahogany. One 20” wide plank for the case sides and top and another 20” wide plank with nice ribbon/figure for the drawer fronts and lid.