What I'm Working On -- Mitch Roberson

Member Name: Mitch Roberson

City/Town, State: Nashville, TN

Website or blog: https://furnitude.blogspot.com

Title of Woodworking Project: Tage Frid-inspired Three-legged Stool

Project Category: Seating

Description: I've always loved Tage Frid's three-legged stool and decided to make a pair of them. I had a couple of funky pieces of maple with knot holes in them that I thought could be an interesting take on Frid's design. The stool is like a mini-course on woodworking because it includes angled dovetails, a mortise-and-tenon joint, lots of shaping, wedged through tenons and complex angles. 

Please see this blog post that contains links to the articles I wrote about the stool on the Craftsy woodworking blog.

What I'm Working On

I'd like to introduce a new series of posts called "What I'm Working On" to highlight the work of our guild members. We invite you to send in a brief description of something you're making or have completed recently. Please fill out this form and send some photos to informationcumberlandfg@gmail.com.

Thank you!
Mitch Roberson

Vanderbilt Arboretum Tour for Smartphones

The Vanderbilt University campus is home to over 6,000 trees representing 190 species. Thanks to the biology department, there is now a way to tour the arboretum with help from a smartphone: http://vanderbilt.edu/trees/tours/ .  Each of the 60+ trees on the tour has its own webpage complete with photos, information about the species and the history of the specific tree. Some of the tree labels even have QR codes so you can scan them on your phone and be directed to the webpage. Whether you are a fan of Juglans nigra (black walnut) or Maclura pomifera (osage orange), it's great to see the trees in their natural setting.  

Fall Meeting Reminder

REMINDER

The Cumberland Furniture Guild Fall Meeting

The fall meeting will include a CNC demonstration by David Sapp as well as a demonstration of vintage hand tools by Bill Maddox

November 22, 2014

2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The meeting will be held at Woodcraft, 209 S. Royal Oaks Blvd Ste. 164, Franklin, TN 37064