Art / Misc Portfolio

Plaques and Cocktail Serving Trays

At work we have a biennial golf tournament called The Falvey Cup. 12 golfers from Falvey Insurance Group face off against 12 players from Lloyd’s of London, whom we have a close business relationship with, Ryder Cup style. This year I was commissioned to make 24 plaques as trophies for the players and a cocktail serving trays for each of the team captains. 12 of the plaques say CHAMPIONS on them, the other 12 do not. The trays have the commemorative coins from each Falvey Cup that has taken place, beneath a layer of epoxy.

The plaques are Black Walnut with satin polyurethane. The trays are Sapele (a variety of African Mahogany) with Maple splines and semi gloss polyurethane.

Portfolio Woodworkers Fighting Cancer

2021 – Rolling Pin and Cutting Board

Matching rolling pin and woven cutting board set. Both are made from naturally colored solid hardwoods. No stains or dyes were used. They are made from mahogany, cherry, maple, oak, walnut, blood wood, yellowheart, and purpleheart. Both are finished with Walrus Oil, a food safe blend of coconut oil, beeswax, mineral oil, and Vitamin E. All lumber and finishes came from Koszela Lumber in Coventry RI.

This year there was no official Woodworkers Fighting Cancer program. However, I wanted to continue the tradition and my donation to the cause. I picked this project out myself, and raffled it off as usual with every dollar of the raffle ticket sales going to the previous year’s charity St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

263 tickets were sold, which brought in a total of $2,630 which was donated to St. Judes!

Furniture Portfolio

Bulldozer Bed

It holds a twin mattress. The track doubles as a step and lots of storage for toys, dozer tools, and the like. The headlights, amber running lights, and dome reading light are all individually controlled by toggle switches on the control panel. The ignition key must be in and in the run position for any lights to work. And of course, I can remotely turn on and off the whole thing from my phone.