This Japanese inspired coffee table is made from solid black walnut wood that was harvested less than 20 miles from my shop. The joinery is entirely handcut, including the Kumiko panel inset.

Kumiko like this is traditionally used in Japanese Shoji screens.

The Kumiko panel alone consists of 246 individually hand cut wood pieces.

The entire panel fit together using only friction, and must only be assembled once, as the burnished wood will not ever fit together tightly again if it were disassembled. In order to withstand the rigors of day to day use as well as shipping, I carefully glued the panel together.

The table top is attached to the base via steel pins which makes it appear to "float" above the base.

This solid walnut stool is height adjustable with a 2 inch diameter solid walnut screw.

The joinery is hand-cut and sculpted with spokeshaves to produce a gently flowing organic profile.

The joinery is reminiscent of the Penrose triangle. It is functionally a large wooden puzzle in that no pieces can be added or removed individually -- the entire base must be glued up at once, carefully tapping together the pieces with a mallet until they are flush.

This is a hollow vessel that I turned by hand on the lathe. It is made from a pear tree that was damaged in severe weather a few weeks ago in Lexington, Oklahoma. Despite being a large part of a log, it is very light because all the wood has been removed from the inside!

The entrance hole is the outer edge of the tree. The bark is what gives it that visually interesting texture and shape. All of the inside was carefully removed through that small hole.

Pepsi can for scale. Also shown is the remainder of the log that it came from.

This Tage Frid inspired stool is an exercise in efficiency. It only required a short 8/4 board and a handful of other small scraps. It is surprisingly very comfortable and I use it as my desk chair.

Hand cut angled dovetails are an extremely strong joint between the back to the seat.

Notice the black color on the legs -- because the wood was sourced from street trees, there were some nails in the wood. As the tree grew, the iron from the nail reacted with tannins in the wood staining a large section black. This would ordinarily be considered a defect but I decided to highlight it here to showcase the beauty to be found in urban wood.

Here are some engraved cutting boards. Despite the three toned color, these are made with actually only two wood species -- walnut and cherry. While the inner part of a walnut tree is that warm brown color, the wood near to the bark is almost white in appearance.

This cutting board is solid black walnut. The silky brown-purple color of black walnut is gorgeous, and even cooler is that the wood came from urban street trees in the St. Louis area.

This pecan slab desk was saved from the firewood pile at a sawmill about an hour east of Oklahoma City. The owner wasn't satisfied with the quality of the slab and was going to burn it in a bonfire, but he was happy to instead see it go to someone that might use it.

This humidor is made from solid black walnut with pecan wood splines.

The interior is lined with Spanish cedar that I reclaimed from some old cigar boxes.

I made these cufflinks from petrified wood that I found in College Station. I had to buy a rock saw to cut it because it is pure silica but if you look closely you can still see the wood grain!

Using 50 million year old wood found in the dirt at a frisbee golf course in a college town, it doesn't get more reclaimed or urban than that!

Amazingly there is a transparent streak in 'wood' grain. I am told that this means that there was a crack in the original tree that was filled in with colorless quartz.