Thomas J. MacDonald
Fine Furniture Maker
 
Fine Furniture Maker
Pictured above are the Secretary's feet before finishing and mounting.
 
This is a closeup of the completed foot after being finished and mounted to the 8.6 foot tall secretary.
Fine Furniture Maker
 
Fine Furniture Maker
This process, called book-matching, takes two pieces of the same block of wood. When folded open, like a book to match the grain, some great natural images can be found.
 

The closeup above shows Thomas hand tooling the patterns of a new cabinet he is working on.