We just completed a complex reception desk for a company off of Route 128 in Waltham, MA. It was an unusual project full of elliptical shapes and acid-etched glass but more importantly, it was the Guild of Vermont Furnituremakers at their best. The tight schedule and complexity brought three shops together. Hawk Ridge Furniture, Mario Messina Designer Craftsman and Wilson Woodworking all worked in concert to complete the project. It felt like a NASA spaceship with different elements being constructed in different places, with the expectation of all the pieces effortlessly sliding together. Everything did slide together but it required a lot of effort and careful coordination. Hawk Ridge and Mario Messina worked on the mahogany base panels that hinged together. They ordered the acid-etched glass and designed a system to hold the corian transaction counters that cantileever. Wilson Woodworking created the desk top that resembles an aircraft wing, the difficlult part being the cutting of the curved maple nosing to fit the curved veneered panels. WW also did all of the finishing. We sprayed the desktop on Wednesday, loaded the van on Thursday and installed on Friday. This involved an early start Friday morning. The northern boys got up at 2:30 a.m. and rendezvoused with WW in order to beat the Boston morning rush hour. Surprisingly, everything went as planned. We finished by noon and quickly made our exit, glad to be out of the craziness of the Boston traffic and back to our quiet Vermont towns.
Michael Wilson
Wilson Woodworking
28 River St.
Windsor, VT 05089
Successfull cat herding ... 3 shops on the same schedule ... wow!, most impressive. Looks like it was an interesting and challenging project ... dan
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