Gotham Woodworks

05/31/2024

Basement renovation continues. Home office is complete.

03/24/2024

Countertop installed and basement bathroom renovation is now complete.

03/16/2024

I love it when a plan comes together.

02/16/2024

Bathroom remodel. I’m happy with how the wardrobe and vanity turned out. It’s my first frameless cabinet project (usually I’m a face frame guy) but wanted a more modern look. I designed the cabinets in Mozaik and cut the parts on my Shopsabre CNC. I think I spent more time dialing in the door and drawer spacing than it took to cut all the parts. Thank goodness for Blum adjustable hinges. Next up: countertops and fixtures.

01/28/2024

Fitting doors for an upper bar cabinet.

03/12/2023

Just wrapped up an amazing week learning how to make European and North American doors at Alpine Technical Workshops in beautiful Ouray, Colorado. Thanks to Joe Calhoun for hosting us in his shop and being such a great instructor, and to Greg Godbout and his team at Rangate for organizing this event. I learned a ton and made some great new friends from Kentucky, Montana, Colorado and California.

01/12/2023

Making a Special Wedding Box

Here's a keepsake wedding box designed to memorialize the setting of the ceremony at a California vineyard. Using Aspire software and my Shopsabre CNC machine, I created this highly personal gift to commemorate this special occasion.

01/12/2023

Making a Headmaster's Desk

This was a fun project — a standup desk as a gift to a private school headmaster. The client commissioned me to make this unique desk with an industrial steel base and a top made from a tree taken down on his property. I engraved the logo for the school into the top and filled it with epoxy.

01/12/2023

Making a Wine Rack Table

A “riddling rack” is used in the champagne fermentation process. Riddling happens towards the end of the traditional method of making Champagne, and it is the process of periodically rotating a bottle a quarter of a turn while simultaneously tilting it until it's upside down. This movement cause...

01/12/2023

Making a 5' Diameter Top for the Mackenzie Table

In this blog post I describe the process I use for cutting a 5' diameter round top for my Mackenzie Dining Table. For this particular table I used solid white oak and made the cut on my Shopsabre CNC machine. Of course, as with most projects, there were some surprises along the way that required a b

04/21/2022

The Lizz Table. Made with quartersawn white oak.