Wilkinson Koa Furniture

12/16/2025

✨️✨️There are just a few days more to see the "Art of Furniture Making" exhibit of fine furniture at the Downtown Art Center, 2nd Floor Gallery on Nuuanu Avenue. This short video includes a few interviews of artists whose work is on display. Alan was one of those interviewed, so it is nice that Damien Zimmermann, videographer and editor, has graciously shared a link for us to post for our friends to enjoy. Thanks for checking it out! (Roz) ✨️✨️

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11/30/2025

There will be a great exhibition from December 5th through 20th, "The Art of Furniture Making," at the Downtown Art Center, 2nd Floor Gallery, at 1041 Nuuanu Avenue. Alan has 3 furniture pieces entered. We would love to have any of you who are interested in seeing his works and the works by other excellent invited artists stop by and view this special exhibition. (There is public parking 2 blocks mauka, at "Mark's Garage," and a municipal parking lot at Chinatown Gateway Plaza, parking entrance off Bethel Street. Parking at Mark's is by credit card only.) The Downtown Art Center days/hours open are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Here is a link to a brief video about the exhibition:

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09/20/2025

✨✨Greetings to those who have wanted to see the final photos of the Oak Slab Table that Alan created for customers who wished to have a one-of-a-kind dining table with space for 10-12 diners. The project took approximately 2.5 years from beginning to completion, and we delivered it in June. It is now September, as it has taken till today for us to post the photos. Brad Goda (of Brad Goda Photography) took the photos as soon as we were able to arrange a session with him on-site. Life has been hectic, and Alan has been building other projects in the meanwhile that we will post about in future, but for now, we would like to share two photos of the completed table with you. Thank you very much for your interest in this project and for your patience during the long "pause" between posts. (Roz)✨✨

03/13/2025

✨✨Alan and I are looking forward to him getting this table completed and delivered to the customers in mid-April. Meanwhile, there is work going on in the background to have a 90" Diameter, 1/2" thick glass top made for the tabletop to rest upon the now-leveled perimeter 7"-8" flat area all around the slab. Wherever there was need for support in the slightly-concave area in the middle of the slab, there are now the turned 1" oak dowels acting as "piers." leveled to the same height as the flat area of the perimeter. The photos are meant to show you as well as possible in the lighting at the front of the shop near the roll-door, the beauty of the Oak slab and the woods used to make the table base. We included the photo showing a bit of the underside of the tabletop with the supporting grid, the carved base arches, "chaps" and graduated screw-hole covers. Underneath the top, where the slab meets the grid, Alan used specially-machined brackets to attach the top and grid. The grid was already attached to the base at the time the top was laid onto and positioned to be permanently attached to the grid. For those who have followed this project, this will make some sense. If you are new to the project, you may look back in time a bit by scrolling down to earlier "Oak Slab Table" posts, the verbiage there will help to clarify the processes it has been through.✨✨(Roz)

03/13/2025

✨️✨️Here is another video of Alan, explaining the next steps necessary to complete the Oak Slab Table. We hope you enjoy another very informal "interview" we did a few weeks ago. More still photos will follow. Thank you for watching! ✨️✨️

01/19/2025

✨✨At long last, we are able to post the continuation of the Oak Slab Table project. It has been a two-year project thus far, and we hope to complete it this month or at the latest, in February. The customers will be back on the island in spring and we will deliver the finished project while they are here.✨✨
Meanwhile, here are photos showing some of the stages the slab has gone through at the machine shop and back at Alan's woodshop. There are more to be taken, but since this is a "hefty" load of photos and notes, it is time to post these. Thank you to everyone for waiting and for having a good look at these now that we finally have them here! ✨🌈🌴✨

12/01/2024

✨✨We thought it was time to make one more post of the side-table that Alan named "Bats" (because the drawers "hang" from the underside of the tabletop like bats hang from a cave ceiling). It has since been exhibited at the "Hawaii's Woodshow" that was held at the Neal Blaisdell Center Pikake Room for a full week. It was a pleasure to see old friends who came to see the varied presentations representing a wide spectrum of makers in a relatively small show space. It was also nice to meet new people, and some artists/makers who work with other materials besides wood. ✨✨

11/12/2024

✨✨Here are some photos of the drawer casings, and drawers in-progress for the side-table with the center post support. Each drawer is a different size, and when the piece is right-side-up, they will appear to be hanging from the underside of the tabletop like "bats," which has led Alan to name the piece "Bats." There is a video of Alan explaining a bit about the drawers, and finally, a photo of the blanks he would be turning to make the drawer-pulls. Thank you for looking! ✨✨

10/28/2024

Here is a very informal video that Alan and I made to explain the next part of the side-table (or "whiskey" table) project. Thank you for watching! (Roz)

10/23/2024

✨Here is another photo of the Side-Table with center post during the glue curing period, with the top, back and bottom/base joined together and supported in precise position with the post in place. This photo goes a step further than the "glue-up" shown previously, as Alan had by this time done some experimental "chocolate kiss" or "onion" shaped turnings to decide which shape and size would add interest to the tabletop as well as add a certain grace to the otherwise "flat-topped" look of the turned post where it meets the underside. In this photo, we have the "chocolate kiss"/"onion" turning that Alan selected from his experimental turnings, and a smaller version of the same shape that was not selected. Note that the small, shapely turning resting in front of the large one was too small to be proportionately aesthetically attractive, but the larger one, when centered to match the center point of the post below, would give the impression that it is an actual extension of the center post beneath the tabletop - as though it had passed right through the tabletop. The next step that Alan did for this project was to make four drawer "casings" attached to the underneath of the tabletop, and four drawers of varied sizes, with dovetail joints and turned pulls. His intention when making drawers of any size has always been to ensure they fit into the cases as perfectly as possible, a pleasure to open/close and use regularly. In our next post(s) about this project, we will share photos of the drawer casings, drawer parts, and the drawer-pull “blanks” (before being turned, and then when they were completed, turned drawer-pulls). Thank you for reading! ✨

{I like this photo because it also shows how much the big, turned "foot" of the center post overhangs the bottom of the table, and the rare "Blistered Koa" figure is evident because the oil finish had been applied. ✨🌈✨Roz)}