Walnut frame made as a Christmas gift for my father, who loves to ski and who also taught me how to ski.

The art within is from Circle Square Diamond, a company who makes SUPER cool “modern artwork for fans of mountains” – they basically map out the topography of ski mountains with the associated colors of green/blue/black according to the trail difficulty.

Shaving off a bit using a plane from 1908 that I restored

The most beautiful curls

Biscuit sizing

Biscuit fitting

Preparing to glue up

Biscuit wetting and placing

Clamping down

Clamped and crossing fingers

All dried

Preparing for route

Routing out inside

Making a “beeg mess” as my Dad would say

Tools for chiseling out the corners.

Corner chiseling

Corner chiseling

Corner chiseled

Semi-gloss polyurethane finish

Glass fitting

Glass fitting

Glass fitting

Backing fitting

Backing nailing

Mounting wire affixing

Mounting wire affixing

Mounting wire weaving

Finished!

Finished!

Finished!

Finished!

Finished!

Post-unwrapping for Christmas