Mike Lyon

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Hand Print Stool

June 24, 1999 By Mike Lyon

This stool has cherry legs and a birch wood seats. I was tired of sanding, had made some ugly stretchers, and didn’t like the leg orientation, so I tried to pull this piece through with paint. I painted the legs and braces black, and then covered my hands with blue paint and picked up the stool. It turned […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Acrylic Paint, Birch Wood, Blue Paint, Blue Prints, Braces, Hand Prints, Lacquer Finish, Legs, Mistake, Orientation, Stretchers

Tiled Floor of vertical grain oak and padauk

July 25, 1998 By Mike Lyon

While building the dojo floor for the KC Shotokan Karate Club, we decided to leave an area for visitors and observers. We built benches along the windows, and I designed, built and laid this beautiful wood tile floor. First I measured the area, then designed the tile size (tiles had to be less than 4.5″ square so […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Beams, Beautiful, Benches, Dark Reddish Brown, Exact Scale, Finished Floor, Observers, Orientation, Padauk, Polyurethane, Scale Drawing, Shotokan Karate Club, Square Feet, Square Tiles, Stripes, Stuff, Tile Floor, Tile Size, Vertical Grain, Wood Tile

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