Mike Lyon

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An Upholstered Bench with Eccentric Turned Legs

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

This month I built a bench for our living room.  It’s 18 inches high, 55 inches long, 19 inches deep and is the only upholstered furniture I’ve designed.  Linda and I picked out the fabric in advance and I intended my six legs to reflect the ovals design of the fabric. The six eccentric turnings […]

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: Curves, eccentric turning, Fabric, Flat Chisel, Lathe, Legs, Living Room, Shavings, Turnings, Upholstered Bench, Upholstered Furniture

A brief ‘break’ to make a table

November 20, 2005 By Mike Lyon

Several months ago, I promised my daughter, Allegra (Leggie, Legs, Lulu), I’d make a dining table for her apartment in Boulder… As she’s coming home for Thanksgiving, my wife has insisted that I postpone additional work on the big press to complete Leggie’s table… Mark Sfirri and I were roommates while we were teaching at […]

Filed Under: Furniture, Video Tagged With: Acrylics, Allegra, Anderson Ranch, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Apartment, Big Eye, Chairs, Circular Table, Coming Home, Cool Stuff, Dining Table, eccentric lathe, Lathe, Lulu, Mark Sfirri, Marker, Monster Table, Painting, Roommates, Spindle, Table Legs, Thanksgiving, Turning, Turnings

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