Furniture by Alyssa Embry
Photo from production of The Cake
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Rocking Chair
This rocking chair is based off plans for a Stickley Style Rocking Chair, with modifications to the height to make it 2” taller, and general design details. The chair pieces, made from poplar, with pieces cut with either a table saw or bandsaw. The back slats are attached using mortise and tenon joints, each mortise was created by using a forstner bit to create a series of holes then chiseling out the edges to make a clean rectangle. All other connections are doweled together using ½” dowels. The carving is an original design done with a wood carving Dremel bit. The rockers were created by making a plywood jig then laminating strips of oak and then shaping with a ¼” grinder. The legs were cut to angles with a Japanese saw to rest on the rockers and then screwed and plugged from the underside. The finished chair was primed, painted and sealed. The seat is ½” plywood, 3” of upholstery foam and upholstered.
Finished Rocking Chair
Carving done with a Dremel and is my own design
Finished Rocking chair structure
Rockers created from strips of oak and laminated together using a jig I created. Once together, I used a 1/4" grinder to shape each rocker.
Eastlake Table
I began by selecting an image of the table I wanted to build and created a full scale drawing. I used poplar and cut the majority of the pieces on the bandsaw and did engravings using a Dremel. The legs connect to the lathed center column with dowel joints. The tabletop is connected using biscuit joints and screwed to a plate mounted on the top of the center column. The table was then stained and given a contact paper inlay.
Eastlake Table scaled up from a reference image
Inlay is painted wood patterned contact paper
Initial Stain treatment
Lathed center column based off my own design
Tabletop has rounded edges and the top is poplar biscuit jointed together
Legs are doweled together
Plant Stand
This table was made from poplar. The tabletop is biscuit jointed together and the slats connect into slots created with a forstner bit.
Furniture from The Cake
Scenic Design by Eduardo Sicangco
Collaboration with Jennings Leonard
Furniture built from 1/2” and 3/4” plywood.
Tantrum Theatre Production of The Cake
Cabinet Space with functional doors. Made from 1/2" Plywood
Cabinet doors given depth by lamenting a wood edge
Kitchen Storage space
Drawers are a facade using a router to give create the outline
Baking Counter- 3 units were built from plywood and attached with wiggle board and masonite. The bottom trim is layers of stacked luan strips.
Functional drawers
Shelving Units
Cake Pedestals
MDF rings cut in the bandsaw and followed with a hole saw for the top and bottom on the cake pedestals
Cake Pedestal Process Picture
PC: Anne Beller
Built from poplar with lathed legs and jointed together with dowels.
Piano Bench
Production of Silent Sky
Collaboration with Nick Bartleson. Scenic Design By Grayson Basina.
