Iron Bridge Design

Custom and Vintage Furniture and Home Furnishings Custom, made to order furniture. Vintage industrial and mid-century pieces.

05/19/2021

Obey your …..
Just picked up this Kindt-Collins Master 30L 30” disc sander from a pattern shop. Super excited. Hydraulic lift and tilt on the table, integrated dust collection in the castings, all guards in place, no broken castings, everything is in really great shape. A few leaky hydraulic fittings, and plenty of greasy and dust to clean up, but overall a gem. This thing is a beast, can’t wait to get her up and running!

07/13/2020

For the sake of diversity, here’s my 20” Italian made Steton jointer / planer / mortiser combo, with a carbide insert head. Kind of a Frankenstein’s monster now with modifications I’ve done including the helical head, separate feed motor with VFD for variable feed rate (thanks for the inspiration), power raise and lower of table, DRO for cut height with auto-zero limit switch. Thanks for making a seriously robust machine that’s as good as new.

04/01/2019

Little hickory desk all wrapped up.

03/28/2019

Wet finish, no filters on the little hickory desk top. @ Westbrook, Connecticut

03/27/2019

Hickory desktop sanded and ready for finish.

03/26/2019

Find the seam.
I find myself using the jointer less and less to edge joint longer boards. This close-up of the glue line is the 2 hickory boards from the previous post, straight off of the slider with a 14” industrial rip blade. @ Westbrook, Connecticut

03/21/2019

Trial and (mostly) error. This land of misfit toys is a bunch of failed chair parts... designs that didn’t make the cut because they were either aesthetically or ergonomically garbage.

03/14/2019

Rear stretcher joinery detail, still on “working model no. 3”. Not sure if on the final version I’m going to leave this as a wedged thru tenon, or just go with a stub tenon. Either way, happy for the progress and proof of concept.

03/12/2019

Working out some joinery details for these dining chairs. Thru tenon close-up dry fit. Currently on “working model no. 3”. Can already see some more changes that need to happen.