AboutGreg Scholl Expertise Questions on Woodworking, wood finishing and refinishing of all kinds, repairing furniture and wooden objects,Architectural details, Woodturning, carving, tool usage, product usage, some chemistry as it applies to woodworking and related interests,cabinet making and furniture construction/design, etc. I have experience with all manners of colorants, finishes, paints, stains, dyes, glazes, and coatings of all kinds.
Experience Fine furniture restorer and cabinet maker for over 30 years,serving high end Antique dealers, Interior designers, Collectors in the CT area. Sold, built, serviced, setup Home,Industrial and Commercial stationary woodworking tools for a major tool retailer in CT. for three years, sold hand and power tools, and offered instruction on use and care as well.I even have some Trade show Demo experience.
Organizations none at this time.
Publications Published in Fine Woodworking Magazine (12/97), included on Fine Woodworkings first "Best of Fine Woodworking" CD-ROM (2002) ...("27 year compilation of expert know-how"), local newspapers as well
Education/Credentials Art School at Silvermine Guild in Norwalk, CT., 9 year apprenticeship in a European run Cabinet and Restoration shop in CT., various classes on subjects having to do with the field.Seminars by Major tool manufacturers, Delta, Powermatic, Performax, Porter Cable, Skil/Bosch to name a few.
Past/Present Clients Many varied clients including work on Martha Stewarts' Westport, CT. show house, many fine Antique dealers and private collectors in and around Fairfield County and in Woodbury, CT.(the Antiques capital of CT.) Consulting for area Painting/Decorating and Building contractors on non painting issues..(staining, wood prep.,clear finishing, floor restoration and architectural detail restoration and repair, etc.), local Museums and Historical Societies.
Question Dear Greg,
I just received my delivery of custom made kitchen cabinets for our kitchen renovation. My wife and I had seen a very nice kitchen display at a home show. Dark cherry cabinets with many panels and drawers faced with burl wood. We loved it and after looking around decided to go with this custom order, After spending MANY thousands of dollars the pieces were delivered. Unfortunately many of the burl panels have what appear to be perfectly round 1" or so circles. It appears that possibly "bad" spots were "hole-sawed" out and filled with a round burl veneer discs. In addition, we remember that the burl drawer faces were pieced together rather neatly at the show (seams meeting in the middle of a drawer face creating evenly spaced pie shaped triangles is one example), but ours are made of randomly placed small squares. What are your thoughts and could you let me know asap.
Thank you, Jim Zaccaria 516 526 9986
Answer Hey Jim, first off let me try to dissuade you from posting a phone number in a public forum, not a good practice. What you're describing sounds like a common way to replace bad spots in the Burl grain pattern, they do punch out the area and replace it with a veneer patch, but this has to be done rather conscientiously, or the patches will be easily seen as different from the surrounding veneer. My thoughts are that this should have been made aware to you at the onset, and I'm sure they will have a disclaimer about how "wood is a natural product and therefore subject to variations in color and grain pattern, yada,yada,yada...." I'm surprised that Burl would be a choice as it's pretty hard to work with and definitely a chore to match up properly, and needs to be done by a skilled hand(and eye). I think you'll have to contact the manufacturer and bring this up, but I would be prepared to expect the above type of disclaimer...perhaps they'd be willing to swap out some of the drawer fronts for you, for a better veneer job, but they may get this stuff from a "foreign" source, if you get my drift.....see what they say and post back- regards- Greg
