RiverCity Woodworks
Furniture and Highest Quality Custom Woodworking by Master Craftsman Hal Johnston. We build furniture, cabinets,
staircase parts, fireplace mantels, mirrors, repair furniture, build & repair boats and make custom moldings of any shape.
Everything built at RiverCity Woodworks is custom made using modern machinery for the sake of speed, and old fashioned techniques for quality and integrity.
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RiverCity Woodworks
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Staircase built of Fir for the posts, railings, risers & skirt boards, White Pine panels, rustic Red Oak stair treads.
Mortise & tenon joinery on railings. |
Two drawers under the landing are 3' deep.
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Cherry and Hard White Maple Mirror with Lavender Buttons.
Above: Craftsman Style Pull of Honduras
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Balcony Railings of VG Fir w/white pine panels.
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Panel construction in shop for balcony railings shown above. |
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GOLDEN TIGER BOARD
This was made to commemorate donors to Mosier Community School. |
This is the genuine mahogany board I made the columns & crown molding from.
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Closeup of carving, before it had a finish coating.
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The GOLDEN TIGER BOARD is made of genuing mahogany (the fluted columns & crown molding), tiger wood (behind the gold lettering and the bottom rail), wenge (the black trim for the horizontal rails), white maple (carved tiger) & curly maple veneer (this was applied to 3/4" maple veneer plywood for the lower panel).
No new wood was used for this project. Every piece was either something I had saved, that was left over or scrap from a previous project, or I had purchased or been given many years ago to save for something special.
No new wood was used for this project. Every piece was either something I had saved, that was left over or scrap from a previous project, or I had purchased or been given many years ago to save for something special.
Vertical Grain Fir Nightstands for a beautifully restored home in White Salmon, Washington. All solid wood. 14 mortise and tenon joints in each nightstand.
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One of the large interior projects I worked on a few years ago.
Above - Photo of the front of the home which shows the cupola I built of heart redwood over the driveway to the left.
Above - This photo shows the volutes at the bottom of the stair rails which I hand carved from a large block of mahogany. The lower edge has a carved rope molding not visible in these photos. I also built the curved niche on the upper side of the stairway as well as the large arched opening leading to the dining room
Above - This shows the staircase volutes again, as well as the living room fireplace mantel I built.
Above - Another view of the large archway.
Above - Another view of the living room fireplace mantel.
Above - In the great room I built the mirror on the right wall, as well as the curved shelf above the TV cabinet. The mirror frame is 11' tall, not including the cabinet below. I also built the simple little fireplace mantel to the right, and made the arched trusses for the ceiling, and also installed the paneled ceiling.
Above - Another view of the arched trusses & corbels, the fireplace mantel, and the mirror & curved moldings.
This little dining table, 36" x 60", is made of Elm. The top is English Elm, the base is Red Elm.
This image is of the Elm table during construction in my shop.
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Beech trestle table in the shop prior to finishing. High stretcher for more leg room since this was built to fit in a booth.
Here is a china cabinet built of cherry, much of it with a slightly curly figure. Dimensions: 60" wide x 90" tall |
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FURNITURE BUILT FOR A SMALL CHURCH IN HOOD RIVER
INCLUDES - ALTAR, LECTURN,PULPIT and PRAYER RAIL. The Center section of the rail and the middle kneeling riser slide out. Varnished parts are made of White Oak. 
Antique Barnwood
Folding Farm Table (Unfinished when photo was taken) |
This console cabinet was originally made of plastic coated particle board (left photo) and was sagging in the middle quite a bit. So I saved the glass doors (they're painted on the inside of the glass) and built a new cabinet out of Rose Gum Eucalyptus.
This farm table is made from recycled barn siding from Mill A, Washington and crate material from Brazil.
This is the prototype for 15 tables being produced to serve as rental wedding and event tables, which will be available summer of 2013 through RiverHood Rentals, in Hood River, Oregon. The cool thing about this table is that the legs fold up easily so the table can be transported easily, or if it is used as a backyard picnic table, it can be stored indoors when not being used. |
Recent Project
This is a recently completed beam mantle with a hand textured surface. |
Recent Project Alder beam mantle with dovetailed corners.
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Living Room of a home I built in 1996.
Kaya (Mahogany) cabinets in a high rise apartment, ready for TV above fireplace.
Partially completed Mahogany mantle in the shop, just about ready for shipping
(Crown molding is installed on site to go against ceiling).
(Crown molding is installed on site to go against ceiling).
Quartersawn white oak doors, made to replace some old worn out doors in Mosier Middle School.
Mosier School Doors
These two little doors (approximately 150 lbs. each) are solid quartersawn White Oak, with Wenge & Jatoba inlay.
They were fit to the old existing steel door frame.
The next stage will be to add a little entry roof and new trim.
These two little doors (approximately 150 lbs. each) are solid quartersawn White Oak, with Wenge & Jatoba inlay.
They were fit to the old existing steel door frame.
The next stage will be to add a little entry roof and new trim.
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OUTDOOR THINGS
FIREPLACE MANTLES
CUSTOM MOLDINGS
