'I would say this was one of our most challenging and rewarding projects to date.'
- Ted Levendosky
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Kitchen and Living Room Cabinetry

This is the largest millwork job we have done as a company, and we really enjoyed this one. We provided the woodwork for the renovation of the chapel at St. Joseph's Hospital in Towson, MD. The biggest challenge by far was the construction of the 14 seven foot tall frames that surround the stained glass stations of the cross. All of the sequenced paneling was custom made from quartersawn kaya, an african mahogany. On all of the frames panels, there was a recurring v shaped pattern in the grain and we made sure that the v on the tops and bottoms always pointed in the direction of the altar, and the V on all of the sides pointed up. (You know, towards heaven. We considered a more circular pattern here, but our clients were catholic, not buddhist.)

Chapel at St Joseph Medical Center.
Chapel at St Joseph Medical Center.
view looking from altar of the nave and stations of the cross in the background
We custom built new wood panels and frames for the interior of this beautiful little chapel.
Panel layout in the woodshop to verifies all the pieces
Frame parts carefully laid out before assembly.
Rob holds a piece of wood cut perfectly on the table saw
It took longer to create this set-up on the saw for cutting perfect miters on the frame parts than it did to actually make the 112 cuts. They all turned out perfectly.
Finished panels constructed and awaiting finishing are stacked in the woodshop
Ready for finishing and then shipped for installation.
Custom made panels hang in the chapel with the stained glass stations of the cross insets
The panels frames installed. Because steel framed stained glass was inset within the panels, our tolerance was unusally small at 1/16 of an inch.
Close up of the a panel corner mock-up that tested the fabrication process and final result
A mock-up tests the accuracy of our setup.
Panel corner detail installed
Measure twice, cut once. The sucessful mock-up applied to the finish product.
view looking down the side aisle along the stations of the cross
Ted Levendosky routs a panel in the woodshop
Ted uses the router to cut the arcs in the upper panels. (Rob follows him around with a camera...)
Upper panels shown installed in the chapel
Veneer tape is applied to the edges of all the panels- our mechanized edgebander does not do curves...
panel with veneer tape being applied to its edges
A mock-up tests the accuracy of our setup.
Ted is a wood whisperer
Ted is a wood whisperer...
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