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sink” lined with copper to go in the wide entrance hall at the Rappahannock Elementary School.
“An aunt of mine had a wide picture window, and she wanted something low enough and long enough, nearly seven feet, to go under it,” Ginger said. “Pat was able to make something to fit.”
Although he now makes larger furniture only on order, or for himself, Pat makes and sells many smaller items, such as shaving stands and coffee grinder style lamps. He markets these through Simeon Petri of Front Royal and Colonial Arts and Crafts in Winchester. The saving stands sell for $100 apiece and the lamps for about $45.
That price may seem expensive, Pat admitted, but he makes only a couple of dollars on each piece. “After I’ve bought the wood and hardward, like hinges and pulls—and in the case of the lamps the electrical fixings and shades — I haven’t made much.”
“But I enjoy it, and it is a hobby that will pay,” Pat said. “The smaller things are no trouble. I can cut the parts a dozen at a time.”
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