Early last year I got to brag here that we'd gotten a call from the set designers for the Coen Brothers remake of the classic western, True Grit. Well, as you're probably aware, the film is out and doing gangbusters at the box office. If you look closely, you'll see our frames (the oak ones—NOT the gold ones, of course) in the courthouse scenes near the beginning, in which Rooster Cogburn and Mattie Ross first meet up.
As is often the case.
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As is often the case, I've been making parts for about 30 inlaid boxes. The
woods are walnut and basswood. The fronts and backs are tenoned and the
ends ...
