Athens Bar Corbel w/ Basket Weave

I remember the first bar that I built for a client. It was a beautiful cherry piece that sat in front of a massive cabinet that looked as though it came straight off the set of Cheers. Well, let me tell you, at that time Osborne Wood Products didn’t carry corbels. So, I had to, in my own crude way, hand carve 11 corbels for that bar. Please understand what it takes to carve a corbel. You carve one side, then the other side. Then you have to carve and mold the front. Sounds easy, right? Well, it took me almost 3 weeks to make those corbels from start to finish. Oh, if I could have only picked up the phone and just placed an order. Don’t we have it easy nowadays?

~Contributed by Charles Head, Beautiful Interiors