Africam Mahogany, Wenge, acrylic black rod

There are no 'patterned ' radiuses. Every arch in this Contemporary Wood Gate is distinct. Inviting the sort of repeated scrutiny more commensurate with a painting than a Wood Gate.

   The lower section of the Mahogany Wood Gates has wenge pickets with black acrylic rods.

    The embedded wenge beading is featured on the solid panel inserts of the Gate Design.

  Prowell's vast collection of operatic LP's and the defense of these against a current of late night thieves . . .

  The homewner, a builder, plans to create side flanking panels, as well as an overhead assembly.

  A modest, nicely landscaped house in Petaluma, CA with the sudden focal point of an entry gate that is surprisingly subdued, given the design and potential to upstage everything else.

  Ben Prowell laying out the radius of the primary trusses

  Wanting the upstaging effect of an Entry Gate with a vanishing, swooping truss with plenty of muscle and girth

  WIt was the embedded wenge beading on the Wood Gate's panels that were recently mimicked on a patron's garage door. This small, seemingly innocent detail was enough to carry the precedent of the gates over to the garage doors and provide, in the end, a sense of like-minded design to the house. Hopefully we'll have site photos of this at some juncture.

   Odd, but a Garden Gate does in fact serve a purpose, and we must consider the inconvenience of any segment being too open and thereby inviting small animals to pass to and fro.

  It would be much much easier to fashion all the wenge stock to the same radius, and yet each one exemplifies a graduating arch away from the primary truss.

  Lots of little tenons joining each segment, marked and labeled so the absent-minded woodworker keeps it straight.

  There were of course no drawings for the original, beyond what was formed in Prowell's own mind.

  African Mahogany, unlike the western cedar of most of the CPW gates, requires a finish.