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Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: Being Green Saves Green and Helps Everyone
3 commentsGrandma just couldn’t see the old family TV being hauled away. This past Christmas, she asked if I could make it into a storage cabinet for her quilts and also to hold...
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Maple and walnut room divider & desk
2 commentsMy client commissioned this two sided cabinet to serve as a room divider separating the bedroom and sitting room/office areas. The large panel in the center is a tambour concealing a...
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Dinning room buffet cabinets
These buffet style china/curio cabinets are made of oak with walnut inlay. The wall cabinets have smoked, beveled glass and crown molding continuous with the molding in the...
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Cure for the Common Cabinet: Official Rules
2 commentsOfficial Rules for the Cure for the Common Cabinet Contest
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Alder Display Cabinet for Bronze Sculpture
The bronze sculpture presented challenges due to its heavy weight as well as the odd dimensions. The craftsman-inspired features are perhaps not un-"common", but I felt they complemented...
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Wife's Dresser
2 commentsThe cabinet is made of solid cherry with recessed cherry panels on the sides. The top is solid maple. The top row of drawer boxes are aromatic cedar. The remaining drawer boxes are...
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Toni Johnstone's Kitchen
2 commentsThese Cabinets and table are part of a huge reno I did on Toni Johnstone's house in Revelstoke B.C. Canada. All the Birch and was cut and milled from my land The yew was salvaged from logging slash...
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Walnut 4 drawer dresser
6 commentsThis was my first attempt at anything more complicated than a coffee table or cigar box. I've been contemplating something more complex for some time now and when my wife told me she was...
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shaker inspired dresser
6 commentsShaker inspired dresser with door. Made from yellow birch. It will be used for a change table for my daughter after she is born! All techniques used to build the piece were taken...
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Mahogany Vanity
A 3 section vanity, built of Honduran Mahogany and pre-finished maple plywood boxes. Doors and drawer fronts are made from Honduran Mahogany crotch wood. Top is cast concrete, provided by an...
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Curio cabinet
1 commentThis Curio I made for my neice as a wedding present. It is cherry with bveled glass and an inlay.
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C3D: chest of 3 drawers
4 commentsHere's the first piece of furniture that I decided to not only design but also build on my own. It's a chest of drawers made of mostly solid maple hardwood. The design is based on a play of curves...
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Toy Cabinet
3 commentsDecorative Toy Cabinet holds 12 baskets of various sizes. This unit stores a ton of the kid's "stuff" and the small baskets make it remarkably easy for the children to pull-out and put-away toys.
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Walking Tall Cabinet
This tall cabinet was made for the 2009 Design In Wood competition in San Diego, CA. where it took 3rd pl. in veneering & marquetry. The leg's are hand carved from redwood. All the moulding is...
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Bow Front Chest with conforming top
1 commentThe Bow Front Chest was two years in the making, one year for my wife to decide what she wanted in the foyer, and another year to build on the weekends. The drawer fronts were much eaiser to...
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Display Cabinet
1 commentThis display case was created using mortise and tenon joinery. The inlay was created by sandwiching a 1/4" thick board of walnut between 2, 1/4" thick boards of maple and then cutting slices...
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SWIRLZ DISPLAY CABINET
This display cabinet lets you see your valuables from both sides. Perfect as a room divider or allow light through the back by placing it near a window to enhance your trinkets inside. The...
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Pedestal
1 commentConceived to be a Deco-style pedestal, I thought, "Why not add storage space" to make it even more useful. Book-matched quarter-sawn white oak veneer over MDF is a striking and periodcorrect...
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CD Cabinet
2 commentsThese CD cabinets are made of wood recycled from discarded shipping pallets. The panels were resawn so the very bold grain could be book-matched around the sides and front of each piecenbsp...
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Full Sized Armoire
6'x 6' Armoire. Made from red oak with panel doors. This is my second woodworking project. The first was a walnut rocking chair for my Daughter-in-law.
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Teak Outdoor Kitchen Cabinet
6 commentsThis is a solid hardwood cabinet I built for my outdoor kitchen. There isn't one piece of plywood or veneer in this. Measures 6'6x3' and weighs about 600 lbs. The top, drawer...
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Chameleon Chest of Drawers, Display Case
2 commentsJust how many ways can 9 interchangeable components be configured? Well into the hundreds... The permutations have not been fully calculated. The Chameleon allows true user...
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Contest Description
Congratulations to our five winners! Mark Laub, of Minneapolis, Minn., won first prize with his After The Goldrush Lingerie Cabinet.
The rest of the winning lot included Bob Abbott of Lake Oswego, Ore., Michael Singer of Felton, Calif., Craig Thibodeau of San Diego, CA., and Craig Hopson of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The winners were awarded a clamp prize package from Bessey Tools.
First Prize
-4-piece "H" Style Pipe Clamp Set
-Bar Clamp Assortment with Mobile Rack
-K-Body REVO Framing Kit
-K-Body REVO Extender Kit:
-24 x 4" Light Duty Step-Over Clamps
Second Prize:
-4-piece "H" Style Pipe Clamp Set:
-K-Body REVO Framing Kit
-Body REVO Extender Kit:
Third, Fourth and Fifth Prize:
K-Body REVO Extender Kit
Contest ended Oct. 28 EST.
Winners were selected by the community.
Winners announced Nov. 6.
