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Microwave hutch
A new kitchen backsplash created a desire to get the microwave off of the counter top, resulting in this self designed hutch. It is solid mahogany and mahogany plywood with a rich red mahogany...
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Bubinga Cabinet
9 commentsThis project started off a lot smaller then it ended up being. I started making the small door with the marquetry on the inside. I wasn't sure what I was doing with it, I just knew I...
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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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Corner China Cabinet
2 commentsI designed this china cabinet for some friends to match their dining room table. It is built with flame cherry, riff sawn cherry, cherry ply, and American black walnut. Walnut inlays...
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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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Computer Cabinet
1 commentI made this computer cabinet out of red oak and plywood. The iron scroll work in the doors were shutters that I found in an iron work shop. A few features of this cabinet are mounted...
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Entry Way Cabinet
1 commentThis cabinet was inspired by my wife, she wanted something impressive for the entry way of the house. We looked at several commercial cabinets but were not satisfied with the design or price. I had...
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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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Hickory key cabinet
1 commentThis is a key cabinet requested by my wife that I made from a couple of scrap doors left over from when the previous owner of our house had the cabinets installed. I cut them up and glued up some...
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Jewel Cabinet
5 commentsThe bamboo base joins 32 points in curved and angled space. The case is a perfect golden rectangle (PHI) banded with an intersecting inlaid wave pattern in steam bent rock maple that mimics the...
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Flamed Oak, butcher block grill cart
This was for a client who was in the shop and saw this piece of plywood and all of the flame on it and absolutely loved the sheet. I had the sheet for almost a year so I was more than happy 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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Funky Coffee Console Cabinet
3 commentsIt lives in an ice cream shoppe so that patrons can get a quick java pick-me-up after slipping into a sugar coma from the yummy ice cream. It's fitted with trash and recycle holes (leading to...
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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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Jewelry Cabinet
Seven drawer, wall-mounted jewelry cabinet with side-mounted necklace case. Cherry solid and veneer, spun aluminum "bowl", beech veneer, fiberglass panel, nickel-plated aluminum, mirror. [ 78h x 20w...
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Walnut Vanity
2 commentsMaterial is 8/4 solid walnut mitered and doweled at the ends. The sliding doors are solid 3/4 walnut. The cabinet is held up by metal brackets lag bolted to the studs.
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jewelry wall cabinet
5 commentsJewelry wall cabinet, made from air dried black walnut and European pear, blistered maple drawer fronts. Carcase splined with pear. Side panels are solid wood, edge glued on the curve between walnut...
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Entertainment Center with Mission Style Accents
This two-section Entertainment Center was built with Mission Accents. The sections are connected, but can just as easily be used as two separate cabinets in a larger space. The media...
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Behind Closed Doors
3 commentsThis is a cabinet that was inspired by Krenov with my own twists and turns. This box has a lot of different woodworking. There is marquetry, turning, carving, and different types of...
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Where's Waldo of Wood
5 commentsImagine you are doing a complex glue up and you place your clamps in just the right spot for the perfect assembly. You post signs to leave everything alone so the glue can set. You come in the next...
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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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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.











