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Nice work!

I find it interesting that we both worked with arches in our table designs and posted right next to one another.

You are woodworking magician and a true artist. You honor our craft.

Thank you, Bret

Some fine doors indeed. Did you make the hardware also? What is the size and thickness?

Great work!

Bret

Nice work. I didn't even know sassafras was a tree. Very attractive wood. What's it like to work with?

Very handsome! I've used deer antler, brass, copper, and carbon fiber with some of my woodwork but never rocks. Clever.

Excellent workmanship, design and use of materials.

That is one serious bench. I like it!

Very, very nice. Sam would approve. I've got wood drying for a similar attempt of my own. I cant' wait.

Very nice. The carved leaf is a nice touch. Very similar to a box I posted in Knots Gallery titled "Carbon Fiber Hinge Fix"

Very handsom cabinet! I say handsom because it seems masculine to me although it also has elegance and is delicate at the same time.

I looked at all your posts. You have been busy! You are obviously a skilled woodworker. I appreciate your effort to push the envelope with your designs. It is difficult to create unique items. I'm not sure why so many wws do reproductions, we've all seen that before. All your woods seem to be very unique also with some sort of story to it, I like that. Taste being subjective, I can't say I agree with all your design decisions. I think it's proportions that I'm struggling with but if it's the way you want it don't change anything. I admire your creativity. Are you selling this stuff or do you just own a lot of tables?

I do sharpen my tools but it's a weak area for me and I could benefit from your class. I have one of those hand crank grinding wheels but find it akward to crank it with one hand and then grind your tool with only one hand. I used used to have a large antique snadstone grinding wheels with a foot treadle. It worked OK even though the wheel was out of round. I lost it or it was stolen but I haven't seen in twenty five years.

Nice work. I've never done this type of period style furniture but I appreciate the skill required.

Thanks for the info

I love this piece! Which parts are the mesquite? Did you make the western maple veneer yourself? Where did you find the maple? What substrat did you lay up the veneer on? I love Western Maple. You can find some really interesting grain although it's a little soft and subject to movement. Good job!

Very nice. Makes me want to build some chairs.

Wow. Bet that cost a pretty penny. Nice work. Nice contract. I am currently building a site built stair railing with some big box newels, 12" at the base, but no turnings. Maybe I'll post it if it seems worthy once It's complete

You have more patience than I. I admire the thought that you must have put into the intricate design. My desk top is not nearly as involved. I have about three days into the parquet work.

wow! Very nice. I work at jobsites mostly where tool boxes are subject to damage so I made them from plywood and must be portable. I designed them to stack on top of one another then snap together with draw latches. The bottom one has wheels so I can roll the whole thing around like a hand truck
when they are stacked together.

glstexas, thanks for your comment, yes there is a modesty panel, it just doesn't show in the photos. It has a curve on the bottom that matches the pencil drawer and is affixed to the two sides using a sliding dovetail which solidly ties the two sides together. I read some of your other comments. I have had the tremendous good fortune to have met both James Krenov and Sam Maloof. James actually made a visit to my shop brought by a mutual aquaintance and I took one of Sam's chair-building seminars at the University of Washington. They were both awesome.

An amazing piece of poplar to say the least! Great piece!

I am a professional woodworker/carpenter. I keep a Stanley low angled block plane in my tool box along with a little rabbet plane for tight spots and a Bosch power plane if I have to do the edge of a door or something. All of which I keep sharp and I don't let anybody use them except me. I use the block plane mostly for scribing or generally getting something to fit. I have a variety of other hand planes in my shop which I seldom use preferring to use my power equipment as it was intended although it is fun to cut a nice ribbon of wood shaving with a newly sharpened plane. I guess it would be nice to own a couple of those LN planes but I could not justify forking out that kind of dough for something I might seldom use. On the other hand, I have a nice set of Japanese chisels that I carry and enjoy using, and they weren't cheap thirty years ago when I bought them. Occasionally I'll build something entirely with hand tools to keep those skills in tune but it's impossible for me to make a living that way.

Thank you, very helpful!

I finally figured out how to miter moldings. Just draw the profile at the edge you want then use the "follow me" tool. This is now so easy I feel dumb for asking in the first place.

I'm a professional woodworker and I use sketchup freqently for sketching projects and find it very useful, but I still have much to learn. One technique I could really use is how to miter moldings. I tried intersecting the molding with an angled plane and then tried to erase the excess but it erased everything. I'm stumped.