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Thanks, I used maple for the stretcher and quatersawn oak for the top. We had our first supper on it today... awesome.

Michael, the videos were most useful. I was afraid that it would give too much away and it'd feel like repeating someone else's work, but it didn't. This was a great resource. Thanks!

How does it floats? The illusion is very good.

Hey, it may no longer work as a coffee table, but it will as a latrine. It's cool, no really, I'm cool.

The table saw upstairs is also something that struck me... I need to find a way to get mine from the Garage to the Woodshop bunker tomorrow... gravity is on my side... but I don't want to count on it too much. This shop is awesome!

ncosman, yep. In a school setting, this is definitively a great feature. Forcing it on all tablesaw is another story, I agree.

Every time that I see a sawstop I wonder how likely it is for the mechanism to misfire because of a "false alarm". Anyone knows?
As for the actual topic of this post, well, forcing workers to be secured to something when they work on a roof isn't to take their freedom away, but to prevent falling down. Cash strapped businesses aren't in a good place to make up their own safety regulations... and it's their employees that pay the price (and their families).

It dawned on me this morning that my life would be much better with a caliper ($30-$50), or maybe that Smith&Wesson Gunstock set of carving tool ($35); it may not be as good as the $200 from Hirsch set from Lee-valley, but it'd be good enough to get going.

I feel you pain, lpower, as I have most of these tools in half a single garage. There is some material around for small shop, such as this article ( http://www.finewoodworking.com/Workshop/WorkshopArticle.aspx?id=29508 ) and I remember my wife getting me a book from the library called I think woodshop lust which had a chapter on single garage shops.

My "problem" is going to get solved as I'm about to get a new house with 700 sq.ft. shop under the double garage. It's going to take a while before I manage the money to make this space look full...

Does the book come with that fancy router fence? ;)

This is a fine piece of furniture. I'm curious as to what you meant when you say that you couldn't truly make it random.

I wonder if a version of this piece with contrasting veneers which would give it a look similar to Piet Mondrian's famous paintings.

Hat's off. I'm putting a concept like this on my big pile of exciting project to try some day.

May it never ends!

This is one large scale project. I'd like to do this in my new kitchen, but at the pace I work, the kitchen would NEVER get done before we all starve.

I like the idea of embedding seashells into the crack in the middle. It is a nice way to harness what otherwise would be looked as a flaw.

The double dovetails look very good. That's the first time that I see something like this.

Wow. Newcomer here. Did you do this with a power carving tools?

Very nice! You used the router to make concentric circles on both sides of the panel? Was tearing out a problem?

Earl1911, I've posted additional dimension info in the comments of the post linked in the first comment for this gallery entry.

"I make furniture this small because I have very limited space to work in."
That's what I call dealing creatively with a hard problem!

BTW, some pictures that I took as I went along are posted here:

http://bongotastic.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/building-a-workbench-ii/

Got it to real use today: with two bench dogs made with simple piece of scraps and 3/4". The pipe clamps are really versatile (I ended up removing the piece of wood on the vise most of the time). As for diagram, all that I went with was this simple diagram (http://bongotastic.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/building-a-workbench/) and I sized everything as I went along. I could annotate the sketch with some dimensions if anyone is interested.

Looking good... I look forward to retirement too. Dans 30 ans!

You mean that you bore a 3/4" tunnel through a 5/4" X 5/4" piece of wood? How did you do that?

Are you looking only for seasoned pros or would you be interested in relatively newcomers to woodworking? The upside is that the readership would relate better to their shop and range of tools, the projects would naturally be appropriate, and there could be a bigger emphasis on lesson learned during a project. The downside is that the author isn't authoritative. Not all beginners would fit the bill for it, but I'd probably submit something if this is an option.

Very nice. I wouldn't get away with this in my small dining room!

This is a very nice design: the arches, the extruding tenon in the corner and how the slate and the wood complement each other.

I like the contrast between the legs and the upper section.

Looking great. I was thinking about TV table design and it dawned on me that these pieces don't need to be made deep anymore. Did you consider cutting the depth of the piece down to reflect today's TV thickness?