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Handskeboks Box
Glove box of Maple and Morado.Handcut dovetails.Workshop-cut Morado veneer.French lacquered top.Mobile compartments.Carnauba and Beeswax finish. Made with handtools. Dimensions : 6.5" x 14" x...
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Bindemiddel Filing Cabinet
Filing cabinet of curly Birch, Black Walnut and laminated Birch.Dovetailed case, wedged through-tenon and mortise, and open slot mortise base.French lacquer and Tung oil finish. Made with...
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Æteriske Box
Box of Philippino Toog with mobile compartment. Handcut dovetails and open slot mortise.Tung oil exterior finish, light lacquer inside. Inspired from a James Krenov piece. Made with...
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Williamsburg Knife Box - Part 6
We're getting close to the end of this series - one more to do after this one, covering the base molding. In this penultimate part, we will add the Handle to the existing assembly of the Knife Box...
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Cabinet inspired by Garrett Hack
I first came across Garrett Hack's work when I joined finewoodworking.com a couple of years ago. His small hand plane tool cabinet was something I had always wanted to build. So when my beautiful...
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Knife Box - Williamsburg, Part 5
In the last blog post (Part 4), I showed making the dovetail pins in the Side component. In this video, I show how to use these already-made pins to create the matching tails in the End...
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Gun cabinet
Ash gun cabinet solid wood no plywood used to construct this. This handcrafted gun cabinet hold six rifles or shotguns, it displays them with a LED light with dimer and inside of display has trim on...
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Knife Box - Williamsburg, Part 4
In the last Part 3 of this series, I showed making the full-length Side and End components for the Williamsburg Knife Box. I also copied and flipped these components and placed on a full width box...
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Pint-sized arts and crafts cabinet
2 commentsHere's a great little project that packs in a big Arts and Crafts punch. It's a scaled-down version of an Arts and crafts display case that I had originally built for Fine Woodworking. It incorporates the same features as the original, but requires less lumber and effort to build.
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Low sofa table
A low sofa table commisioned to fit in an existing space. Designed to harmonize witht eh existing furniture, design sensibilities and color pallatte. In figure hard maple and walnut...
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Knife Box - Williamsburg, Part 3
This is Part 3 of a series of videos on building the Williamsburg Knife Box. In the previous blog entry, I showed the making of the half length symmetrical End and Side components, and ensuring that...
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Pennsylvania Tall Case clock
As many of you know the idea of building a period piece is sort of the true test of your skills. I have built many Mission and Art/Craft and contemporary pieces but building this tall case clock has...
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Reed Tansu
Commissioned in 2012 by client for private residence in Maryland. Although initial inspiration came from more traditional Tansu cabinets, some would say I have used the term incorrectly, I retained...
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9 drawer Figured Cherry/Hard Maple Dresser
Took me a while to complete…in between other jobs… from milling the lumber to the final coat of wax, it was a very satisfying project. Solid wood throughout, except side panels (1/4" Maple Ply...
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Knife Box - Williamsburg Conference
1 commentHere's a worthy challenge for woodworkers using SketchUp. Modeling this Williamsburg Knife Box requires execution of most key SketchUp Tools and features. The Box's compound angles, bold scroll...
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Guest apartment
We recently completed the addition of a small guest apartment and now I have been working on finishing it. We built custom mahogany cabinets for the kitchen and I have been busy making the furniture...
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What hand tools can't you live without?
64 commentsWhile building a travel tool chest I had to make a hard desicion about which hand tools would make the cut. I'll tell you what I settled on, but I want to know which tools would end up in your tool chest.
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It's impossible to cheat at woodworking
164 commentsIf anyone ever tells you that some woodworking technique (probably one for joints) is cheating, ignore that person. It's ridiculous. There is no cheating in woodworking.
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Scotch cabinet
2 commentsFine scotch whiskey simply doesn't deserve to be crammed in a liquor cabinet along with all the others. I wanted a home for my favourites. Built of Mahogany and Red Oak, it features a "floating"...
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