tag: dovetails
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Dream Workbench
53 commentsMy ultimate workbench-- finally finished! The bench has a tail vise, a 24" face vise, and a patternmaker's vise. Overall size is 36" x 92". The top is 4" thick laminated hard maple with a 5" bubinga...
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Hall Table
4 commentsEntrance way hall table with curved front. Veneered top has book matched sectors of quilted sapele and paduck sector pattern bounded by bent laminate edging. Aprons are bent laminate with a...
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Shaker-style end table
2 commentsThis Shaker-style end table (see Christian Becksvoort's article in Fine Woodworking #210) is the first piece of furniture I completed. It is made of cherry (curly cherry for the top) and poplar...
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Building a Cherry TV Cabinet with Hand Tools - Part II
11 commentsThis post covers in detail how I created the half blind dovetails that join the cabinet sides to the top. Below are ample photos and discussion of the process from laying out to sawing, chiseling and final fitting of the joints.
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Executive Desk
5 commentsThis Executive desk has been comissioned for a private collection. After I finished designing I mentioned to my client about Cuban Mahagony (Swietenia Mahagoni). After his approval I searched for...
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cherry half sideboard
2 commentsCherry half-sideboard. Quarter sawn sycamore is used as secondary wood for drawers. The pulls were carved from cherry crotch yielding the darker tone without using dye or stain. The crown molding...
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Colonial style kitchen
4 commentsColonial inspired kitchen. Made of cherry with curly cherry drawer fronts. It has inset doors and drwers with mortise an tenon beaded face frames. It has a hand rubbed oil/varnish blend finish with a...
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Fixing my miscut, dovetailed rail
7 commentsWorking through a mistake while building the Shaker side table from FWW 210.
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Skeletons in your cupboard
1 commentJewelry cabinet with watch winders.This walnut and spalted beech cabinet sits on an oak stand with cocobolo highlights.The drawer fronts (ribs) are sculpted in spalted beech with hard maple...
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Occasional Table
This occasional table was designed and constructed for the 12th annual Texas Furniture Makers Show. Paduak (veneer), Figured Soft Maple, Curly Hard Maple and Jatoba are the woods used in the...
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Chris Becksvoort and David Yepez: Mano a Mano
17 commentsIt takes a tough man to challenge Fine Woodworking contributing editor Chris Becksvoort to a dovetail face-off. Find out if David Yepez "has the gumption!"
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gab furniture & woodworks shop
2 commentsthis is my dream shop it is 24'x45' it is a project of mine that hopefully will soon come true! i've placed the machinery in order that will work for me. i design and build to others specs, i also...
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Bev Mart
This shop would be our attic. the walls are slanted, so table top tools work best for storing, and have floor space. This also allows me to stock lumber on the shorter knee walls. So far...
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zebrawood and birdseye maple side table
Hand-crafted piece of funiture built of: zebrawood legs and sides, wenge trim and drawer front, and birdseye maple for the top. It is all hand planed and hand dovetailed, drawboard...
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side table
1 commentThis is a hand crafted piece of funiture using waterfall bubinga , regular bubinga, and tiger maple for the shelf. The drawer is made of airomatic cedar. It is all hand...
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Birds eye Maple side table
This elegant side table was designed for a customer in Portsmouth NH. It has a hand dovetailed drawer and Ebony beading around the face.
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Floating Chair
2 commentsA recently completed design exploration. Maple bent laminations with walnut accents and held together with 1/2" birch dowels and marine plastic resin. Thanks' for looking!
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Ryan Floating Media Shelf
2 commentsRYAN FLOATING MEDIA SHELF with HANGING DRAWER + ZEBRAWOOD INLAY ** The shelf's final dimensions are: 116"L x 12"W x 5"H ** Finish is hand-rubbed oil & wax: 5 coats...
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