Woodworker: John GushChicago-area woodworker John Gush built this Federal-style nightstand based on a Thomas Seymour worktable on display in the Winterthur Museum. He modified the dimensions to work as a small side table and omitted the usual suspended silk bag. The top is solid curly cherry, the legs are straight-grained cherry, and the serpentine drawer fronts are veneered in a tight-patterned birdseye maple with rosewood crossbanding.
The big motor on this collector left the chamber under my jointer very clean. You’ll need help to get this heavy unit onto its bracket, but if you’re looking for a central dust collector that won’t gobble floor space, this may be the unit for you. Strangely, this huge unit comes with the smallest plastic chip bag, but you can replace that with a taller one from Rockler.
The beam has deep detents that index the fence precisely at 1/2-in. increments, and there’s a well-machined and easy-to-read micrometer adjustment that will set the gauge to any distance between the indexed points. However, the detents are so positive that they sometimes interfere, drawing the fence toward them.
With its graceful curves, cabriole legs, and ornamental back splat, a Queen Anne side chair is a bucket list build for many woodworkers. Dan Faia had a very specific Queen…
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