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Ann has been asking for a desk for over a year, and I’ve been designing it in my head for about that long too. A while back I had her sit down with me on pinterest to see what types of images she tended to like. See below for some of what she picked, butContinue reading “Ann’s Desk”

This weekend I worked really hard (at avoiding cutting the grass.) Lynn had a little cardboard organizer that was falling apart that she had asked I replace, so with open space in my worklist, I figured why not bang it out. How hard could it be? Oh ye who tempts fate…. I don’t know whatContinue reading “Lynn’s project and joinery practice”

After talking with a few friends and giving my scrap pile a good hard look, I figured why not make one of these just for us. The pine was alot harder to work with – it wanted to chip out and sand much more unevenly, but I managed to wrestle it into shape. Looking forwardContinue reading “Another Segmented Game Center Just for Us!”

This was the first time I’ve tried to make anything significant in a round shape. A coworker traded me some MCM furniture for this little guy. He’s really big into board games, and wanted a bespoke place to throw dice that would stand out as a conversation piece too. I couldn’t leave well enough alone,Continue reading “Segmented Game Center”

I finally got the bookcase done. It was a really challenging project to work on and there were many new skills I got to take a swing at trying out. Just a quick list – shop-sawn veneers for the shelves, stopped dados for the shelves going into the sides, 3 way miters for the topContinue reading “Finished the bookcase”

I started this Walnut bookcase back in October and have been slowly plugging away at it on the weekends ever since. I’ve been thinking about how to make it for about a year and it took that long for a few reasons. First – I thought long and hard about using solid wood or a plywood core. IContinue reading “January 2023”

The summer was a rough for woodworking. The temps in the garage door open or not were often close to 100 degrees. I had a commission I began working on back in May and didn’t finish until November. Some of it was just not having the time, some of it was the challenge of theContinue reading “Q4 2023”

This little adventure was full of many firsts. A coworker approached me after seeing a few of the other cutting boards I’d made and asked if I could do one for him. Sure! You want it a little more custom? Ok- I do custom work! Carve the state you’re from into the top of theContinue reading “Q2 Update”

Finishing up the easels for Japanese school went really well. Between the hickory I used for making them, the half laps pinned with homemade dowels and the glue, they’ll probably last for generations. I threw in a few bow-ties here and there, and the kids loved them – said the looked like ribbons. Then IContinue reading “Q1 update 2023”