Before I built my HDPE assembly table top, I used my knock-down work table base without a table top for my Penn State portable planer.  The planer sat on a plywood subbase with cleats  that captured the insides of the two rails on the...

This is another fast and easy scrap wood project that I designed and built in a couple of hours. It started when I bought a new Google Pixel C tablet.  The Pixel C is a beautiful tablet, but since I didn’t buy the optional accessory...

Mine is a very geeky family, as I’ve admitted before.  We play a lot of D&D.  As a result, we have a bunch of different gaming accessories (in fact, gaming is a primary use of the snack tables I built a while ago).  This scrap...

The toy chest was taking shape nicely.  I glued together the bits that I had done and went to work on the rest. Drawers Usually I tend to make simple box drawers with rabbet joints and a false front, but kids are very hard on drawers...

Arms The arms sit atop the legs, flush on the inside and rear while overhanging by 3/4 inch on the front and outer edges.  The rounded-off rectangle in the plan seemed a little boring to me, though, so I added in a slight taper to create...