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Scrap Wood Tablet Stand

Scrap Wood Tablet Stand

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...
Dice Towers

Dice Towers

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...
Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, completion

Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, co...

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...
Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, part two

Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, pa...

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...
Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, part one

Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, pa...

The build phase started, as usual, with me making a parts list and calculating the board feet.  Allowing for 20 percent spare, I figured I’d only need seven board-feet of maple and nine board-feet of poplar, which made this a pretty...