Roselyn is the daughter-to-be of family friends Scott and Kate.  Julie’s friend Anni asked me a while ago about designing an heirloom-grade toy box as a new baby gift, so I did some research and came up with a few options.  The...

The blog is now two years old, as WordPress kindly reminded me last week.  Time to update the shop photos. Things aren’t that different from last year in the main working area.  The new router table is working out nicely and the...

When building the rolling storage unit I was bothered a lot by my inability to get the cabinet to stay square.  Part of the problem (though not all of it), I realized, was that I really don’t have a reliably flat surface to work on...

We’re not quite ready to plunk down the money for kitchen cabinets yet, but there was another itch in the house that needed scratching recently. Late last year I built a pair of really pretty snack tables: They’ve been...

With the case fully assembled, my storage unit was starting to look pretty good.  Now came the detail work. Shelves The three adjustable shelves are very simple things, just a painted plywood piece with a strip of maple at the front.  I...