My latest shop project is designed to fix a long-standing problem: I built two of those carts almost 20 years ago, with the intention that they would help me keep things organized and handy.  They really haven’t worked out well....

The other day I re-entered my workshop for the first time in over a month.  I’m still not ready for serious woodworking — my foot is healing up nicely, but full weight bearing, carrying, and handling myself around power tools...

It’s been very quiet here for the past couple of months.  I actually do have a project in progress, but it’s not complete and it won’t be for a while because I am temporarily unable to use the shop. I had surgery...

The new bed wasn’t really finished until we had it assembled, of course.  And that depended on us getting a new mattress for it, since our then-current mattress was 15 years old and showing it. In the process of shopping, one of the...

After completing the cherry and walnut bedroom set, I had a fair amount of leftover 5/4 cherry in the shop and a desire to do something quick and a little different.  The design for this wall clock is largely derived from the lattice work...

Once I had my base pieces finished I made the walnut lattices that fit inside the cherry frames.  Sanding everything took almost a full day, thanks mostly to the tedium of breaking the edges on all those lattice strips. The simplest parts...