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...

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...

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...

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...