The bowfront chest left a bad taste in my mouth, although Julie was happy with it. So I needed a project to cleanse my palette, as it were. Something challenging, but in a different way from the bowfront. And, ideally, something we...

We all get these projects from time to time, don’t we? In this case, it was a paper towel holder we’ve had for years that we’d finally had enough of. The design was fine, mind you. It’s designed to hold one roll,...

It was time for the final fitting and finishing … which, frankly, was some of the worst woodworking I’ve done in a long time. I’m pretty unhappy with the final product. But here goes. I suspected I had a problem when the...

With the case finished for now, I wanted to turn my attention to the tricky part of this build — making the curved drawer fronts. There are 12 total drawers, each with a drawer box front of 1/2″ poplar and a false front of...

My wife works hard, and finds time to do all sorts of things to make our lives better. So when she complained about her cheap-ass Ikea drawer units that were starting to fail, I jumped at the chance to make her something to replace them....

This one was quick and easy compared to the easel. I didn’t even draw anything, because it’s going in the same room as the dresser and chest of drawers and they wanted the same style. I still had the pattern from the legs of...