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Custom Desk and Bookcase, part 2

Custom Desk and Bookcase, part 2

I started from the ground up on this one. The whole undercarriage is made of solid cherry, so that stock needed to be prepped and milled in the usual way. It took a little fiddling because one of the cherry boards had some nasty internal...
Custom Desk and Bookcase, part 1

Custom Desk and Bookcase, part 1

Just a quick note because it’s been two months since I posted anything. I’ve spent that time remaking parts of the fireplace mantle and refinishing Julie’s plant stand. But those aren’t sexy enough to do posts...
Fireplace Mantle

Fireplace Mantle

So here’s something a little different. A neighbor came up to me about a month ago and asked, could I make a fireplace mantle? I figured sure, why not? How hard can that be? It was to be 62″ wide, 5″ tall, and 8″...
Sarah’s Dresser

Sarah’s Dresser

Here is the other part of my daughter’s Christmas present. Yeah, it’s late. Dresser, drawn in Fusion 360 This dresser is basically a shortened version of the chest of drawers I made in December. It’s constructed almost...
Personalized Art Boxes

Personalized Art Boxes

These were done as gifts for my two nieces; the idea is to hold colored pencils, markers, and erasers and have capacity for more. There’s no plan for this one — it depends entirely on what you plan to put in them and what wood...
Knife Block

Knife Block

This was a quick experiment that worked out really well — enough so that I’ve already made one for my Mom, too. There’s no formal plan, because it’s going to depend on what knives you want to store in it and what...