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Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, part two

Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, pa...

Posted by on Dec 26, 2015 in Projects | Comments Off on Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, part two
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...
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Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, part one

Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, pa...

Posted by on Dec 20, 2015 in Projects | Comments Off on Roselyn’s Toy Chest build, part one
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...
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Roselyn’s Toy Chest, design

Roselyn’s Toy Chest, design

Posted by on Dec 18, 2015 in Projects | Comments Off on Roselyn’s Toy Chest, design
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...
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Shop Update 2015

Shop Update 2015

Posted by on Dec 6, 2015 in Shop | Comments Off on Shop Update 2015
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...
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Assembly Table Top

Assembly Table Top

Posted by on Oct 31, 2015 in Projects, Shop | Comments Off on Assembly Table Top
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...
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Julie’s Laptop Table

Julie’s Laptop Table

Posted by on Sep 12, 2015 in Projects | Comments Off on Julie’s Laptop Table
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...
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