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...

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...