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end panels web frames details of the frames face frames and drawers.  Top in place Details of top's frame, showing a center stretcher.  Plywood top sits in the rabbet around...

Just some views of this little Blanket Chest.    The picture of the inside of that coopered top shows qhat the wood looked like before the finish.    Simple raised [...]

Just a few pictures of that floating Top table.    

After shaping the head with the band-saw, I started to work the facial details with flat chisels and gouges. Basswood is a fantastic wood for carving: It is soft, homogeneous,...

Thomas Lie-Nielsen called this morning to ask if I was dropping out of the “Handplane Weekend” class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking on May 14-15 that I help...

Just a simple little table, small drawer.    Legs were tapered using a handplane,  mortises done with just a chisel.   About 24" high, by 24" square on the [...]

Fetch the yurt, honey. It looks like 2011 is going to be a nomadic year. I’ll be teaching classes all across the country and even in Germany in the coming...

 Old Tongue and groove Pine floor boards from an old school house.      Cleaned up, the T&G ripped off,    left a lot of 3/4' x 3"  [...]

 Since I don't have a router inlay kit, but still needed to make a few dutchman style patches for a table i made,  I went "old school'.       [...]

A pine table with a "floating top".    Tapered legs done with just a handplane.     Drawer front's grain matches the grain in the front apron, [...]

Some wide chisels and narrow plane irons don’t work well with the cheap-o side-clamp honing guide. They are too narrow to fit between the walls on the top of the...

SketchUp is a great tool for creating models of your next project, but where it really shines is when you want to quickly change a project. Whether it’s something you...