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my 5 yr old son always wants to be in the shop with me pretending hes working on his projects. i thought this would be simple and fun for me and him to work on. Its funny how much kids learn just from watching you. he helped assemble and glue up, and stained it himself with a little help. hehe

I've got two miter box saws, one of them somewhat dull, and the other pretty dull, and I need to ship them off for sharpening (still haven't found someone here in Santa Fe), one at a time, and rather than wrap the saw in bubble-wrap and cardboard, and have the USPS try hard to destroy it, I...

I recently bought a Milwaukee M18 Compact Router, and since it's a tool I won't be using often, I decided to build it a storage box right away, so I wouldn't lose any parts before I have a chance to use it. Pine sides, about 1/2 inch thick, dovetailed, with 1/4 inch Baltic birch plywood...

This time I have taken the HEALING HAND to another dimension. REALLY! This is 3+ life size and .875" deep. The frame is routed with a quote from famed naturalist Ansel Adams… "THE POWER OF IMAGINATION MAKES US INFINITE". This really resounded with me when I considered the scale of the hand...

How to use: Drop a small ball in the 2" hole in the top and it will roll down to the front of the drawer. Open the drawer, pull out the ball, and do it again… and again… and again… until you get bored. All joking aside, here is a quote from Nienhuis.com (the premier Montessori toy...

The last place that SWMBO and I lived, in San Diego was in a charming 1900's craftsman house. Part of its charm was things like the back door. You stepped out onto the stoop, and either figured out how to dance around the screen door to use the awkwardly placed steps to nowhere, or you donned...

Built from solid Red Oak. Each End cabinet contains an Apogee Acoustics High End Ribbon Speaker. They are 60" tall by 12" wide by 4" deep. Ribbon Speakers are known for perfect mid-ranges and crisp pristine highs. Behind the TV there's a KEF high end center channel speaker. Just to the right is...

My cousin approached me yesterday and said " I need a step stool " So we went out to the shop and set to making one. The wood is a maple that my father felled just before he passsed away in 2008. This same cousin and I milled it with his Alaska sawmill. When we were about half done Dan...

I rarely do commission work but this individual has been a longtime neighbor. They have a set of cameos and wanted to display them. Their living room furniture came as a set and they were unable to find a matching styled display table. I sketched the rooms furniture and after several models...

I found this idea on Pinterest , I have been getting a lot of inspiration from this site .. It's all made from scrap 3/4" plywood….

Here is a maple toy box I built as a 2nd birthday gift for our niece. Its made with some curly maple, mortise and tenon joints, book matched panels, butt joints with dowels to help secure them to each other. (why i did this I don't know, I just did) the bottom is 1/2" plywood. The idea was found...

I make a lot of panels out of smaller boards from pallets so I thought about it and came up with this design which I sketched up (with pencil and paper), and set out to find a similar version on the web that I could compare to. I am sure I'm not the first person to come up with this but I...

This is the last and largest of the three different sizes of butt joint boxes I used to make. The particular one was made of Gongalo Alves and Wenge. This larger box of the group of three has a small sliding tray that slides on small rails inserted in the front and backs. !/8" brass rod...

Last year I did a replacement contract for another teacher. He had previously made a simple box with the Year 8 students, but I did not like his proportions so I designed my own, still keeping essentially the same construction techniques. Pictures 5 & 6 show the first prototype, but I decided...