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Here's a maple sink base I made based on homeowner sketches (yikes!). All material was rough cut to begin so all the milling too me quite a while. He wanted 4 inch thick legs so i ended up using 10/4 and gluiong up two pieces after carefully jointing them. My years in a handmade furinture...

The series for this project - here is quite in-depth, so I won't recreate it here. I'll just sum up… I got a stack of slats from a pallet from a local bearing shop all cut up nicely in a stack of 14"-16" pieces. Sorting them, I found many that appeared to be kinds of oak. I ran these over the...

This is my Scale Bell 407 model. I started it in January and finally finished it today. The length of the body (not counting the rotor blades) is 44", with the blades it is 52". The body is made out of cherry, if you're interested on how I managed to make it, check out my blog entrees here...

This is the finished mahogany serving tray I posted a 'work in progress' about earlier this month. I'm very pleased with the result. Check out the 4 min. movie I made about it on YouTube: - Frank Boer

I design this project to Comovar (a company here in Portugal). This wardrobe is 16mm thick, 0.58 m deep and has shelves and partitions. It has three boxes. One of them with 1mt and the other two with 0,50cm, 16mm. There are two drawers with 1mt. It comes in other colors too: grey and black and...

I bought this hardwood rocker from the local junk dealer for $10 and faux finished it to give it an aged, well worn look, then put a price tag of $175 on it. I didn't skimp on details on this project. It took hours of hand work to get this look. The varnished maple was sanded to give the faux...

March of this year 2006 an ad. appeared in our news paper, Southern Cherry in field seasoned 6 months. I told the wife I wanted to build her a desk, Her suggestion was to build a grandfather clock that we have wanted from the time we got married 45 years ago. The wood was cut from trees being...

For our minister's baby daughter.

I made this out of some of the cherry that my woodworking buddies and I had cut down, milled and then we air dryed it for one year. It was quite an expierence. We paid a sawyer to cut it down and mill it into 4/4 stock. We air dryed it ourselves. We put a lot of "sweat" equity into that wood...

This was just a quick practice project. I wanted to practice free hand routing, and I decided to make a sign for my daughter's bedroom door. every time we walk by her room, she runs in, grabs some toys and says "let's play". I figured this would be easy enough to do, and it turned out better...

A friend wanted a buffet/desk for their family room and gave me free range. I decided the environment needed a live edge floating anchor under their picture shelves. A quick trip to a local saw mill netted a nice wide pine slab that met the length, interest and width requirements. Sanding...