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Ok, here's a more serious project….. This is a Christmas gift project I made for my in-laws this week. It's 30" wide, 15" deep and will be 18" tall once the wheels are on. It's solid walnut except the drawer sides that are made from cherry. Good test of woodworking skills such as mortise &...

This was a small project I took on for a friend. He purchased the wood and asked me to build it to his specifications. The woods are Cacao de ************************* and Spalted Maple. It has through dovetails on all four corners and sliding dovetails for the shelves. I made quick work of it on the Leigh Jig.

Phew - I finally completed this project! It took me over a year (I started it, took 8 mo off from the shop, then returned to complete it). It's walnut with cherry bowties and pegs. Maple back, drawer sides, and carcass parts. This thing is a beast! Very stout and heavy! I learned a lot with...

I've owned the Leigh dovetail jig and the Leigh Mortise and Tenon jig for a few years now. There are lots of pieces and parts, as well as extremely helpful, well written user's manuals that come along with these top quality jigs. Until now, everything has been unceremoniously dumped in a...

I built this computer desk out of cherry plywood 3/4" and tiger wood (edge banding and drawer - keyboard and monitor stand and its drawer) in June. The underneath bookshelf is made of birch 1/4" plywood. But the drawer for the monitor stand was only completed yesterday, because I wanted to build...

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When I found out that my wife was pregnant I immediately decided that I wanted to build a dresser for my new child. I wanted it to be something that they would/could use for generations. My wife wanted something that we could use as a changing table, so that dictated the height. By the time I...