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Mr Wolfe's Roubo hybrid workbench. This is my first major wood project aside from a few small hardwood boxes and some picture frames. I've spent about 150 hours over a period of 5 weeks making this piece. My budget was about $200 on wood (I had the oak), $150 on the vises, the rail and hardware...

Number 16 in my 2019 Box Build. This started out as a regular handcut dovetail box made of pine and cedar. I have been wanting to shape the boxes lately, to add some curves to the straight sides and surfaces. I did this using mostly a few rasps including a very inexpensive "hand stitched"...

This is the second moxon I've built this year. I have used the goldgym barbell threaded rods with the star nuts for the hardware. The first one was smaller, about 12 inches between the screws on the vise chops, and I use it all the time for dovetails and planing small pieces and detail chisel...

This is a mitered and splined box of poplar, cedar and mesquite. It is number 17 in my 2019 Box Build. This one is a bit of a hodge podge of a box. I originally did the intarsia orchid for box number 16, my Soft Dovetail Box, but I didn't plan it out well and the orchid was orginally...

This is one of the first boxes I made a few years ago. I did a series trying different joinery methods. This one is one example of the dovetails I made. I used oak and mesquite. I confess, I used a jig for the dovetails and have since moved on to handwork. I will post some of the hand cut...

Octagonal Art Box Box number 33 in my recent box series. This is number 15 in my Adventures into Shape. I'm going with "Octagonal Art Box" but I had a few other titles including "Elegant Monstrosity" or "Monstrous Elegance" among others. I might rename it later. This is the first octagonal box...

I am very fortunate to have my mother in my life so this is a bowl that I've made for Mother's Day. It is from the same wood stock that I've been calling elm but it is probably better called mystery wood. It is a simple form that I seem to keep making but this one is a bit more refined that the...

In the Realm of Speculative Fiction. This piece is pure experimentation for me. What I mean is the carving, form and color are all new techniques for me. It is an end grain hollow vessel l turned from Ash with a lot of shaping and carving on the form. The vase is 7 inches tall and with the lid...

Box number 26 in my recent box series. This is number 11 in my Adventures into Shape. This box is built from poplar with hickory, cedar and mesquite for some of the parts. It is the 1st build with five sides that are dovetailed. It was meant as a prototype of sorts as I had a hard time...

Box number 19 in my recent box series. This is number 5 in my Adventures into Shape. This box is built from pine, cedar, poplar and the splines and beads are mesquite. I feel like this box better approaches the form I've been chasing in the last few boxes. It started out with thicker boards and...

Box number 20 in my recent box series. This is number 6 in my Adventures into Shape. This box is built from poplar and the splines and beads are mesquite. There are small pieces of cedar in the feet and the pull. The poplar is two different boards, the darker toned piece is a great chocolate...

Orchid Gift Box Box number 34 in my recent box series. This is another commissioned piece. This box is the result of a client selecting certain features from my previous builds and asking for a design that brings those features together. The wood selection includes walnut, ash, a tiny bit of...

Box number 27 in my recent box series. This is number 12 in my Adventures into Shape. This is the second pentagonal box I've built. The first has dovetails and the shaping is much more subtle. This one is built from poplar with pine, cedar, hickory and mesquite for some of the accent pieces and...

Box number 22 in my recent box series. This is number 8 in my Adventures into Shape. This box is built from pine, cedar, hickory? and poplar and the some features are mesquite and oak. It is a little different from my previous boxes as it does not have splines re-enforcing the edge glued...

"Inlaid" Dovetail Box Box number 29 in my recent box series. This box was commissioned by my same friend that commissioned the Fireman's Commemorative Box. It is made of reclaimed walnut along with ash and some mesquite inlays and splines. The inset ingot on the lid is a maple burl. The lid...

Box number 30 in my recent box series. This is number 13 in my Adventures into Shape. This box is an experiment built solely from plywood that I began in late June but set aside while making some commissioned pieces. Some of it was very successful and parts of it were a learning process. It is...

Box number 23 in my recent box series. This is number 9 in my Adventures into Shape. This box is built from pine, cedar and poplar. It is the 2nd build with 16 mitered and glued staves. It has dowels that secure each stave to the top and bottom rims. This box is shorter and stouter than the...

Box number 31 in my recent box series. This box was also commissioned by my friend that commissioned the Fireman's Commemorative Box and the Inlaid Dovetail Box. It is made of leopardwood, walnut and ash. The inset ingot on the lid is leopardwood. I used a table saw, jointer and planer to...

This is the third hand cut dovetail box I've made this month. I used reclaimed pallet wood (hickory I think) and I've only used handtools for this piece with the exception of a drill press for the cedar plug in the semicircle lift on the lid. I used brass screws as pins/rods for the hinged lid...

Here is number four in my handcut dovetail box series. It is poplar, which I actually am finding really easy to work with, with oak beads cut with my Stanley 45, and cedar for the bottom and the lid. And an oak "pull" on top along with a pine friction fit piece for the inside of the lid. I...