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This is a retro/modern table inspired by Googie architecture style. I call it The Jetsons Table. I made it from reclaimed cedar fence boards. Please watch the build video here:

This is a large jewerly case constructed of black walnut and figured cherry. The case is constructed with dovetail joinery. The drawers are designed utilizing the Hambidge progression, featuring dovetail joinery and burgundy velvet divided jewerly compartments. The design was inspired by a...

Body is matte-grey painted mdf. Drawer face and legs are cherry finished with BLO. Went for a mid-century modern feel for this one.

The basics About 10" square by 1-1/2" thick. The center box is about 7-1/2" square. Woods are (inside to outside) lacewood, purple heart, walnut, and white oak. The hour marks are copper rod stubs with a patina from ammonia. I ammonia fumed the outer white oak box in a 5-gallon bucket with...

New chair for 2017. My Z chair is modeled after a chair orginally design by Poul Jensen in the 1950's . This cherry chair with maple back slats was built using some cherry lumber orginally sawn by my neighbor in 2001 . I had just enough to finish the frame of the chair but i did have to...

I was at a show this past July and i had a similar piece to this one . It happened to sell prior to a friend who i havent seen in over 20 years stopped by. He loved the cabinet that had sold so i promised to make him one. Both the cherry and the maple were sourced from trees that were from our...

This was going to be a fun and challenging puzzle box right from the start, especially since I know a guy named Nick that just loves puzzles! There were two objectives on this one. I wanted to qualify this piece to being something that would fit into my 'Stem to Stern' category, which simply...

Here's an interesting project. This is a pulpit (podium) for iPad. It's made of reclaimed American Chestnut barn wood, steel, aluminum, and calf skin leather. The chestnut came from a barn we call our "Chestnut Barn" that we tore down in Pennsylvania. The patina on the surface was so nice and...

Happy New Year Everyone, My Granny first introduced me into puzzles, ...most likely in an attempt to get me to sit still for more than 5 minutes, haha. Though she is no longer on this plane of existance I have chose to remember and honour her with a 10 design series of puzzle boxes that use...

This contemporary table was one I built for fun. It's made from a reclaimed white oak "door buck" (threshold) from a stack we have at the yard. It's 3" thick and 24"x24". The cube is a 24"x24"x24" steel frame I welded and then had chrome dipped. It's a very simple design. I like having all the...

6 drawer black walnut dresser. 21 deepx 30 tall x 60 long. Finished with odies oil.

I made a large pixel Link from The Legend of Zelda for February's Art of Geek Challenge (its' a monthly geek-themed maker challenge). He's created from scrap 1/2" plywood. I used a router with a v-groove bit to make it look like the pixels are individual squares. I made a wooden pixel Mario...

I love it when I can combine woodworking and geeky things. I built a really large pixel Mario. This was a really fun (and really tedious) project that I created for the Modern Makers Podcast's Two 2×4 Challenge. The objective of the challenge was to create something using 70% of two 2×4 boards...

I made another wooden pixel project. This time it's Goomba from the NES edition of Super Mario Bros. I'm really happy with how he turned out. :) I documented project details on my blog. You can read the steps about it here. I pretty much repeated the steps for my pixel Link build on Goomba...

I decided to take a dive into making a traditionally upholstered chair. This chair has a internal framework of red oak that is joined with mortise and tenon joints. frame is then strung with zig zag springs . my partner Lisa did a wonderful job with the upholstery work. the upholstered frame is...

I designed a new Scrap-Bot, and decided that I needed my own army. This new Scrap-Bot is much more advanced than previous models. It has arm, waist, and head movement. A fancy dowl in the chest for style points, and some big clamp hands. (Clamp hands do NOT actually clamp.) They are made from...

recently completed walnut cabinet with bypass sliding doors. the cabinet doors features spalted walnut panels.

This is one of the h4s (hand-hewn four sides) softwood beams from our barn wood lot. The customer picked it out and gave us the dimensions. They wanted it natural (unfinished). It's held up by a red oak french cleat. The cleat sits in a routed out pocket in the back of the beam and is 3/4"...

This is my favorite project thus far and first I'm posting to this forum. A lot of the questions I originally had were answered through reading discussions of others with similar questions. Everything from WHICH GLUE??? (my favorites) to tips on bending wood. Of all of the research I did, I...

Most of the Andy styled boxes on this site are of his beautiful art wave-like boxes. But when planning on making this box for an anniversary present, I was looking at the contests and saw Andy's "Circa" radio box. I thought he did such a nice job I wanted to attempt it with a twist. They were...