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  1. Japanese style Coat Hanger

    This is actually the first Japanese style piece of furniture we made. Hannes wanted to try to make the torii because he had never before made something like that. So he invented a way how to make the arc with the milling router. This is also the first time we made the Japanese joiners without...
  2. Entry way Mirror

    So once I finished the entryway bench, I figured I needed a mirror as well. Considering that I had a chunk of cherry left over from my dining table build I decided to resaw that and plane it down to 4/4 for the frame and use some left over walnut for the accent stiles. Like the entryway bench...
  3. Torii Coffee Table

    A coffee table built to mimic a Torii Gate. Well, two torii Gates. I wanted to use cherry and ebony but, ebony was a bit pricey so I used red oak with a ebony stain to cheat. I tried to mimic the torii gates of Asia. I experimented with potassium dichloride to give the cherry an aged look...
  4. Japanese Picture Frame

    This piece was inspired by the design of a traditional Japanese Torii Gateway, with a little twist i added to suspend a photograph in between two pieces of glass. I think i'll put a hanger on its back for the option of hanging it on a wall also. The whole thing is Spanish Cedar except for the...
  5. trio of tables

    This is a trio of tables made from a single large slab of maple covered with burls. Required lots of work to make the table tops smooth with no (little) tearout. The center of the slab was around 28" in width but tapered off on each end. Bases are all made with FSC certified cherry. Finish is...
  6. Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
    Hey there people, I just bought a beautiful old rockwell drill press. serial 15-085 made in guelph ontario canada. Absolutly mint condition. Only thing missing was the manual. Now obviously its not the end of the world. But I do sort of take a bit of care to have all the manuals to my tools so I...
  7. Woodworking Skill Share
    For those who have been waiting, here is the revised deign of my prototype slabbing jig posted at http://lumberjocks.com/topics/6756 There were some operational shortcomings with the original design, and I have attempted to correct the issues in this design. Note that I have not yet built &...
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