Let's see projects completed in 2017

[Christopher Charles]

Hello all,

To celebrate 2018, how about a review of projects completed this year?

I was able to get into the shop more this year than in the past couple of years. I finished a pair of desks. Well, almost... the one with the maple has yet to get set up in the house, but is finished:

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My other two major projects were boxes for my mother in-law and my mother, who both turned 70. A keepsake box for my mother in-law with sandpipers:

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And a jewelry box for my mom. The heron is her totem bird. I just finished this one and will post a build thread separately soon.

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Happy New Year all and hope to see projects from other folks!

Best,
Chris

[Stu Gillard]

Mainly restorations for me.
Quite a few old chairs, tables and cabinets.

The most recent were a couple of blanket boxes that were keepers.

Australian Red Cedar (late 1800's).

Before ...

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After ...

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Kauri Pine (signed and dated 1844 under the lid).

Before ...

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One commission was a gaming card box in Huon Pine and Australian Red Cedar.

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[Andrew Hughes]

Nice work guys. I like your sandpipers Christopher I swear Someday I'm going to try my hand at Marquetry. I've posted all my best work in the projects forum this past year. I ended the year making several walking canes cutting boards and beech spoons.
All my work is finished with hand tools and patience.
It would be great to see some of the work from the incredibly knowledgable members here. :)

[Jim Koepke]

There are a couple of projects from this year not including gifts for the grandchildren.

First was a piece of cabinetry:

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It has helped organize some more books and many smaller items.

Next was a box to replace an old shoe box holding my medications:

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Many of my projects do not get photographed. Some of my grandchildren are Harry Potter fans and wanted magic wands for Christmas.

My wife likes acorns so all the knobs on the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen have been replaced with acorns made of various woods on a lathe. The last three were recently finished, made of black walnut. It seems my stock of the fasteners needed to instal them has been wiped out.

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My recollection is this one is made of myrtle wood from Oregon.

Hopefully it will keep the wife happy and she might even cut me a little slack.

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[Mel Fulks]

That heron is a real study in design and craft. I know the bird is made of pieces .....but I don't know where the borders are!

[Rob Luter]

It was a slow year for me. Just a small table and a couple framed tiles.

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[Matt Evans]

A few replacement built-in cabinet doors for a client. Stain grade Ash, but they decided to paint. . . Milled with machines, but joinery is hand cut mortise and tenon.

A cherry trestle table with Ash base. Benches still need to be built for this one for seating.


I've got a few more, but have to find the pictures. . .

[Reinis Kanders]

Treasure chest for my kid. Even has a till inside:) Otherwise was a slow year, but a lot is planned for this one!

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[steven c newman]

I think I might have a couple worth showing off..
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A Candy Box, for the Wife's Pastor
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Made out of Cherry
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A small, Walnut & Cherry Chest.
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Raised panels, using a hand plane..
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"Pastor's Standing Desk" based on Underhill's Rachel's Standing Desk
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Curly Maple, with Cherry accents
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Not much inside...maybe a place to hide that Candy Box..
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Maple Hope/Blanket Chest...with a sliding tray. Curly, Birdseye, and Spalted Maple. Poplar for the tray's bottom.

[steven c newman]

Almost forgot ( and ran out of room..)
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Maple and Walnut Chest of Drawers
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Walnut strips to cover the through dovetails
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Hand planed raised panels, for the Frame & Panel sides..
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Top out of Curly Maple & Walnut.
First Project for 2018 will be a Stepback Cupboard out of Quarter sawn Ash....

[Christopher Charles]

Thanks Mel!

Excellent work all! Thanks for posting and keep 'em coming.

[jack duren]

Big round bowl...

[David Dalzell]

A dresser with Kwila (Merbau?) frame and QS Cherry for the rest.
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[David Dalzell]

It got sent off and arrived safely in Belgium. Lots of nervousness between shipping from California and safe arrival in Brussels Belgium.
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[Christopher Charles]

Jack, now that's a bowl! Is the diameter as large as it looks?

David, that's a beautiful dresser and very glad to hear it arrived safely.

[Oskar Sedell]

Those sandpipers are fantastic Christopher, they really have that shorebird feel. Many small projects last year, tools mostly. This Jack and smoothing kanna among them:

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But most important was moving, getting a shop space of my own and finally building a bench

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I wish you all a productive year with interesting builds!

[Mike Ontko]

There's a lot of nice work here. Mine pales in comparison, but then I'm not in it for the show quite yet ;)

I seem to remember completing more projects this year (mostly jigs and shop gear), but the dates on the pics in my photo albums will keep me honest.

Here are 2017's bigger completions (click headings to view additional album pics):

Cherry and fir bookcase (http://sawmillcreek.org/album.php?albumid=867)
http://sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=365696&d=1502289902

Cat tree (http://sawmillcreek.org/album.php?albumid=884) (a birch ply structure with steam bent ash glued around the rim of each platform)

http://sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=354091&d=1487190536

A Beer Caddy as a Christmas gift to my future SIL:

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...and a mobile bench for my benchtop router table:
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[Yonak Hawkins]

That heron http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=375300&d=1514994743 is a masterpiece.

[Christopher Charles]

Oskar, thanks, they came out pretty good. Those planes look great and I hope you find your new bench to be as big of a game changer as I did.

Mike, you clearly had a productive year. Your bookshelf is beautiful and is similar to one I recall in FWW.

Yonak, thank you for the kind words. Happily, the box arrived to my mum today and she was right pleased with it, so mission accomplished!

Best,
Chris

[Mark R Webster]

Here are a few of mine. :)

[Nathan Johnson]

There's a lot of nice work here. Mine pales in comparison, but then I'm not in it for the show quite yet ;)

I seem to remember completing more projects this year (mostly jigs and shop gear), but the dates on the pics in my photo albums will keep me honest.

Here are 2017's bigger completions (click headings to view additional album pics):

Cherry and fir bookcase (http://sawmillcreek.org/album.php?albumid=867)
http://sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=365696&d=1502289902

Cat tree (http://sawmillcreek.org/album.php?albumid=884) (a birch ply structure with steam bent ash glued around the rim of each platform)

http://sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=354091&d=1487190536

A Beer Caddy as a Christmas gift to my future SIL:

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...and a mobile bench for my benchtop router table:
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I may need to use your cat tree for inspiration.
My fiance is bent on getting a cat tower and I detest the store bought ones.

I quite like your bookcase also. Well done.

[Mike Ontko]

... Mike, you clearly had a productive year. Your bookshelf is beautiful and is similar to one I recall in FWW. ...
Best,
Chris

Thank's, Chris! That cherry and fir bookcase project in FWW (#161) is one and the same -- I bought the plans and referenced the article for details on the construction.

[Jim Tobias]

Here are a few....
Guitar was a makeover for my Guitar teacher.. Veneered Macassar Ebony and black lacquer
Cabinets were for a friend .... they were two sets of these for his Teardrop camper
Last box was for my Grandson to store "special things"

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[Jim Tobias]

Few more ... lots of boxes!

[Jim Tobias]

There were for 3 of my oldest Granddaughters. Small (4/6) keepsake boxes.

[Yonak Hawkins]

Jim, would you care to say something about your boxes ?

[John TenEyck]

Wow, some amazing work from you all. For me 2017 was mostly the year of the door:

These three are Sapele and dyed to match the what I think is Philippine mahogany woodwork.

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Then I did this house door in early Summer. Again, Sapele:

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I squeezed in some time to make a table for my deck. It's now begging for chairs to go with it. Yep, Sapele again. I love that stuff.

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And then another door project that I got installed at the end of November just before it turned cold. This one is white oak.

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2017 was a good year for doors it seems.

John

[Mike Ontko]

Jim, would you care to say something about your boxes ?

Indeed! Though they seem to speak out a lot on their own ;)

[Jim Tobias]

Yes Yonak....sorry, I had to run an errand. It took me so long to gather, resize pictures that I had to leave before leaving any detail. Now it is difficult to go back to original post.
I'll try to give a synopsis. Several of the boxes have patinated copper veneer panels. I purchased the copper veneer from Joe Woodworker. It was already patinated(chemical process.. different chemicals cause different reactions(colors/patterns) in the copper. I really like the look of this....it (IMHO) goes so well with so many different woods.
The other top panels are: inlay of crushed green malachite in a pattern that I transferred onto the wood and carefully carved out with Foredom.
Did string inlay of ebony and holly in a Roble veneered top panel using Lee Valley string inlay cutting tool. Design was my own random idea.
The guitar makeover....my guitar teacher(I began lessons 5 years ago at age 62 when I retired) had this Neil Schon (guitarist from Journey) guitar that he wanted refinished. he said he was not concerned about any historic value so away we went. he chose the Macassar Ebony veneer. I did a bookmatch on front and back and trimmed out with Black Lacquer. Then we used Rustoleum Hammered finish paint for the faceplate and dials, etc. I thought it turned out well....he loves it, so I'm happy.
The tissue box is from Wormy Chestnut. I had a piece that I kept looking at that had the knot in it..... I finally decided to make a tissue box using the knothole as the dispensing hole. Had to do a lot of smoothing so the tissues would catch.
The last couple of boxes on 2nd page(I think) were: 1 - Elm Burl with a turned Elm Burl lift/knob. 2 - Spalted sycamore top with an Oak acorn hull from my yard filled with coarsely crushed Tiger's Eye stone. I soaked/hardened the acorn hull with Polychryl and also filled the bottom inside with epoxy to firm it up.

[Mel Fulks]

Jim,I like them all, my favorite is the one with the concave sides. I've always preferred small boxes that look fragile. I notice that my eye always perceives a closed box to be "too thick" if they are smooth all over on when closed ...even if they actually are thin.

[Paul F Franklin]

Ok, I'll play. This jewelry chest is African Mahogany. The Gilpinoid legs were the biggest challenge (aside from the AM tending to potato chip when resawn). Technically it was completed in 2017, although it was a Christmas Present for 2016 (oh well, another IOU in a long history of IOUs!)

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[Greg Parrish]

Doesnt compete with with the projects posted before mine but I made this buffet for my wife for Christmas using a set of old interior solid wood doors that I picked up a while back and an oak butcher block top. The shelves and back are birch ply and the face trim is pine. Finished in a craft style with multiple colors of chalk paint and Polycrylic top coat. Again, nothing compared to the many great projects above but she likes it.

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[Jim Tobias]

Thanks Mel, I agree.....I like curves and different shapes in boxes. I also like to go outside of the Golden Ratio rule on occasion just for fun.

Jim

[Jim Tobias]

Very nice Paul. I like the looks of the box joints showing. Your comment about the African Mahogany just reminds me of my own issues when dealing with it. It can be prone to fuzziness and twisting/cupping, etc.

Jim

[Jim Tobias]

Mark,
Really nice looking chairs! I've not gotten around to tackling a chair build. I really want to five it a go.....your chairs may inspire me(give me the nerve) to try it.

jim

[Jim Tobias]

Christopher,
That is some gorgeous wood(curly) in the 2nd picture of your table. Is that spalted slightly? What wood?
Blown away by the bird marquetry! Wow. That is another thing on my woodworking "bucket list".

jim

[Yonak Hawkins]

Thanks for the explanation, Jim. They're all fascinating and striking .. real prize-worthy stuff. Thanks for displaying them.

[Hoang N Nguyen]

Here are a few of my projects from 2017. New house so lots of new projects! 375894375895375896375897

[Don Bullock]

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We have a wide opening between the kitchen area and family room in our home. Sometimes we want our dogs to stay in one of those areas. When we moved in a few years ago we put in a wide baby gate but the dogs finally wiped it out trying to go through the narrow opening side by side too many times.

As a result I designed this built this solution. Part of the opening is closed off by a bookshelf and I made a rolling gate for the rest of the opening that rolls behind the bookcase when it’s open. So far it’s worked out great.

The piece is made mostly from stained red oak that I had left over from past projects. I also bought some read oak boards for the top of the bookcase and the shelves. To fill in where I needed some wood I used some scrap black walnut as an accent wood.

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The bookcase now holds the photo albums we’ve created for out AKC Champions and a few pieces from our collection of basset figurines. Nadia, our youngest, is laying on the rug in the background.

[Michael Roberts]

What a great idea for a thread. There's some really cool work submitted so far.
Here are a couple pieces I made this year. The first is a mid-century modern tv console for a local audiophile. It has adjustable shelves within and frosted glass that allow the infrared from the remote controls to pass through.
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The second is an office credenza made of a mix of solid and veneered walnut, featuring front and end panels of highly figured walnut burl veneer. The credenza is deceptively complex since graceful curves at the front and side dictate that drawer fronts and doors also have to be curved. The sides and front components are made of layers of bending plywood and veneer bent against two separate forms. The hand-cut dovetailed file drawers ride on full-extension, soft-closing slides, and the doors are hung with brass knife hinges. Both the drawers and doors make use of push-to-open hardware to keep the front lines clean. This piece won Second Place overall at the 2017 Texas Furniture Makers Show
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[Tim M Tuttle]

I've only been in the hobby since this time last year so 2017 was full of shop projects, garage upgrades, etc. I only got around to a few projects that will live outside the shop.

The first project I did was some window boxes for my cousin. I built them out of MDO and Azek. They turned out great, better than I actually thought they would.

https://i.imgur.com/wR3UC99.jpg

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The next project was some cornhole boards. Again, for my cousin (that's a recurring theme here :D). These things were a pain. I made two sets total because I jacked up the first ones. In the end, they did turn out well.

https://i.imgur.com/VSrx5ul.jpg

Then my cousin wanted a really large cutting board so I made this one out of walnut, padauk and yellowheart. It's 36 x 16 and 1-3/4 thick.

https://i.imgur.com/SAoORH8.jpg

I posted that to Instagram and people seemed to like so I made some more for people to give as Christmas presents.

https://i.imgur.com/y5vTYLg.jpg

For my shop projects, I had four of note. The first was my assembly/outfeed table with a fold down extension. By far the best shop project I've built to date.

https://i.imgur.com/ECEQAyv.jpg

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Next was my drill press table. I dont use my drill press a ton yet but it sure make it easier to use.

https://i.imgur.com/a5Czoz2.jpg

One day I hope to build out one wall of my shop with a miter saw station with tons of storage. However, I wanted something in the meantime as stop gap. On a whim one Friday night I just started cutting some wood and playing around with things and ended up with this:

https://i.imgur.com/qLQOY6z.jpg

[Tim M Tuttle]

It got sent off and arrived safely in Belgium. Lots of nervousness between shipping from California and safe arrival in Brussels Belgium.
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Oh I dig that.

[Tim M Tuttle]

What a great idea for a thread. There's some really cool work submitted so far.
Here are a couple pieces I made this year. The first is a mid-century modern tv console for a local audiophile. It has adjustable shelves within and frosted glass that allow the infrared from the remote controls to pass through.
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The second is an office credenza made of a mix of solid and veneered walnut, featuring front and end panels of highly figured walnut burl veneer. The credenza is deceptively complex since graceful curves at the front and side dictate that drawer fronts and doors also have to be curved. The sides and front components are made of layers of bending plywood and veneer bent against two separate forms. The hand-cut dovetailed file drawers ride on full-extension, soft-closing slides, and the doors are hung with brass knife hinges. Both the drawers and doors make use of push-to-open hardware to keep the front lines clean. This piece won Second Place overall at the 2017 Texas Furniture Makers Show
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Love mid century. That's good work.

[Yonak Hawkins]

Those are some really sharp looking projects, Tim. You have a good eye.

[Tim M Tuttle]

Those are some really sharp looking projects, Tim. You have a good eye.

Thanks! The techniques are coming to me pretty well but I sure am slow!

[andrew whicker]

These are great projects. I really really like that heron box.

My attempt at a bistro table (cherry with metal, bondo and paint):

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My attempt at a coffee table (walnut and glass):

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I did a lot of other stuff it seems, which is fun to look back on. However, these are probably the 'best of' category for me.

Fun looking at all of your projects. Love the dressers. Can't wait to make one.

[Tim M Tuttle]

Great looking projects, Andrew.

[Yonak Hawkins]

andrew, I really like that little glass undershelf on the coffee table. That's just the bees knees. How is it held in place ?

[Denis Kenzior]

Finished this in late spring last year. King size bed made from quarter sawn Sipo Mahogany (very close to Sapele), Wenge inlays and Pomelle Sapele veneer:
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[Cary Falk]

before
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And this sofa table.
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[Aaron Conway]

My finest piece yet. Was supposed to be a tool chest for hand tools but my wife immediately claimed it for our living room.

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[Pat Barry]

Here is a pine kitchen hutch I made last year for my wife for our cabin. I installed dimmable LED strip lights inside the cabinet to show off the dinner plates, knick knacks she wanted to have on display. Combination of power tools, hand tools used throughout build.
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[Chet R Parks]

Good job Pat, that would look right at home in my cabin too. :)

[Bruce Mack]

I have completed a model of a house in Archangel, Russia built by Nicolai Sutyagin in the 1990s to 2008 when it was torn down. Limited information and some photographs are available on the internet. I was fascinated by it and have been building a model with thin sheets of resawn pine. Size is 25" x 32" x 58". The most difficult part was weathering it with plaster, paint, and stain. I'll try to get it into the crafts building of the MN State Fair for 2018. I hope some enjoy this.

[andrew whicker]

Hi, sorry and thanks for the compliment!

I made a cut almost end to end for it sit in and get captured. Here is a photo that might help.

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[Yonak Hawkins]

Very cool.

[David Helm]

377552 My last 2017 project. Bookmatched Big Leaf Maple with Claro Walnut butterflies. Apron and legs highly figured Big Leaf Maple.377553 I apologize for the poor photography. Not very skilled at that.

[Bruce Mack]

That top is handsome. No apologies needed.

[Terry Starch]

Very nice stuff everyone. Here is my first cedar chest I built. A friend of mine got married and I gave it to them as a gift.
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Not sure why this picture is upside down.

[DAVID DEWINTER]

I just got into woodworking last year and hadn't made anything since shop class in the 8th grade back in 1969. Most of my 'building' these past years has been metal work building various aircraft. This is my first post on the forum but I have been reading it for some time now.

I completed two main projects last year. The first is a grandfather clock. Made with cherry and finished with just boiled linseed oil.
No idea why the picture came out sideways. Can't figure out how to rotate it. Anyway, just turn your head sideways. :D Think I got it fixed.

The second is a kitchen cabinet for the wife. It's made out of solid red oak.

[Terry Starch]

Here is my first cedar chest I've built. I built it with ash and walnut. I then layered the inside with cedar. Also, I used my Powermatic mortising machine on it for the first time. I built it for a friend of mine for his wedding gift. He and his wife love it.
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[Yonak Hawkins]

Pic didn't come through for me.

[David Helm]

Pic didn't come through for me.
Same here
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[Allen Derton]

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Just got into woodworking last year. Recently moved to Japan and needed a table so I decided to build one. The wood came from the beams of an old Japanese farmhouse that was torn down. I got the last of the available lumber and it was in rough shape so I decided to salvage what I could and build a butcherblock style table. Wood is Japanese white oak (nara). Table is 2 inches thick with an inner border of maple (kaede) finished with a 3 inch oak border. Base is Japanese cedar (sugi) but I'm probably going to change it when we get back stateside.

[dennis thompson]

Don"t know if these qualify as"woodworking" but I've been making toys for my grandson, a santa sled and a pirate ship.
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[Yonak Hawkins]

What fun ! It sure looks like woodworking to me. ..Very attractive toys.

[David Utterback]

Those toys are great. May they last for generations!


Don"t know if these qualify as"woodworking" but I've been making toys for my grandson, a santa sled and a pirate ship.
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[Terry Starch]

Here is a cedar chest I made for a friend of mine's wedding gift. I bought a Powermatic mortiser and tried it out on this.

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[Yonak Hawkins]

Cool grain on the ash.