Shawn Pixley

Agonizing over the best way to do something is not my best attribute. After finishing the drawer carcass, I had to decide on the intermediate top treatment. when designing the piece, I drew it as being walnut with a thin, tapered edge. while working on the carcass I had started to wonder whether the walnut upper cabinet corners (mimicking legs) would be set off better from the top if the top was maple, trimmed in walnut.

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After talking with SWMBO, she thought I was over working it. So I ended up making it out of walnut. I placed the better wood at the front and the breadboard ends as the field wood wouldn't be prominent. I use breadboard ends a lot, so why would this be different?

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I am a blended woodworker, but this is a job for hand tools.

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The construction was unremarkable, but the top structure looms (cue ominous sound effects).....