Handmade furniture, custom cabinets, fine woodworking
Slanted shelves for the shoes, horizontal shelves for glasses and sunglasses. But it didn’t start out to look like this… As usual, my projects begin with some requirements, like, the project will be built here, in this closet. That’s something I can’t change, like I can't change the requirement that it contain shelves for shoes... Continue Reading →
I use curves a lot in my designs. I have looked high and low for a large sanding drum and never found one. I need one now, so I have to make it myself. I’m making a trim piece that fits around a cylindrical wall safe, so I have a rectangle of wood with an... Continue Reading →
Powderpost beetles have returned to my woodshop, but this time I'm ready to up my game.
Rattan cane and Paradox Walnut. No artificial ingredients!
Save money - you can clean burnt sandpaper and reuse it!
A look at a antique children's dresser. How old is this thing?
A great book for anyone interested in the properties of wood species. Beautiful micro and macro color photos.
Terry gets a break!
Apropos with Kilauea erupting that I would turn my interests to igneous rock in my Kona Living collection!
100 year old houses have 100 year old heating systems, and that means big iron.
I finally read this, cover to cover. And now I don't just work with wood, I think about wood.
Repairing an old chair takes skill - and research!
This is such a universal problem, how to have a nice, tidy, media area that's still easy to reconfigure. There will always be another cable box, or game box, or router, or speaker, and how do you plug those in, how do you rout the wires and find the old dusty wires to remove them?... Continue Reading →
Custom cabinetry and sliding barn doors to cover the tv.
My edge sander.
People think of woodworking as mellow, but wood dust is dangerous.
Or just don't use wallpaper there!
A custom cabinet with some history
A gnarly bit of wood given new life and meaning.
Or, how I spent the weekend letting my OCD run wild.