Hey Lumberjocks!

This is my latest creation. A cherry chest with ebony inlay, ebony plugs and cedar bottom. Solid cherry panels.

Thanks for looking!

Hey gang!

I made this bed from cherry for my three year old son Porter. All of the joinery consists of floating tenons including the slats. I was able to find some really nice spalted cherry for a few of the slats. The remaining slats have some really nice pitch pockets that really appeal to me. It is my own design (my wife helped) and is finished with 3-coats of polyurethane (hvlp). This finish should tolerate some abuse from a 3-year old.

Headboard:

Footboard:

I have plenty of in progress pictures at my personal web site, but here are a few below. I was originally going to have a “P” inlayed in the center 6” footboard slat, but I was unhappy with the result and left it out (I batch cut three 6” center slats just in case).

Close up:

Pre-finish:

Parts:

Thanks for looking.

This is a dresser that I made for my son a couple of years ago.

It was a fun project to make. The side panels (maple ply) were put in last by inserting them into a rabbet from the inside and securing them with mending clips. I would NEVER do it this way again. Big PITA!

The pulls are hand made from cherry.

I love the grain in the top:

Comments welcome.
Want to see more details?
http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Dresser.htm

I finally finished my cherry/maple toy boxes for my two sons. It’s a good thing I don’t have five kids! Ughh.
These were fun to make. The legs, rails and lids are made from cherry and the panels are solid maple. Three coats of polyurethane (hvlp). The panels were pre-finished before assembly. The design is my own. In some of the pictures the flash really highlights the poly-dust from buffing with steel wool (Oops). The lid is curved in the front (difficult to tell from photos). For design and in process pictures click here. Comments welcome.

Toy Box Number 1:

Toy Box Number 2:

This is a train table I made for my son a few years ago. It holds a purchased scenery board.

This was my first (and only) attempt at a mitered half lap joint. I wanted a lot of strength at the corners to put up with the years of abuse from kids. So far it is holding up great.

Here are a couple of white oak benches I made for a relative 9/07. Panels are 1/4 sawn white oak ply. Finished with wipe on poly.

CAD:

Measurements:

Finished:

With purchased cushion:

I’m almost finished uploading some of my older projects, so bear with me… This is a table I finished in June of 2006 for my mother. It has a birds eye maple top (aka “King Chip Out Lumber”) which was a challenge to work with. The drawer pulls are made from cocobolo and the drawers were rabetted and plugged with cocobolo. I made this table before investing in a dovetail jig.

In progress:

Finished, but no finish yet:

Showing off cocobolo plugs:

Finished with several coats of Minwax’s “Tung Oil Finish”.

Thanks for looking.

This is a dining table that I completed a couple of years ago. Finished with several coats of wipe-on polyurethane.

In progress pics:

The wrap around cove was a nail biter for me. Router table (special sled) and core box bit.

The top was glued up in two stages, 4-inner then two on each side for a total of eight.

Finished:

Love those pitch pockets in cherry…

This is a project that I finished in July of 07. It was made from walnut to match my bed.

This project was a dovetails first for me:

In progress pic:

Carcass dry fit:

Hope you liked it!

Before I built this our mattress and box spring was on the floor (it had a kind of college feel). I finished this in february (‘07). I feel a little silly posting older projects, but I never got to post it here when I built it (didn’t know you guys existed!) so, what the heck.

I finished it with a couple of coats of minwax’s “Tung Oil Finish”.

Another view showing off the grain in the footboard slats:

Above you can see the indentions in the carpet from where the boxspring use to rest :^)

The bed breaks down using hardware I bought at Woodcraft. You have to mortise it into the legs:

Prefinish:

I installed a ledger on the rails to support the poplar slats that hold the boxspring (shown in CAD rendering). I also have a support in the center on the bed that supports the boxspring from the middle.

CAD:

Measurements can be found on my website if you want to build one!

Thanks for looking!! :^)