This Alder desk was my last high school woodworking project ever. It was very much fun. I built everything old style: all mortise and tennon and dovetail dado, with no nails whatsoever. It will be going in my dads office for a large computer desk. To give a scale, the top is 71” X 40”. Im gonna miss high school woodshop though for sure..

I built these storage shelves in my grandparents house this last week. they’re built out of 2×4 and 16” shelving material. they turned out strong and will work perfectly for their storage. it was a pretty fun, and simple project.

FINALLY! This credenza has been on the back of my mind sitting in the back of the shop at my school for over a year. Finally i did the finishing touches on it to finish it for my dads office. This started out as a project my dad and I started last year in a night woodshop class. we never finished it and, upon realization that I’m almost graduated, decided it was time to pull it out. It had various dents and marks from just sitting there with people banging it upon passing by every once in a while, but the putty and sanding worked miracles! It is now in my dads office and looks great! It soon will have a matching computer desk that should be on here within a month or so.. Both are knotty alder (a personal favorite).

I built this dresser in school woodshop. it is built out of Knotty Alder. The inlays on the front raised panels are walnut. Both sides are double raised panels also. I’ve learned alot from this one, like every one. i finished this with Sanding Sealer and Laquer. im not exactly sure what brand it is, but to me it looks great.

I built this bed in woodshop starting in the end of august and finished in november. both the headboard and the footboard are double raised panels. The inlays on the footboard are mahogany and on the headboard they are walnut. It is probably the best project i’ve ever built. During the finishing process, we didn’t have any sanding sealer, only topcoat. So we put 3 coats of topcoat with a light sanding in between each coat.

This is the finished nightstand product. it took me a long time to get this on here, ive been real busy lately. this is made from knotty alder, and i finished it with two coats of sanding sealer, scuff sanding between coats, and one top coat of laquer. I really like the look of this finish on knotty alder, so i do most all my alder projects with it. this was a very fun project, and i learned alot from it. The hinges are european made by blum and can adjust in any direction. they are used for inset doors to even out the gaps. Inside the cabinet is an adjustable shelve. It works very well for my woodworking catalogs. I have some more shelves coming and should be on within two weeks (hopefully sooner). Thanks!

this is the knotty alder night stand that im working on right now, it wont be done till’ sometime next week, because i still have to fasten the top on, make a couple of adjustments, put some pulls on the drawer and cabinate door, and then put some sanding sealer and laquer on it. the finished product should be on next week or so… also, i updated our progress on me and my dad’s credenza, so check it out. its on page eight in the projects list.

these pictures were taken last night at me and my dads woodshop class that were taking. we glued the legs to the two side aprons (mortise and tennon) after making a 3/4” dado in both bottom aprons for the bottom shelf that you see sitting on the ground. if you look closely, you will see that on the long bottom shelf there are little notches on the corners, we couldn’t glue the shelf on because we still needed to make these notches a little bigger. its coming along pretty good so far, and im hoping for the same luck in the future! until next week…..

this is going to be my next project. i made these plans on a program called “sketchup” and i encourage everyone out there to try it! read my blog about it! anyways, me and my dad are making it out of knotty alder. we are attending a night shop class so he can learn a little about woodworking, and i made these plans to help us out.

i made this at home, out of some left over pine. i didn’t have very many tools to use, so i did what i could, i dont have a dado blade set for my tablesaw, so i made the rabbets with my router and a strait bit. i put a miniwax stain with sanding sealer and laquer on the outside.

i made most of this project in woodshop class, it was very fun! with a raised panel lid, and dovetailed joints.

This is a chess board that i constructed as a side project. its made of birch and walnut, and has two coats of sanding sealer, and 2 of laquer. i still havn’t made the chess pieces due to not having a lathe. i hope to spend some time and make some, but for now, im just ordering a set of chess pieces from rockler.