I know, I know. These are becoming overdone. Here is mine, made two just like this. One for my mother and one for my father-in-law. Padauk and H. Maple. Fun little project.

Here is a chess box that I just finished for my father for Christmas…This would conclude the second item that I have ever made (not including Jr. High many years ago). He has always wanted one. 90% of it was cut with my circular saw prior to buying my table saw. I am pretty happy with the result. Now I just need to get a Lathe to make the peices.

It is made of BloodWood, Red Oak, and Roak(I believe).

This is my first project. It is half done but some other things came up so I wanted to post up the partially completed product. My wife and I have two great danes, we got the second one back in April. The older dog has always had an elevated food/water bowl cabinet that her mom’s friend made for her about 4 years ago, it was made out of MDF with a white laminate. To keep the story short it was crap. So now that we have two Danes we wanted something that could feed them both that looked nicer. This is just the bottom half. I am going to make a top for it that with reach roughly 6.5’ tall. It will look alot like a china cabinet. It is made completely out of pine. Center bowl holds about 1.5 gallons.

Tyson

BTW- I learned alot on this project, both things to do and not do.