I built this step stool to make it easier for my granddaughter to reach the toilette. The back is cut to fit closer, without a gap. Hand cut dovetails on Elm and a water poly finish.

Made with left over wood flooring. Sides are blood wood, top is canary wood and the bottom is curly maple.

Loosely base in other popular designs. It works great.

Made with Elm, it matches the 4 chairs, 2 arm chairs and my dining counter with the 3 matching bar stools. It is loosely based on M. Fortune’s article in FW. One end is square so it can be pushed in the corner when not needed. In the close position sits 6 and in the extended position up to 11 people. The chairs fit under the rim of the table to save some more space. The top was hand planed while the table was dry fit. At the end it required very little sanding. The finish is 3 coats of shellack and 3 coats of water based poly. The base is a trestle table design to match the style on the chairs.

My kids gave me this print of a heart made with pieces of wood. I decide to use Osage Orange for the frame because of the color and the character of the grain.

Inspired by some on line pictures of similar play stations. Made with 1/2 inch birch plywood. Fun project

This device is used to analyze the purity of honey. I am not a bee keeper, but I will be by next spring. This polariscope was made for the local chapter of Raritan Valley Beekeepers Association.

Made of plywood and pine and paint.

Made of left over white oak floor boards and 60’s glass.

I completed the construction of the bed, the nine drawer dresser, and the two night table in about 2 months, and it took me another nine years to the the mirror. So finally the set is complete. made of ash and finish with poly. The drawers are dovetailed (machine) and there are several secret compartments. It took only 4 hours to do the mirrors from machining to finish.

Made with walnut and elm trimmings. Dovetail carcass and drawers. Measures about 24” high by 19” wide and 12” deep.

The carcass is Elm, the front of the drawers is walnut and the sides are poplar. The door is a lattice design(FineWoodworking) made with cherry veneer and Elm frame.

Some more tools that I needed to complete some of my projects.

The rip saw is great for re sawing pieces that don’t fit in my band saw. The walnut panels on my jewelry box were cut with this tool. The blade is 1 inch wide and 24 ” long that I bought from some obscure site in Chicago. It tracks well but I rather have one that cut on both strokes. The wood is leftover sweet gum, and the dovetail holds by friction and pressure, no glue.

The fret saw is from a plan from www.toolsforworkingwood.com , and I use it to cut the waste in the dovetails. Done with left over Elm from my 6 chairs project.

Walnut and Elm with Pine in the drawer sides. Dovetailing with Pine is a real pleasure and the end grain adds a different look. Finished with brush able Lacquer.

I am so happy to finally finish this project. It tested my love for woodworking and my dislike of sanding. The wood is Elm, to match some bar stools that I build last year, the finish is shellac.

I did contemplate to build a jig to carve the six seats so they will have the same shape, but I opted for individual carving, and to my surprise the similarities are much more than I expected.

The carving and hand tool work in the legs went very smoothly and in an enjoyable manner. But the sanding took a long long time. I need a hiatus from chair making to recuperate. In defense of the sanding I must said that my muscle tone in my arms increase quiet a bit.

The set is 4 low back chairs and 2 armchairs to match. The style is Sam Maloof inspired, mostly in the joints and the round sexy lines.

Based on a chest from Finewoodworker magazine. Walnut, cedar planks for the interior and birds eye maple veneer on the outside of the panels. The soft closers work great.

Made of Elm and finish with linseed oil, shellac and a poly top coat. The joints in the chairs are based on Sam Maloof styles. The back rest pivots to be always on the “sweet spot” against the lower back.

Walnut and tiger maple and poplar for the base.

For the last few weeks I spend a lot of hours working in this project. It is based on Sam Maloof’s design. It was the most challenging, and most complicated and most enjoyable of all my projects. And I am very happy that it is over. It took about 80 hours of hands on work, and the shaping and sanding was about half of that. The finish is: 3 coats of shellac with a red/brown transtint dye, and 4 coats of poly.

This rocking chair is dedicated to my first born: Tami.

When I started this project, I felt a bit overwhelmed by the amount of different challenges that I foresaw, and imagining the ones that I did not. I already knew that it was meant for my oldest daughter. The memories of her early days as a baby and later, growing up to this day and to this great person that she is now, and the questions that we had as parents, if we are doing this right or wrong, or the uncertainties of the future(I guess this is what parents go through with the first born) kept me going day by day and helped me to build this rocking chair by surmounting some of the problems or by bypassing some others.

I had some great idea moments and some defeats( the arms where tossed to the fire pile and replaced with new ones), but overall it was a great journey. Besides Tami, we had two more kids, and I believe that we learn from our mistakes and improve on their lives. I feel the same way about the next rocker, and I am eager for the next trip…

This chair is inspired by Del Cover, build with cherry and finished with a wipe on poly.

For a play by play go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/zipi1zipi/CherryRockingChair?authkey=celtUOE6R74

While touring south Jersey we lodged one night at a Victorian inn in Cape Cod, and this particular device was situated by a very comfortable arm chair in our room. After pondering ( for several hours) about the use of this simple structure I found a set of instructions about it’s use written in the bottom.

I used some scrap pine and in a couple of hours made three of this foot rest as presents and to puzzle my family and friends.

In case you feel like building one, it has the shape of an upside “T” with one side of the “T” being 9”, the other one about 11”, for a total of 20” 3/4” and the perpendicular part about 18”, and 11” wide. It is surprisingly comfortable and easy to use. According to how tall you are, or how big are your feet, you can use the short side of the “T”, or the long side, which ever is more comfortable.