I started this project a week ago and got it finished last friday. I wanted to make a piece for my bedroom as it will be finished in the next few weeks and I wanted to put my mark on it.The usual place I get my timber from has no machinest anymore so they redirect me to a local joinery. Thanks to this I now get all my timber from them because I get the exact size timber I want at a resonable price.

I started by cutting the legs out for this project and used my router to cut the mortises. The tennons were then cut and I joined them together. I used titebond 2 woodglue for the mortise and tennon joints.

For the top I got double sided sellotape and put the two out pieces together and cut them on the mitre saw. I bought a 80Tooth blade for my saw to get quality cuts on the mitres. I joined the mitres with glue and used my pocket hole jig on them aswell. The day after I had the top on the bench along with the offcuts from the mitre. I was playing around with these offcuts inside the frame and I came up with the layout for the inside on the frame and it just came together from there on. I then finished it off by joining the top to the frame with pocket hole screws I then sanded it down with different grades of sand paper and gave it a coat of teak oil and to top it all off I waxed the top of it.

I decided to make a prototype of the wood whisperer pencil holders before I made a big batch of them before christmas. I used mahogony for the base and sitka spruce for the sides. I finished it with a coat of poly. In the pictures there is only one coat of poly. I hope to make the next buch the same and if you have any tips or ideas please let me know. I cut the miters for the sides using my 45 degrees chamfer bit on my router table with some assistance from the fence.

I made this desk tidy a couple of years ago. I cut the plywood with a coping saw and I made the pencil holders out of 2×2 / 1 1/2×1 1/2 and some 2 1/2 x 2 1/2. So please leave your comments and how could I improve this project

1. OK !!! over the past few days I’ve got comments about the finish !!! so hear it is folks ’’’’yacht varnish ’’’ I know , i know

In this episode I make the first part of my chess board. I go through the veneering and gluing and also the cutting so please leave your coments on the page thanks !!!.

I made this pen a couple of months ago along with several others. I used them for christmas presents for a few people in my family. I made them out of a variety of woods. I dont know what type of wood I made this from , but I think it looks pretty dam good!!!

I made this on the lathe about a year ago as a present for my mother. The clock cost around ten euro. Hope this can give you some ideas of your own.