Well, I guess this really is not complete but I had to get these pics out of the camera b 4 I could take more of the completed project. This is a project I s’pose you could say I started in 1973! I made a walnut and oak cutting board for my mother for Christmas that year, in high school woodshop. Since then, it had warped a bit and had a 3/16 layer of pizza grease and beer on it. So, I scraped it down, cut it into 3 pieces and surfaced it smooth and square via jointer and thickness planer. Then, after I glued it back together, my buddy Dan Pleska came to the rescue once again with his wide sander. I took a “Stanley” L bracket and cut it in half, mortised it into the edges of the router plate recess to keep the plunger things from tearing out the wood as i remove it. It has 4 coats of poly on top, 3 on the sides and 2 on the bottom. I bought Norm’s router table plan just to make the fence for it and adapted it to bolt to my TS fence. And, since I had the plan I figured I might as well build the base cab too. I’ll post it as a seperate project.

I built this table for a friend whose ex sent her a couple of pieces of Zebra a while back and she asked me to build her a table with it. There was not enough Zebra to make a table out of so, I added some walnut I had left over from my coffee table and came up with this. My buddy Dan Pleska helped me sand the top flat, last August, with his drum sander. Shows you how long it takes me to finish a project, what with winter and life interfering. The “secret drawer” is a late add-on that she requested after her mom passed away in November. I made the curved section from a piece of cherry firewood using a technique I picked up watching David Marks. It really “works.” Get it? WoodWorks? LOL – I better leave the jokes to others and “stick” with wood. (I got a million of em). The table is mostly assembled with pockethole screws. I love new toys! PS: I have a really cool story from this past weekend trip to Woodcraft. I’ll try to blog it.

I started this project a year ago and just finished it (almost). You might notice the window is installed incorrectly in the first pic. Well, I still need to finish off three walls inside and add a door latch, but its nearly done. Its tough to complete projects just working on weekends, evenings, holidays, and vacations. Further along than my other three projects. Someday. Anyways, enjoy.

This was my favorite project at the time. Aren’t they all?!! I found the prototype in a subscription to a set of books by the Handyman Club of America, circa 1998. One change I made was to arch the top stretchers. I made mine in

Two cases built, with love, for Lily (7) and Rosie (11) for Christmas 2007. Finished with environmentally friendly water-based polyurethane, these units are safe for children. I used walnut for the sides and lids, maple drawers with cherry faces, and oak plywood trimmed with cherry for the shelves. This minimizes movement (hopefully) and allowed me to use sliding dovetail joints between the sides and shelves. The lids display an inlayed flower for which the girls are named. This project took all my spare time between July and December. I purchased the drawings from the New Yankee Workshop. Thanks, Norm!