this idea started about 2 months ago and you can see the beginning of it in this blog. After spending lots of time in thought and going through one trial of trying to make the fence work, I came across Rockler’s sure-loc miter guage. I was a little skeptical of it (or anything) working because of how far the slider is away from the blade. Well, all I gotta say is, wow. This thing is really cool. I’m am amazed at how well this works and am extremely happy with Rocker’s guage. I did have to add one of thier miter slot hardware to lock the fence in sturdy. Without it, I simply had too much flex which caused and un-square cut.

It took about an hour or two to get all the bugs worked out. Now, I have no problem crosscutting long sheet goods. I have safely cut a 24” X 96” panel up for cabinet parts with no problems. As you can see, If I need to use the saw for ripping materials, I can turn the fence out of the way, or simply take it off.

My next step, is to rout a slot in the fence for the miter slot hardware, so when I need to cut an angle, the “locker” will slide in the slot as the fence turns, and then I can “lock” it in.

Thoughts welcome

I started piecing this together a couple of months ago. Had made the block out of beech and had it lying around the shop trying to figure out what I wanted to do with it. Then I acquired some Jatoba and came up with this. It took about 3 weeks to put together only because I had no idea what I wanted it to look like. Made no plans, just went with it.

I made this for my step-son and being my first humidor or fist box of any type for that matter, I’m pretty well pleased with it. I had some challenges with the finish on the cocobolo (1st time working with that!) and wanted a more glossy look, but I wanted to use what I had in the shop and I had to settle for satin. (my high gloss had stain mixed in with it). After completion was almost there, I realized why nobody uses spanish cedar all the way through. The wood is very soft and I know it will end up looking 30 years old in probably less than a year. I definately need to invest in a band saw so I can resaw the cedar and make boxes lined with it.

Any suggestions or comments welcome.

Thanks, Eric

While my brother was in the fire acadamy, the class wanted to give a gift that would display all the “patches” the acadamy has collected over the years from different fire stations throughout the country. So, he called on me do build a “shadow box” which I was extremely exited to do. I wanted this piece to be my first piece with no screws, all wood joinery….I almost succeeded, as I used finger joints on the box frame and the faceframe is a mixture of Mahogany and walnut which I tongue and grooved and biscuit joined and glued to the box. The box was built out of 8/4 African Mahogany and the only screws I used was on the back. I used biscuits and pocket screws to join the mdf back, and then covered some soundboard with blue felt and glued it to the mdf back. The glass doors are 1/4” thick on slide on a KV aluminum track. This whole box is 12 ft long and 4 ft high.

I finished it with 4 coats of oil base satin poly. I really wanted to make a penetrating oil finish but I have never done that before and ran out of time before I had to install. All in all I was very pleased with everything and all the students and firemen there couldn’t be happier, which is the real satisfaction for me.

This is a wet bar I did for a customer that gutted one of his bathrooms in a remodel. The drain and water lines were already there! Probably one of the most difficult cabinet jobs I’ve done. Just because of all the 45 degree angles. All in all it turned out to be my best work to date. Two drawers and three pull outs all on soft close glides. I also used bluhm hinges designed for pull outs on the two cabs, they prop the door out of the way so you don’t have to use cleats on the cabinets and you get a full width drawer box…really cool. All boxes are black melamine with quarter sawn White oak. Wall cabinets are “display” boxes with dimming puck lights inside and underneath. As you can see, I still have to make a door for the fridge…He was originally going to get one with a glass door.

Here you see three different mahogany boards.
1st is 10×14x1&3/8 — it’s small but the grain design is one of my favorites. I’m not sure how both the ends ended up looking like this, I wasn’t trying to do this.

2nd is 12×18x1&5/8 — it’s my most recent mahogany one. I’m really bummed on the oil mark. I applied the oil and the next day, this is what I got. I have been putting coat after coat trying to get rid of this, hopefully it will mix in

3rd is 13×19x2&1/2 —I made this one for my chef friend. He actually gave me the wood for it and much more!

I built this for a friends girlfriends parents…try to remember that one!

They gave me a pic and I gave them what they wanted. The cabinet and drawer boxes are black melamine, Showing knotty adler all the way up to the ceiling. One thing I messed up on was the door casing. During the remodel, the casing was removed, and it didn’t even register in my mind. Since the cabinet is without a faceframe, I built it to fit perfect, about 1/4” of room on both sides. AFTER, installation, my friend (the general on the project) said oh oh! Luckily we came up with a good solution that nobody noticed, even the homeowner, until I pointed it out (what can I say, I’m a perfectionist). I trimmed the drawer front about 1/4” to give aprox 1/2” clearance from the wall, and we decided to use flat casing (very contemporary look) which we planed down so the drawer would clear :)

just some more cutting boards I’ve made that I wanted to share with everybody

Enjoy

The fisrt one is solid maple
the second is maple with mahogany boarder
and the third is quarter sawn white oak. I made this for a customer with leftover stock from his custom wet bar (project to be uploaded soon)

New here. This is my first post. These are some cutting boards that I’ve done recently. Like “Closetguy”, I fell into making these boards this past year. It started last christmas as presents. I loved building them so much, that when work slowed down and/or stopped, I just started to build end grain cutting boards. hope you like them.