I haven’t posted a project in a wile and thought that I would. Here is a vanity from the bathroom that I just finished. I made the doors with cope & stick joinery using a dado blade. The false front and drawer fronts are solid poplar, case is birch ply.

I just realized that the holidays are going on right now! It always creeps up on me. I decided spend a few hours in the shop making some gifts today. I finally made the end grain cutting boards from The Wood Whisperer’s plans. They are awesome. It actually was a great way for me to spend the day. It was actually really easy and a great way to exercise some woodworking skills.

Here are a couple of window planters I made from birch plywood with poplar trim. The fronts are copper flashing held in place with the trim pieces. I thought it would look great as it weathered. Paint is just exterior house paint. I also drilled 1” holes in each box for drainage.

Here is another project where I did an update to an existing built-in.
Basically, they had open shelving in the knee wall in their attic room. When the customer got married his new wife wanted a way to ‘cover up the shelves’ and have hidden storage. I suggested adding doors and drawers to the area and this is what we came up with…

Here is a built-in wall of cabinets that the lady absolutely hated. She asked me if I could make them look better or rebuild them. I made sets of doors on the router table, added pieces to the face frames with pocket screws and wired in puck lights on a switch. The desk area is just 2 sheets birch plywood with 1/16” edgebanding with contact cement. The homeowner agreed to paint all of it to reduce costs.
This proved to be much easier and more reasonable than a new wall of cabinets.

Over the past couple of years I have done this project several times. I think it is always a great way to fill the space on the side of the mantle.
Sometimes I make the shelves adjustable, some are fixed w/ dado in the back, biscuits in the side, usually with 1 1/2” face frames.
Always with a 6” kick to run the baseboard around.

Here is a table that i made for the client’s children to do homework on. Legs & stretchers are glued poplar (1 1/2”), top is 2 sheets laminated birch with poplar trim. Joinery is biscuits and pocket holes. The finish is shellac covered with a glaze made from BLO and artist’s oils, topcoat is rubbed polyurethane for durability. I designed it as i went and think it came out pretty well.

Here is an extension of our kitchen that I built a couple years back. Birch plywood, oak, pine, and maple frame and panel doors. Normally none of these woods would go together but I glazed them over gel stain with artist oils until the finish looked uniform. Protective coat is rubbed polyurethane. The top is oak butcher block.

I play bass on some sessions in Nashville from time to time. The guy who runs House of David Studios asked me if I thought there was a way to make some glass doors where the pocket doors were. A lot of the studios on Nashville’s Music Row are in old houses dating around 1900.
Anyway, I took the old pocket doors off and reused the hardware for the doors that I built from 2×6 & 2×10 southern yellow pine. The glass is patio door stock panes from the local glass store. All trim milled on the router table from white wood to match the original trim in the studio. (had been sandblasted 30 years ago).
Now the drummer can see all of the other musicians!

Here is a wall of shelving I built for a customer about a year ago. The bookcases are dadoed on three sides and screwed & glued from behind. I installed both cases, then built the window cabinet in place. I joined the face frames w/ biscuits. The second picture is for the same client to hold their LP’s.