| Project by woodsoldier | posted 217 days ago | 423 views | 2 times favorited | 5 comments |  |
 |
I had a habit of just tossing everything from my pockets after work on the computer desk. Needless to say it was a mess on the desk top. The boss lady of the house told me I was a No Go at this station. So I saw this on about.com. Took a weekend to build, used pine for the internal parts and Poplar for the outside skin. Sorry for the bad photo’s after I put it in on the desk, window behind tossed to much light. I was going to Stain it, but Wife liked the look of the poplar, so I just did a couple coats of Poly. I am happy with how it came out, and it gave me a chance to practice hand cut dovetails. Each project I do, I get better at them. I am working on a night stand now, for the wife again…LOL, we could not find a design she liked, so I drew one up, and making it now. This will be the first project I have designed and built from the ground up.
-- New woodworker, be gentle
5 comments so far
bikeboy
home | projects | blog
6 posts in 299 days
posted 217 days ago
I can see one of those in my very near future. Very nice work thanks for the idea. Hope you dont mind.
a1Jim
home | projects | blog
17022 posts in 475 days
posted 217 days ago
Looks good great design
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com
randal
home | projects | blog
54 posts in 337 days
posted 217 days ago
Nice work! That’s a great idea for storage under a computer monitor. I might have to make one of those myself.
-- Randal, DeKalb, Illinois
jack1
home | projects | blog
382 posts in 925 days
posted 217 days ago
The contrasting woods look nice. BIG dovetails…
-- jack -- measure once, curse twice!
WoodSpanker
home | projects | blog
298 posts in 290 days
posted 188 days ago
Those ARE big dovetails. Nicely done! :)
-- Adventure? Heh! Excitement? Heh! A Woodworker craves not these things!