Butterfly Inlaid Changing Table & Dresser in Cherry and Maple

Very nice work! A quality piece indeed.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

I love the contrasting woods. Very nice!!

-- Roger - Havertown, Pennsylvania

Amazing! Beautiful job on the inlay butterfly!

-- Scott, Austin-Texas...

Patrick – sketchup—- you don’t need that! Your plans and your follow through are great. I really like the contrast of woods and the inlay is amazing. I think I see a whole lot of Daddy-made things in the future of your first born.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

Great Job Patrick. A beautiful changing table. How thick is the inlay wood?

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Beautiful piece Patrick. An heirloom. Thanks for letting us get a look at it.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Patrick your work is excellent. I like the design, as well as the contrasting materials.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Stunning! Beautiful design and craftsmanship. I don’t know what else to say. It will be under the diapers of many generations of babies. Just gorgeous.

-- Dust collectors suck.

That is a beautiful piece of furniture. The combination of maple and cherry is always awesome.I love your drawings as well…I started drafting in the board and t-square era, and you have a great style! I love a great hand drawn set of plans.

-- Women love me.....trees fear me

Thanks for the feedback, folks! It’s very much appreciated.

Karson – the inlay is roughly 1/8” thick. Watching David Marks gave me the courage…just wish they were still making shows.

The only issue we’ve had with the dresser so far is I seriously miscalculated the volume of clothes a little girl needs storage for! It’s routinely stuffed to the gills to the point where the drawers won’t close. The one I built for my son is much larger, and naturally relatively empty. Figures.

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL www.TenonAndSpline.com

Oh…and Brad/David, yeah I used to do a lot of drafting when I was designing theatrical sets. Never quite good enough for any real architecture, but it served me well for scenery. My drafting courses in HS and college were some of my favs. Nowadays I’m almost strictly SketchUp. After years of searching for a CAD, this is the first app that I really can use. Drafting tools are getting rather dusty now! Looking at your projects I can see you spend your design time these days with CAD/SketchUp as well.

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL www.TenonAndSpline.com

Very nice piece as is the crib. Bring us more.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

I’m impressed. Welcome.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Really impressive, Patrick!

I checked out your photo gallery, and I’m curious as to what method you used to rout out the top of the table to the exact dimension of your inlay pieces?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Wow, this is really beautiful! I love the contrast and the details!

-- What exactly is "The Move" and who are you calling a "Quirky Jerk"? -- http://www.north40custom.com

Charlie-
I basically followed a method I saw David Marks use on Woodworks. For this piece I first cut the individual pieces of inlay wood, then I taped them down and traced around them a few times with a sharp X-acto knife on the cherry top. Then I routed by hand with an 1/8” bit. The score lines did a great job helping me guide the router precisely.

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL www.TenonAndSpline.com

Wow.. I’ll have to try that on some scrap. Don’t know if my hands are that steady. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Your woodworking talent is fabulous!

I really admire your drafting skills, I am not that good.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Some of you folks have been paying attention to Odie.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Really nice job on this Patrick! Welcome to Lumberjocks.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

This is beautiful, Patrick!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

just stunning. Very well designed and built, and the contrasting and inlays are just wonderful. I’m a fan now.

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flinthill's Artisan

Beatiful in style and fuction as well.In HS shop our teacher told us to never mix woods in furniture because it seldom compliments the design.Well, this is one of those exceptions.Very well done!

-- " Stubborn tenacity substitutes for natural ability" ANDY

Man that’s nice. Excellent craftsmanship, too.

-- Maplewood, MN