After seeing this on The Wood Whisperer I thought that it would be a simple enough project that even I could do it. It is made out of some cedar I had and wood from a salvaged pallet.

This was one of those projects that was built just to see if I could do it.

The box is made out of pine since when I made the box I hadn’t had used a bandsaw very much, and I didn’t want to ruin any of my hardwoods. The pulls are actually out of cottonwood and was a pain in the rear end to work with even at that small of amount.

As the only science teacher in my school I don’t have a lot of time to do any woodworking, or much of anything else for that matter while school is in session (it also doesn’t help my wife is 8 months pregnant). So while I’ve been trying to stay current here at lumberjocks I haven’t made very many posts.

On another thread I mentioned I used students offcuts for projects. I decided I better post something made from those offcuts. The kids will literally get rid of a quarter panel of high quality 3/4 ply just because they aren’t using any more in their project. I also use their Cedar, Oak, and occasional walnut for projects.

My wife and daughter went out of town for a week to help her sister with her baby. After I got everything else done that had to be done I realized I had some time to do some woodworking. My dad had built some of these stools for my nephews years ago, and so I decided I’d make one for my little girl. Its made out of both pine and oak ply. But since my plan was to paint it anyway I figured it wouldn’t matter.

My uncle is remodeling a rental house. He asked my dad if he would build him a cabinet for the bathroom to replace what was there. My dad didn’t feel like it was something he had the energy to do (unfortunately he is going older and has some health problems), so my mom suggested my uncle call me. I had time on my hands (school was out for the summer, and my summer job was only part time), so I said okay.

The Cabinet is 36 inches wide, 44 inches tall, and 10 inches deep. He wanted all the doors to be left hand so they could be accessed from the sink. Since he is going to paint it, and wanted to keep cost down, I made it completely out of plywood, and used veneer tape on the edges.

As Karson said on Freds post, just a few days left, so I figured I better get mine entered. This is going to be used as a bedside table, so I made it a little taller than the original and added a drawer. since it has to fit in with furniture already in the room I changed the look a little and used pine and cedar.

My mortise and tennon skills are somewhat lacking, so I put the table together using pocket hole screws. The cedar came from my dad’s stash, that I mentioned in a blog. It is finished with boiled linseed oil and then covered with wipe on poly.

While I don’t expect to win, I did have a lot of fun working on it. It didn’t take a whole lot of actual work time to do. I just had to find the time to work on it.

When I was a kid I was rummaging through the storage room looking for something and found a table top. It was in bad condition, the top was scarred and underneath it still had part of the old aprons attached. Knowing just enough about woodworking to get me into trouble, I took it upon myself to try and fix it. My dad saw my results, which were terrible as the table was very wooblely, and just about killed me. I didn’t know it was his grandpa that made the table, and it was one of the only things my dad had of his. Well I didn’t do anything to the top (Thankfully) I just added a base. Quicker than you can say trouble I took the base off and put the top back where I found it.

Well, this past year I saw the tabletop again, and ask my mom about it. She said that my dad was a little afraid to do anything to it. My skills have improved a little since my first attempt so I tried it again and this is the end result. I would have to say its leaps and bounds better than the first attept.

The top is Cedar that came from the family property, which we no longer have unfortunately, the aprons are pine and the legs douglas fir, which were the materials that were used on the table when it was first built

Sorry the pictures aren’t that great

When I saw the plans for this in Popular Woodworking a few years back I knew I had to make one.

I took some old pallets from work cleaned them up and used them for this. I know the unspalted stuff is pine but I don’t know what the spalted stuff is.

It was a project just to have a project, so there weren’t any plans for it. I eventually ended up giving to my nephew for christmas. My wife told him that he didn’t want it to let her know, because she would take it. Maybe next time I’ld better ask her before giving things away (even if it was her idea to give it away).

In August, just 1 week before I had to start teaching again, after having a 2 and 1/2 month break my wife asked me to build her a dresser for Christmas. She wanted it to match the other furniture in the bedroom. It is made out of knotty pine, and the edge treatments match another dresser. The Inlay came from leftover material when I built her headboard.