This is my interpretation of John Nixon's miter and crosscut sled that he posted in the super sled blog. Other than the blade guard, I pretty much followed the process that John outlined in his videos on constructing the sled. The sled body and rear fence were built from 1/2 inch baltic birch plywood and the body is 48 inches wide by 30 inches deep. The front fence and exit blade guard are maple.

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With the addition of the saw to my shop I needed to add on some version of an outfeed table. Paul posted an outfeed table that looked like it would work in my situation. We both used this source as a starting point for the table. With my version I built it as two separate torsion boxes. The top layer of both boxes is mdf with covered with laminate. The torsion boxes were trimmed with cherry and I used 8/4 maple for the legs. The legs are attached to the fold down outfeed table with these brackets.

The fold down portion of the table does have to sit on the shop floor in order to (1) be long enough to support a full sheet of plywood and (2) to clear the dust collector when it is not needed. However, I must add a confession here. In constructing the fold down portion I forgot to take into account the width added by the cherry banding so it is actually 1.5 inches wider than planned but this “mistake” does enable the table to clear the dust collection hose. As I have of said there are no mistakes in woodworking- only opportunities to add more details.

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This is a laundry center that was recently “commissioned” by my wife. Since I put in around 150 hours on the project I suggested that $3000 would be fair compensation for building these cabinets- in order to build something else for her of course! Needless to say I never received a check and , since this is a family oriented site, I will not print her response. :)

Both the base and upper cabinets are constructed with 3/4 cherry plywood and cherry solids. The drawers were constructed from maple solids and Russian birch plywood. The base cabinet top is constructed from maple, cherry and coffee tree. The finish is my customary finish for cherry: BLO, sealed with shellac, and followed with several coats of wipe on poly. These cabinets represent a few personal “firsts”: (1) designing a project and completing the build from the design specs, (2) first use of Blum self closing slides, and (3) first set of raised panel doors.

Thanks for viewing. Amy comments or critiques are, as always, appreciated.

I have not posted a project in awhile so I thought it was about time to put something up.

These bookcases are fairly routine but they do represent the final element in the all-weather room addition that we began in May of this year and completed on October 4th with the installation of the bookcases. When we added the room to the house we took out two exterior doors and my wife informed me that I was going to put some bookcases in their place since she needed more storage.

They are built with oak and oak plywood and have cherry accents. Where possible I try to find a way to include cherry in my projects. The finish is 5 coats of shellac. I decided on this finish due to the influence of Frank and David. I have generally used it as a sealer after staining but have never used it a finish coat before but it is always good to try something new.

By the way 20 minutes after the installation was complete my wife had the bookcases filled with books and “dust collectors” and she “commissioned” me to do another bookcase downstairs.

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These are pictures of the master bedroom remodel that I did about a year ago. I installed 300 square feet of brazillian cherry flooring and added cherry crown molding, trim and wainscoting to compliment the flooring. All told I used 300 board feet of solid cherry in building the rails, stiles, base, 3 piece crown and trim. I also used 10 sheets of cherry plywood in the wainscoting field. Finish was two coats of danish oil followed by 5 coats of wipe on poly. When it was finished I decided to buy cherry cover plates to replace the plastic ones. But, of course, my wife wasn’t satisfied with just replacing the plates in this room so I had to do the entire house to match.

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This is just a simple plant dolly. There are two plant dollies in the photos but I will claim a build on only one of them. My wife bought the other for $6.00 and commented about it being a bargain. To tell the truth I felt rather insulted that she would go out and buy something like this. So I dug out some maple and cherry offcuts that I had been saving and put this together. The finish is danish oil followed by 6 coats of wipe on poly.

To tell the truth, now that I think about it, I believe that she had this planned all along.

Anyway this is just one of those projects where I needed a quick and easy build just to complete something.

This is a project I was asked to do for my oldest grandson. The frame is brazillian teak. This was fabricated from hardwood flooring left over after I laid around 2000 feet of brazillian teak and brazillian cherry in our house. The wooden backing is alder and the letters are made from pine.

I stained the letters with an oil based stain from Minwax and finished them with danish oil, shellac and 3 coats of oil based poly. The alder was finished with water based poly. The frame was sealed with danish oil and had 3 coats of oil based poly added to it.

The second picture shows one of the mysterious shop elves who happen to mysteriously appear in my shop when it is least expected.

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This is a plant stand made from 2×8 construction grade material. It is a bent lamination that is stained a cedar color.

This is a simple centerpiece for which the pattern was listed in Woodsmith vol. 173. The construction is relatively simple. All four sides are beveled. Dadoes are cut in both the legs and the centerpiece base. The centerpiece is cherry and the legs are teak. The project was sanded to 400 grit before applying 3 coats of danish oil followed by 4 coats of poly. After the poly cured it was sanded it to 2000 grit.

The project came about as a birthday gift for my dear wife of 31 years. Her birthday was a week away and I had not gotten her anything. So I was beginning to sweat it. You have to understand that she is a high maintenance woman and if I didn’t have something for her- weeeelllllll it wouldn’t be pretty let me assure you. Then I had an epiphany of shorts when that month’s issue of Woodsmith arrived. This looked like the perfect gift for her and since I had the wood already, the only real expense would be my time (which isn’t worth a lot). So that’s how this project came about and besides I really didn’t want to dive into the monies I had set aside for a band saw to buy her a gift- after all what is more important my wife’s birthday gift or a new band saw. We both got what we wanted.

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