made from old growth doug fir, air dried walnut, hard rock maple top, teak drawer slides, soft maple drawers, and three piece walnut cherry inlays.

It is a rolling work station/recycle center for the kitchen. The top has bread board ends and can be lifted off for easy cleaning. The cabinet was assemble using mortise and tenon, tongue and groove, half lap, and dowel joinery. It consists of 4 legs 3 solid dougles fir book matched floating panels and walnut rails. The top and bottom of the cabinet are of the dust panel style. The drawers are made of soft maple, using box or finger joints. This piece was entered in the MN woodworkers guild Northern Woods Show And recieved “Best First Time In Show” As far as finish goes The main cabinet is finished with a lacquer satin sheen buffed with wax, and the bread board top is finished with Tried and True danish oil. I would love to answer any questions you have, and would enjoy to hear comments!

This Jewel Case is constructed using Black Walnut and White Rock Elm. I designed this case to give room for an abundance of hanging jewelery. There are also two small shelves for watches and hard bracelets. The drawer opens up to reveal trays for rings galore, and the top tray slides off and out of the way to make it easy to find the perfect ring. The entire piece, apart from the back panel is made of hardwoods from MN. It was assembled using finger joints to give it an elegant contrast at the intersections of the light colored elm and the beautiful black walnut. The black walnut in the main door is butterfly cut, and the grain is book-matched to give it a unique handmade feeling. The door stays closed thanks to four very tiny, but strong rare-earth magnets hidden in the door and in the case that attract each another. The door and drawer pulls are handmade from three pieces, the main pull being Teak. This piece can either sit atop a table or be hung on a wall, and would look really great with a mirror hanging above the drawer.

This is a stool I made using air-dried Black Walnut. The stool has three legs so it never rocks on uneven floors. The seat is hand shaped, and is ergonomically designed to let you sit with your bottom, not your thighs. The seat props you up, holds you comfortably in place, while taking the pressure off your back by making you sit with good posture. I designed this stool for my personal use while drawing at a drafting table, it would also work great at a desk for writing or drawing, and it looks great at a bar or counter. The legs are attached using mortise and tenon joinery with a maple wedge forced into the top creating an attractive, and sturdy but very functional stool.

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There are 5 of them. Plus the Ceader Foe Beam scarfed, construction adhesive, and hand nailed.
These are the templates I made from 1/8” hardboard, roughed the blanks out, then I just pattern cut them on the table saw

Column Corner Miters are glued and nailed with Titebond 3

All End Grains top and Bottom are sealed with silicone adhesive caulk.

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Contemporary coffee table. Made from hard maple. This picture was take 4 years after it was built. It has been hauled to Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and in between. Some how thanks to superb craftsmanship it has endured. You have to test the product before you sell it.

My first attempt at steam bending. It was successful.

This one-legged entry table is a recycled project. Before the recession hit I had a good resource for reclaimed lumber. A place I formerly worked at took down old barns and turn-of-the-century log homes, and turned them into new log homes and timber framed houses. This is a creation from some of the “cut-offs” that I snatched up. The leg is what I would call old growth red elm which machines wonderfully and carves well too. The top is a chunk of Douglas Fir which I believe was a cut off from a floor joist when floor joists used to be 3-4 inches thick :).... the design is a culmination of many hours of imagining how i could showcase the old holes in the joist, which instead of cutting them out and tossing them I tried to make them a focal point. My intention was to try and make the saw kerfs “point” to the knot.

this out feed table came out pretty good.. i used baltic birch for the surface panel…. then i contact cemented down p-lam on that. All he support material is 4/4 soft maple except the 8/4 walnut rail that is on the back of the saw. A full length piano hinge runs underneath. And 7/8in. dowels are slid through holes to support the folding part of the extension… All in all the fixed part with the miter slot 12” in width by 48 in.in length same for the flip up. the fixed part of the table can easily hold 160lbs.+. tell me what you think.

most of the stock used in this table is from a cherry craftman style bookcase that i build about ten years ago … after hauling it across the country in all my travels it was in pretty bad shape .. mostly the doors that were once on it and the plywood back were all damaged… the design came to me when my wife demanded that i make here an art table after she seen the bench i made for my self…. so i used the shelvels as the cherry top …. cut it in half , took apart the floating panels, shrunk the width down, glued them together, made a new bottom and used the old panels as the new shelves … designed the new shelve peg half dove tale rail adjustable shelf system and wala .!!!!!!!!! an art table ten years in the making…..the top of the table sits 40” h i hope she likes it she said she wanted it high .. her birthday is soon

my work bench …. the base is all reclaimed doug fir… the timbers were rough milled with my chainsaw so i could get them to go through the planer …. i have just finished well not totally finished but gotten closer to being done recently …. i mounted my vise last week… im pretty happy with it ..