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This week we have a real treat for you. Two of our viewers, Brian and Jorge both built Chippendale Side Tables that were modeled after David Marks’ design from Woodworks. Both projects turned out great! Let’s hear from Brian first. “I have been a hobbyist woodworker for the las...
This week’s project comes from Allen in OH who writes: Since you recently featured a project from some younger students, I thought I’d send some pictures of a project just finished by an “old fogey” student. I’m working towards a degree in craftsmanship at the Univers...
This Viewer Project was sent in by Jim. He writes: This is my most ambitious furniture project to date and one I am verrry happy to be finished with. Needless to say, my wife is happy also. She wanted two new end tables to replace the nice, but 30 year old ones we had in our living room. I began...
7;t think you can go wrong with any of the above finishes. Good luck! And here is Mathew’s finished project: I finished the project a couple of weeks ago for my cousin’s wedding gift. It is a chest made of maple and cherry. When it came down to the finish, I used a mix of 50/50 bullse...
cluding this one). AND – this was my first “real” finishing project and so I bought Marc’s Simple Varnish Finish DVD to learn the technique. It was very helpful and, well, the results came out great. Thank you. I did have trouble with the oil/varnish/slurry technique for ...
This project was sent to us by Jim. Let’s check it out: Hi Marc here is some pictures of my holiday projects. I’ve made 2 long couch tables this year they are made out of sepal (African Mahogany) and a solid hard maple top. The top is supported by 2 stretchers that have sliding dovetai...
In an effort to relieve our backlog of viewer submissions, this is a grouping of several projects from multiple woodworkers. We will do a few of these over the next few weeks so there will be plenty of eye candy! Cypress Planter by Dennis This is a cypress planter I made for my mom. The panel a...
This Viewer Project come from Ken in Ottawa. Let’s check it out: I am sending you some photos of one of my latest projects for the project of the week. It is inspired by your End Table project but with a twist. First a little background. The wood working club I belong to. The Ottawa Woodw...
Let’s check out Jonathan’s unique design and unconventional use of joinery: So a couple of months back I emailed you asking ‘how the h*** do you finish wenge?’ You responded with a brilliant answer which I followed some of, and sorta “adapted” the rest. Here is...
Spring is here and before you know it, we’ll be fighting the heat of Summer. So now is the perfect time to get inspired and start thinking about projects you can make to enhance your enjoyment of the great outdoors! All week long we’ll be posting Viewer Projects with an outdoor theme, ...
This Viewer Project comes from Stan. Its a curvy design with some incredible figure! Here is the latest project that I finished. It is a coffee table for a corner sectional couch. The table was the result of watching David Marks’ video on curvilinear methods. The design for the table ca...
I made these tables for our bedroom. They sit on either side of our bed. The construction is mortise and tenon. I used a cordless drill and chisel to make the mortise and a router table to make the tenons. Then I used a hand saw to cut the shoulders. I cut a small dado in the sides to accept the li...