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Ron’s Kid’s Table and Chairs Set Last year my daughter asked for a table and chair set for my grandson. We went shopping and found some, but they were expensive and did not appear well built. So I decided to build one. I used pocket hole joinery to construct the table and chairs. The ta...
...lt part is using the eyes to create symmetry. If the left side doesn’t mimic the right, it throws you into vertigo.” “I finished the chairs with 5 coats of General Arm-R-Seal with a #00000 steel wool brush up in between and to finish, a light once-over with J.E. Moser’s paste...
This amazing dining table and chair set comes from Fred Walters of Iowa City, IA. I just love the “masculine” elegance of Stickley-influenced design. The story does have a cool twist to it. The wood for the chairs is door casing from a south east Iowa farmhouse. A friend of mine ha...
... of the other projects I have done. The corner display and floor standing clock have been around for about a year and nicely complement the table and chairs. Thanks, Marc. And keep on whisperin”. ...
This topic was inspired by a question from viewer Tony. He writes: “I am just starting out, as a recreational woodworker, are there any key projects / techniques that you would advise I master as a way of growing my skill set. I am planning to build my own cabinetmaker’s bench later th...
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...
Johnny submitted a couple of great projects made from recycled timber! I envy folks who live in areas that have the option to recycle. Its environmentally friendly, its cheap, and the wood itself brings a sense of age and maturity that can’t be achieved with stain or dye. And for anyone wh...
This Viewer Project comes to us from Russ. He writes: I wanted to submit something for your Viewer Project portion of the blog. It’s a trunk that I made for a former player of mine that is getting married on Friday. She’s a great kid and did absolutely everything I asked of her the t...
Ray has a couple of questions about water-based dyes and pinned tenons: I am building maple morris chairs and I am thinking of using water based dyes from General Finishes. I would like to do the leg outside edges in say a burgundy or ebony and the rest of the chair in light or medium brown. My que...
me. Bingo, I had a shape! I own a copy of David Marks’ DVD on curvilinear design, and I had done some bent-wood lamination development on other projects. So I knew that I would use that technique on the outer rim of the top. The top rim is made from 17 strips of Alder wrapped around a plywo...
Continuing our viewer project collection series, we have some beautiful boxes for you to check out today. Here’s are a few projects submitted by Anthony: I would love it if you could show a few of my recently made boxes. I am quite proud of them and I would like to see what some real woodwo...