Woodworking

This page has some pictures of my woodworking projects.

Here's the latest project, completed in October of 2007. It's a set of three legged tables I designed.

I brushed off some geometry to get the aprons (the curved vertical members under the top) to meet the legs
at 90 degrees to simplify the joinery.

The cat joined me for one photo.

Here are the bookmatched tops. The grain give a cathedral arch to the top.

This one has a bit of sapwood in the center. I kind of like it.

Here is a detail of the pegged tenon. I used cherry for the tops and the apron and jatoba for the legs.
The pegs are wenge.

The bottom of the curved leg.

This is a pair of solid cherry nightstands I built for our bedroom. I copied the

design from an article in Fine Woodworking. The front is bowed. The drawers and

the panel door are curved to match. The door panel is first book-matched,

meaning that a single board is cut in half and opened like a book to get symmetric

grain patterns around the center cut. The two halves were then cut into smaller

angled pieces and glued together in a curve, similar to staves in a barrel (coopered).

I was lucky in buying the cherry. The supplier had one big 8/4

board of curly cherry (at no extra price) that became the tops, sides,

and door panel.

Here you can see the curl on the panel and the nice ray patterns on the leg

(on the right) which showed when quarter sawn.

Here's a detail of the panel.

These are the handcut dovetails with the pulls made of a dark

wood called wenge.

Next: Coat racks made of lacewood and jatoba, then a proper

furniture building workbench?