Nothing Severed Yet: My Projects

Portable humidor in walnut and cocobolo (Plans!)

It's done! Eleven pages of careful detail explaining how YOU can make a portable humidor just like the one pictured below. The 4 megabyte PDF file has detailed instructions, including diagrams and photos. It's a straightforward project and the results are fantastic.

Poker chip box plans, free from Rockler

The good folks at Rockler have made plans for a walnut poker chip box available online, free. They'll show you how to make the thing, and even have links to where you can order all the parts online. It's pretty slick because it uses a piece of walnut molding, so you get a cool, difficult-looking profile without a lot of work.

Halloween special: what do you do with your old chisels?

My friends know that I'm apolitical, and I hate to argue with people about issues like this. So if you're a supporter of the current administration, please regard this as an homage to our president. If not, please regard this as the scariest jack-o-lantern I could come up with.

'On building humidors (part III)

As our brighter readers will have already gleaned, the whole purpose of a humidor is to be humid. And as any reader paying even the slightest bit of attention will now realize, humidity and wood are a trecherous combination.

On building humidors (part II)

My humidor is finished, but it's taking a while to get all the information up--unfortunately, the computer with all my blueprints on it went to that big server farm in the sky. Until my new hard drive arrives, I don't have the dimensions or blueprints. That's OK--today's post is going to focus on humidor design.

Butcher blocks redux

An astute reader noticed that I never followed up on my butcher block project. Here, then, is my final analysis on the matter.

You got your slate in my coffee table, Part IV

And finally, the best part of all... the pictures of the final product.

You got your slate in my coffee table, Part III

When we last left our intrepid hero, he had a lovely tabletop sanded to 60 grit with three square 12"x12" indentations. Time to get our hero some legs, then finish the damn thing.

You got your slate in my coffee table, Part II

So you saw my ugly blueprints in Part I--how do you make a table from it? Here's how I went about doing it.

You got your slate in my coffee table, Part I

Here it is... the plans from my first major furniture project, our living room coffee table.

A good use for a bad bandsaw

A bandsaw would be a pretty decent way to trim a spline, no? Sure enough, I ran the only-slightly-bloodied edge of that old picture frame along the junky bandsaw blade, and it was a match made in heaven. The darn thing sheared off perfectly.

Splines

I've been thinking about splines lately. Not the curve, but the slice o'contrasting beauty you stick in the corner of something to strengthen it.

Step Tansu chests

Considering one of these for a forthcoming project--here are some pics I'm looking at for inspiration.

Butcher blocks can kill

Oak is basically a big wooden sponge, and as such not exactly suitable for a sterile chopping block.

A 2-hour heirloom

One of the good things about being a woodworker is that you can whip out great gifts with very little work. This afternoon my neighbor gave me a great suggestion right up this alley. Blocks!