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[...] through my head. “That carpenter guy…” She didn’t intend to be condescending, I’m sure. But nonetheless, I left her house muttering, [...]

[...] a meat-smoking fanatic, so he jumped on the chance to get 40 pounds of premium cherry sawdust. desk top after sanding Last steps of the project are finishing. I called a woodworker I really admire ( [...]

[...] Panels Glued up Side Panels out of clamps While the glue cures, it is time to go back to the desk top… I sanded away all of the water splotches from my 2 year old, working my way through the [...]

[...] sketch looks like an explosion of pink on brown. Very jarring. But you’ve already seen the desk top, so you have a better sense of what that will actually look like. The client wanted a desk in [...]

Well, the desk is finished. Delivered last week, photographed (thanks, Christy!), shop purged and cleaned. Definitely bitter-sweet, as I am now done w [...]

My wife will *surely* disagree with me on this, but I make mistakes. And in this, Part 2 of our desk build, I will reveal some of them. One of my ment [...]

My current commission is a large executive desk made of black walnut and honey mesquite. The only guidance given by the client were rough dimensions. [...]

Well, the desk is finished. Delivered last week, photographed (thanks, Christy!), shop purged and cleaned. Definitely bitter-sweet, as I am now done w [...]

[...] 40:45 mark: Click here to view the embedded video. For the ecologically conscious among us, Ancient Kauri is LEED certified as a reclaimed wood. Similarly, the ebony pulls were harvested from the only [...]

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[...] . I will clean up and repair each of these and then use pocket hole screws for the remaining drawer dividers. Not what I wanted, but stuff happens. blowout! Repair All the panels are made now, so it&# [...]

[...] #8216;blow-out’ on the dovetail that required repair. This forced me to re-think my drawer dividers, and use pocket hole screws on the lower dividers in order to avoid the risk of more damage. [...]

[...] the dovetail that required repair. This forced me to re-think my drawer dividers, and use pocket hole screws on the lower dividers in order to avoid the risk of more damage. Here’s a close-up of [...]

[...] very top of each pedestal, I stopped. I will clean up and repair each of these and then use pocket hole screws for the remaining drawer dividers. Not what I wanted, but stuff happens. blowout! Repair [...]

[...] I just finished a fun project and thought I’d give a brief narrative of the construction process. The client wanted a new desk-top that would sit atop an iron base (client provided the [...]

[...] I just finished a fun project and thought I’d give a brief narrative of the construction process. The client wanted a new desk-top that would sit atop an iron base (client provided the [...]

[...] . Raised panels are covered with blue painter’s tape to protect them during the construction process. This is a complicated, frantic glue-up, where lots of pieces have to go together at once. [...]

[...] panels and circumnavigating the rest of the desk. Ok, so let’s make us some panels: Mesquite panels after sanding off black epoxy Solid walnut stiles and rails cut to size for back panels [...]