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Category Archives: Recycled Wood Furniture
I Love the Challenge!
In almost every aspect of my life, it’s all about the challenge and figuring out how to overcome it. Makes no difference, it can be a woodworking project, ultra-marathon mountain race, personal goal or whatever — rising to the challenge … Continue reading
Posted in custom furniture, Design Process, Finger Joint Box, Recycled Wood Furniture, SawStop Sliding Table
Tagged Chickering Piano, custom box, custom made wooden boxes, Design Process, ebony, Gorilla glue, Old Brown Glue, Osmo Polyx, panel clamps, piano hinge, recycled piano, SawStop sliding table, WoodworksbyJohn
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Chickering & Sons Piano Box
Quite some time ago, a friend contacted me and asked whether or not I’d be interested in a piano that had been in their family for a long time but was now relegated to the garage. I had visions of … Continue reading
Posted in Hand Cut Dovetails, Hand Planes, Hand Tool Woodworking, Mesa Arts Center Store, Recycled Wood Furniture
Tagged Chestnut, Chickering Piano, custom box, custom made wooden boxes, dovetails, handcrafted wooden boxes, Mesa Arts Center, Stanley 140 trick, Veritas skewed rabbet plane, Veritas small plow plane
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Off the Fence — Details, Details, Details !!
At the risk of sounding like a whiner I’d like to get this on the page. It seems to be a natural instinct for people to think that a small size project is much easier and quicker to make than … Continue reading
Off the Fence — A New Box Series
Some of you may recall my post dealing with the Cigar Presentation tray that was recently completed and delivered. The construction of that featured finger joints cut on the tablesaw. One thing I’ve learned while making boxes for the Etsy store is that … Continue reading
Nick’s Media Stand Delivered
Yesterday a friend helped me to deliver this unit to the client — good deal for the delivery charges; a cup of Starbucks and a treat! This is a picture of it in the house and, as you can see … Continue reading
Nick’s Media Center Coming to Completion
The past couple of days have been productive on this project. Before my neighbor helped put it up on my workbench I had cut and sized the pieces of reclaimed fence boards used on the top and for the banding … Continue reading
Woodworks by John 