This winter was a fairly productive one for me because I completed two major projects: a doll wardrobe and (drum roll, please) my new workbench. This workbench has been a long time coming: In 2002, I started planning to build a workbench. I bought some supplies and began working on a base, but I had [...]
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Workbench Project: Done!
Posted in Projects, tagged douglas fir, project, record, vise, Woodworking, workbench on March 28, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Doll Wardrobe Project: Done!
Posted in Projects, tagged american girl doll, doll wardrobe, project, Woodworking on December 27, 2009 | 15 Comments »
It was a lot of work, but I completed the doll wardrobe in the (Saint) nick of time: I finished applying the final coat of clear coat around 11:00pm on December 22. Here’s a summary of my finishing process: Take the doors off the carcase and remove all hardware. Fill all imperfections and nail holes. [...]
Doll Wardrobe Project: Construction Complete
Posted in Projects, tagged american girl doll, doll wardrobe, project, Woodworking on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I finally finished construction on the doll wardrobe project. All the woodworking is complete, so now I just have to prime, paint, and clear coat the whole piece. I am going to paint the interior a cream color and the exterior a sage green. I have a week and a half left before Christmas to [...]
Doll Wardrobe Project: Main Carcass
Posted in Projects, tagged american girl doll, doll wardrobe, project, Woodworking on November 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been busy lately working on the doll wardrobe project. As I discussed in Episode 52, this project is a wardrobe designed to hold the clothes and accessories for my daughter’s American Girl doll. It’s going to be a Christmas present and I’ve still got a lot of work to do. A quick peek at [...]
Nightstand Project: Fitting The Tenons
Posted in Projects, tagged mortise and tenon, nightstand project, project, tenon, Woodworking on May 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I rough cut my tenons with power tools, but I fit them to their mortises exclusively with hand tools. I like the control that hand tools give me during this operation. I started out with a rough cut tenon. I cut this tenon on my table saw using the same technique demonstrated in my previous [...]
Nightstand Project: Rough Cutting The Apron Tenons
Posted in Projects, tagged mortise and tenon, nightstand project, project, tenon, Woodworking on February 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I made a joinery overview post that explained my strategy for the tenons on the top aprons. Each apron has a 1/2” wide by 1” long offset tenon that fits into an open mortise on the top of the leg. Adjacent tenons are mitered together [...]
Dollhouse / Activity Table Project
Posted in Projects, tagged activity table, dollhouse table, project, Woodworking on December 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For Christmas this year, my wife and I decided to buy our two daughters (ages 2 and 5) a dollhouse. This decision immediately presented a problem. Where could we set up the dollhouse such that it would always be ready for use and be accessible from all four sides? The answer was a small dedicated [...]
Revisiting My Very First Furniture Project
Posted in Projects, tagged first furniture project, Gigli, linen cabinet, The Wood Whisperer, Woodworking on December 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The year was 2003. America was enthralled with Trista and Ryan’s fairy tale romance on “The Bachelorette,” the air hung heavy with disappointment as theatre-goers paid $10 per ticket for “Matrix Reloaded,” the nation yielded to a type of temporary insanity called “Clay Aiken Fever,” the Terminator was elected to public office, and my wife [...]
Nightstand Project: Cutting the Mortises, Part 2
Posted in Projects, tagged cutting, dado, joinery, mortise, mortising jig, nightstand project, project, router jig, Woodworking on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I used my router jig to cut the lower mortises on all of the legs. This operation doesn’t require anything fancy; I used a 1/2″ straight bit and a 5/8″ bushing on my plunge router. It’s important that you center your bit in the bushing, or you will introduce error into your cuts. I center [...]
Nightstand Project: Cutting the Mortises, Part 1
Posted in Projects, tagged cutting, dado, joinery, mortise, nightstand project, project, Woodworking on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I broke the process of cutting the mortises and dados for the nightstand carcasses into three steps: Cut the top open-ended mortises on the legs using the router table. Cut the dados for the side and bottom panels on the legs, rails, and stretchers using the router table. Cut the remaining mortises on the legs [...]
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