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About a month ago I began a thread about designing and building two carver chairs to accompany the 6 bentwood chairs we have owned for the past 40 years. The chairs were purchased all those years ago along with a table, which is around 200 years old. We need a larger table, and time has come to...

The design of the chair needs to compliment the bentwood chairs we have, which are original and early 1900s. The table is to be replaced with a longer, wider one. This table is over 200 years old, and has great sentimental value. It is built of Yellow Wood (top) and Stinkwood (legs). We...

Marc Spagnuolo (The Wood Whisperer) posted this idea in a recent video. I thought it great .... Japanese tool box as a wine box. Here is one I built ... Regards from Perth Derek

For many years I have used a Drill Doctor to sharpen drill bits, always feeling a little guilty as I have prided myself in sharpening just about anything freehand. This is excusable for very small bits, but 1/8" and up should be doable by hand ... well, I have seen these demonstrated for some...

I am building two night stands. These are essentially Tasmanian Oak boxes on Jarrah stands, sort of Krevnovian in concept. Each will have a single, rectangular drawer, curved at the front, and with a small, window-like drawer at the side rear. I am not doing a build this time, but will show...

Sam Blasco was my original inspiration for a parallel guide. Here is a video of Sam using his … @MikeK made a great one using an Incra LS25 positioner ... Then, two years into Covid and many tools are not available, I decided to use what I had and build my own. An Incra Positioner was...

After completing furniture building deadlines, I enjoy taking some time to clean the workshop, clean the machines, and build a tool or two. I have recently completed two bedside tables for my son and daughter-in-law, sent them a new base for a chest of drawers (which had been damaged in move...

I completed this a month ago, but do not recall posting the pictures here, so .... It started with a King size Mission-style bed I built 25 years ago ... Lynndy had two complaints: firstly, she is an extremely light sleeper and would wake if I so much as twitched or rolled over. I had...

A while back I decided to dip my toes in the MFT water, and built a table and rail hinge. The hinge was made from cutting boards, which likely sounds suspect, but worked very well ... However, my OCD got the better of me, and I decided to build one in aluminium, inspired by both Benchdogs and...

Part I: Morticing made easy Recently I built two beds, which I have just got back to. Having completed them, I discovered that they were 40mm too long and too wide! Duh ... after many measurement checks! Obviously this meant pulling them apart and shortening the lengths and widths. The...

When my son Jamie was 10 years old, I build him a chest of drawers, somewhat Shaker-esque. This was an all-hand tools build, made easier as the wood used was Pine, with just Jarrah trim. Jamie is now 29, married, and lives on the other side of Oz. He still has the chest of drawers, which is...

While I have a Roubo-style workbench and prefer hand tools ... ... and have a Hammer K3 slider to take care of rip- and crosscutting ... ... it has dawned on me that that a MFT (multifunction table) would provide more than just another option for sawing - it could provide an ideal small...

I recently returned from a couple of weeks in Alice Springs and Uluru (the Aboriginal name for Ayer's Rock). This is at the very heart of Australia, both geographically and spiritually. This is Uluru ... There does not appear to be much around ... But it is filled with gorges...

I thought that I would post some pictures of a recent project, which may help those looking to choose the type of tools one needs for hand cut joinery, especially dovetailing. The backstory here is that I have been re-organising my workshop, with a view to retiring from my practice in a couple...

Drawer #5: french fitted sliding bevels (Shinwa, Stanley and Chris Vesper) ... Drawer #6: This one is about the tools ... just because I think that they are beautiful, and I love using them. They give me joy. All the tools in this cabinet have a story, or a connection. This is one of the...

Moving across to top right. This is a drawer for wheel cutting gauges ... I went through many ideas before coming up with this design. Simple, but effective for access and keeping the gauges from moving around. Two Tite Marks with fine adjusters and two Veritas gauges (these were a steal...

Here is the second drawer to be filled ... Why "Skeleton Drawer"? Well, it does not contain dark secrets, buried bodies, or other clandestine material :D It is just the name I have given to the drawer design since, unlike Drawer #1, which hid a jewellery layer, this discloses all from...

The underbench cabinet is done .... ... and now the drawers are being filled, starting with the centre drawer in the top row. There are 10 drawers in all, and the aim is to use the space as efficiently as possible. Into this cabinet will be those tools I want close at hand, and to access...

These are final pictures of Stage One. "Stage One" - what does that mean? Well, the first step is to build the cabinet under the bench. The second stage will be to fit out the drawers for the tools. I plan to do some of the latter shortly, and some later. I will post these as they are done. For...

There are at least a dozen (or more) chapters to this build. Find them on my website, at the end of this Index Page ... http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/index.html This is the conclusion of building the drawers. One of the least pleasurable areas of drawer making is fitting drawer...