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Bowfront bath vanity
This is one of the finer things I’ve built and it offered several technicalchallenges. The doors were a real challenge. The veneering was easy,but shaping the serpentine rails was tricky. I used a...
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Walnut Craftsman-style sofa with Moorish influence
I built a pair of these many years ago. This sort of thing is really all about the wood and surfaces and the play of light. Technically this sofa is not hard to build. The mass of the wood is nice....
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2x4 dock box bench
Built this a while back. The constraint was to use cheap kiln dried 2×4 wood with 1×10s used for the recessed panels. The design makes some compromises but the outcomeis not bad. You can walk around it...
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Panel saw
I know this isn’t mostly wood but I noticed Vonhagen posted some machine stuff he designed and made inmetal, so I guess it’s ok. Vonhagen’s cool sliding table saw he...
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7 string classical guitar in rosewood, ebony, spanish cedar and spruce
I blogged loosely about the construction of this guitar here Specs: 7 strings650mm scale. French polish finishEbony fingerboardspanish cedar neckIndian rosewood back and sidesEbony bindingpurfling in...
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Raised bed garden boxes
I joined the corners with sliding dovetails to ensure the boxes stay square and stay together even as termites and contact with dirt consumes the wood. The wood won’t be chemically treated because they...
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Steam box
Made of salvaged, painted pine offcuts. The offcuts weretoo short so I end-joined them with dowels using aJessem dowel jig. Then I flattened the boards a littleusing a jack plane and ran then through...
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Chairs
I like the way this night-time picture of my recent chairs emphasizes form over color or figure. Walnut with quartered white oak back slats. Curvedparts were steam bent except the armchair frontlegs...
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Steam bent walnut dining chairs
Took about 3 months to figure out the frames and inventall the jigs to make the parts. I was burned out afterthat and got back to finishing them and doing the slipseats in the last few weeks.
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Steam bent ebonized modernist dining chair
I did some blog posts about the build process. Entries 30-37 http://lumberjocks.com/Loren/blog/series/4759
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