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We need to install some drawer runners for the drawer to ride on, and we also need to complete the drawer itself.  We finally built the drawer and sanded the drawer runners!  We have the drawer [...]

After the crucial dry fitting was complete, it was time to start gluing the pieces together and moving towards getting the drawer and fronts together.  We glued the legs together in two different [...]

The parts have now been cut and processed, but do they fit?  All of the drawing, planning and cutting comes down to how everything fits. So for all of the planning and careful cutting, I need to [...]

A table needs legs!  These beautiful legs were created by Don Russell.  He used an XYZ machine to make the legs out of rock maple.  The wood is very hard and very dense and machined very well.  [...]

If you have seen my blog entry for the American chess board, you will understand the need for the next project!  The American chess table will go under the chess board to provide storage for the [...]

The 17 inch bowl blank is part of a group of logs that were harvested from north Georgia.  Jerry German had a friend with a few trees which needed to be removed from their property.  A group of [...]

We were having some fun with scrap wood around the shop, and we found that the miniature snowmen ornaments are not only fun to turn, but they are also fun to decorate!  The bodies are made from [...]

My father and I completed a project from a recently published woodworking magazine, in order to surprise my Mother in law and my Mother for Mother’s Day.  The project was a six board [...]

Our woodworking mentor, Don Russell came up with a new design for the segmented Christmas Tree ornaments we turn.  The new star design requires an unprecedented level of precision!  The overall [...]

I was recently asked to help a fellow instructor during his marquetry class at the John C. Campbell Folk School.  The students over a week, made unique chessboards using modern and old marquetry [...]