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My original wooden Macbook case held up wonderfully for the five years I needed it.  But in 2018 I got a new Macbook and so I had to build a new case.  I made...
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I designed and built this coffee table from ash, with a bit of wenge for the keys and other details.  There are some fairly complicated joints involved in this that these photos don't really...
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This was a very special project for me, because it was a wedding present to my sister and her husband who got married in the summer of 2017.  Most of the other furniture I've...
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It's become something of a yearly tradition for me to spend my summer vacation time at home in the workshop building a new project. Invariably I fall short of completing the project in that...
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I built this with my friend Philip one summer. We didn't really count on rope being so expensive (it would actually take hundreds of feet to properly load the skeins) so the unit is...
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This hutch remains my biggest project in terms of physical size and (likely) complexity. I adapted a plan from the New Yankee Workshop to work with cheaper, paint-grade materials.  It currently resides in my...
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I designed and built this laptop case out of solid maple. When I first got my 15" Macbook Pro there weren't too many decent cases available, so I built this one. It's been around the...
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This was the first bit of conventional woodworking I did, and I even followed a plan from a magazine to make it.  Made of solid white pine with a cedar...
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I built this coffee table from laminated 'spruce select' plywood and aluminum tubing. This was actually the very first project I did that I would categorize as 'woodworking', and I do so...
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I built this TV stand out of laminated 'spruce select' plywood.  It originally was made to support a 25" CRT set, but thankfully I left off any CRT-specific affordances and so this piece hasn't...
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I designed and built this desk out of mostly solid maple, with some pieces being made of maple plywood.  The desk is designed with a 'mid-century' aesthetic, with inspiration from George...