A Cedar Toy Chest

In the Beginning a board...

Planing and cutting are the beginning operations.

This board produced quite the shavings.

Careful layout.

Fats cutting with Japanese pull saw.

Remove majority of waste.

Pare the finished pins.

Small side table with mahogany top and ash legs. Rosewood pegs tenon at leg.
Side table with drawer, small mushrooms inlayed on side. Maple top and legs, mahogany drawer front with pine sides, rosewood pull.

Front view

Book case made with plywood, maple and poplar face-frame.

Sneaky mushroom in lid.

A series of dovetailed boxes, all hand-cut.
Mahogany dovetailed box.

Small dovetailed box with fan marquetry.

Cube in a cube in a cube, ash. They were each made inside eachother and cannot escape.

Lids of sliding boxes stay in because of tapered lid.

Trio of walnut slide boxes.
I make tiny ones, too.

Carved lid of mushrooms on small slide box.

This is a reproduction of a Shaker bench as seen in Hancock, MA, cherry wood.

Tiny step stool of white oak for little daughter, thru tenons with wedges.

This is a cherry board for the following stool.

Here are the completed turned legs.

Carving the seat.

Finished stool, cherry with maple under-carriage. Wedged thru tenons at joints.

My wife loves wooden spoons, I often make them for friends who love to cook.
Various small craft. I make many different things and enjoy trying new techniques. Two small turned boxes, zebrawood bowl on lathe, and Shaker oval box.

Mortar and pestle for my wife, ash bowl and purpleheart pestle.

Practice at chess peices. A set will follow.

Our dining room table. Light and airy as intended. All mortise and tenon with pegs, keyed thru tenons hold it all together.

These mushrooms are caeved under the table top and measure 8" in diameter.
Here is a top view of table, tresles and stretchers are ash and the top is european beech.

This is my daughters "downstairs" toychest. It is all of pine, milk painted, with hand-cut dovetailed corners.

Spring-loaded hinges keeps the lid in any position and must be shut. Safety first.

More safety with the top edge scooped away. Even my fingers are safe.