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Please note the date of builds as techniques change over time

JOINERY AND TECHNIQUES

Breadbaord Ends

Preparing a Board without a Thicknesser

Sliding Dovetails by Hand

Through Dovetails

Half-blind Dovetails

Mitred Through Dovetails

Dado/housing joint by hand

Power Removing Waste from Half Blind Sockets

Making a Frame-and-Panel Door by Sean Hught

A Primer for Mortice-and-Tenon Joints. Part 1: The Blind Joint

Part 2 : Drawboring

Morticing with Chisels II

A Little Fun with Dovetails

Peening Dovetails in Wood

A Thicknessing Technique

The #140 Trick is Dead

Setting Blades in (Adjusterless) Planes

Panel Glue Up Without Clamps

Using Auger Bits in Hard Wood

BOXES AND OTHER

Lapdesk

Coopered Box Lid

Chef Knives and a Knife Block

Building a Mitred Pencil Box with a Shooting Board

Making a Wooden Hinge

FURNITURE BUILDS

A Chest of Drawers for Jamie (2005)

A Pair of End Tables (2007)

Armoire Project (2010)

Part One: The Carcase

Part Two: A New Angle on Scratch Stock - creating beads

Part Three: Using Rebate Planes

Part Four: Building A Raised Panel Door

Building the frame

Raising a panel with the Veritas Skew Rabbet Plane

Part Five: Hinge Morticing

Part Six: Attaching the Face Frame

Part Seven: Hats Off to the Pros

Part Eight: Drawer Design and Drawer Bottoms

Part Nine: Building the Drawer

Part Ten: Completion of the Project

A Shaker Table for Mother's Day (2010)

Sideboard-Entertainment Centre ...... "The Coopered End Table" (2011)

Part One: Coopered doors

Part Two: Curving and grooving the frame

Part Three: Building the Frame

Part Four: A Completed Door

Part Five: And Now For Something Completely Different!

Part Six: London-style Half-blind Dovetailed Drawer

Part Seven: Nearing the Last Lap

Part Eight: The Final Piece

Part Nine: Critique and Modification

Part Ten: The End. Finis. Absolutely Done!

Entertainment Centre based on Military (Campaign) Chests (2011)

The Start

Some Days I Should Stay in Bed!

Glueing Up

Scraping

Bun Feet

It's Just Not Cricket!

First Stages in Building Drawers

Half Blind Dovetails in Jarrah (with blue tape)

The Last Dovetail

Fitting Handles

The Completed Chests

Kist (blanket chest) (2013)

Building Hans Wegner's "The Chair" (2014)

Fitting the Front and Rear Stretchers (Part 1)

Sawing Tenon Shoulders on the Curve

Fitting the Front and Rear Stretchers (Part 2)

Slotting the Stretchers (Pt 1 - How would you do this?)

Slotting the Stretchers (Pt 2)

End of Phase One

Initial Steps for the Arms and Backrest

The Arm-Backrest Joint (Pt 1)

The Arm-Backrest Joint (Pt 2)

Shaping the Arms and Back (Part 1)

Shaping the Arms and Back (Part 2)

Weaving the Seat and Completing The Chair

Post Script

Lingerie Chest (2016)

Coved Frame-and-Panel

One Step Back

Back on Track

Dent Removal

Preparing for the Drawer Blades

Moving Forward

Sliding Dovetails

The Proof of the Pudding ...

Starting on the Drawer Runners

Mortice and Tenons

A Stage Completed

Designing the Drawers

Half Blind Dovetails with Blue Tape

Building the Drawers

Four Down and Four To Go

Through Dovetails

All The Drawers Are Done

Finishing the Drawers

Finishing the Carcase

Fitting the Lid Hinges

Top of The World to You!

The Brass Stay

The Devil Lies in the Details (final)

Post Script

Post Script II

Kitchen Rebuild (2017)

Building Shaker Cabinet Doors, and hand-finishing water-based poly

The Kitchen is Finished!

Sofa Table (2017)

Sofa Table - Legs

Sofa Table - End Rails

Sofa Table - The Bevel Lies in the Details

Sofa Table - The Secret Drawer

Sofa Table - All The Way To Completion

PostScript

Apothecary Chest (2018)

The Carcase

Stopped Dados

More Stopped Dados

Stopped Rebates and Drawer Blades

Better Stopped Dados

Installing Drawer Blades

Machining Drawer Sides

A Start on the Drawers

Dovetailing on an angle

Beginning the drawers

Video update

Shaping the Drawer Fronts - part 1

Shaping the Drawer Fronts - part 2

Through Dovetails (end of drawers)

The Drawers Are Done!

Shiplapping the Back

New Knobs

Final

Coffee table for Jamie (2018)

Coffee Table for my nephew (2019)

Introduction

Mitred Through Dovetails

The Drawer Case

Assembling the Carcase

Rounding the Ends

Building the Base

Finishing the Base

Planning and Building a Drawer

Final

Harlequin Side Table (2019)

The Central Drawer Blade

Fine Dados/Housings

Rounding the Dovetails

The Legs

Installing the Dividers

Preparing the drawers

Drawer Bottoms into Slips

Making Drawer Pulls

Final Pictures

Entry Hall Table for my niece (2020)

Preparing and dimensioning Stock

Start of mitred dovetailed casework

Fine tuning of through mitre dovetails and completion of case

Front bevels and rear rebates

Drawer dividers and dados

Tuning, re-doing and glueing

Drilling leg mortices for tapered sliding bases

Tapered sliding base socket

Attaching the legs

Getting screwed

Preparing for the drawers

Half-blind lipped drawer fronts

Video

Drawer bottoms and drawer pulls

Final Photos

Transformations (2020)

Legs

Drawer case design

Fitting the drawer case and building the drawer

Three-cornered Stool (2020)

Building the stool

Underbench Cabinet: a drawer design and making opus (2020/1)

Design and case construction

Ripping with the slider

The Rebate

Dados for drawer blades

Gluing Up

Adding colour

Dados

Preparing for the drawer dividers

Drawer Dividers, part two

Blind Sliding Dovetail

Progress Shots

Before the Drawers

Drawer parts before dovetailing the drawers

Dovetailing for Blood!

Dovetailing for Blood! ... part 2

Dovetailing for Blood! ... part 3

Drawer Bottoms and Slips

Completion of Cabinet

What Lies Behind Drawer #1

Vision Revisited

Drawer #2 - The Skeleton Drawer

Drawers #3 and #4

Drawers #5, 6 and 7

Not Really Furniture - rebuilding Thorens TD150 turntable (2021)

Beds and Bedhead (2022)

Power and Hand Together: Nightstands (2023)

1. Mitred Cases

2. Mitred Joints - Opening Pandora's Box

3. The Little Drawer

4. Preparing the Drawer Parts

5. Bow Front Drawers (part 1)

6. Bow Front Drawers (part 2)

7. Pardon, But Your Slip Is Showing

8. Preparations for the Base

9. Legs and Aprons

10. It's Beginning to Look Like a Nightstand!

11. The Power of the Press

12. Skyhook

13. Fiddling all the way to The End

Dining Carver Chairs (2024)

1. The design and its development

2. Design Details

3. Shaping the Seat and Tenons

4..Shaping the Underside of the Seats

5. New Legs

6. Completing the Legs

7. Completing the Seats

8. Gluing up the Legs

9. Beginning the Arms

10. More on the Arm Jigsaw

11. Arms - Part l

12. Arms - Part ll

13. Corrections and Repairs

14. Closing in

15. Completion

Dining Trestle Table (2024)

The Base NEW

The Top - Preparations NEW

The Top - Bringing It All Together NEW

Cross Bracing NEW

Images of furniture built