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<head><meta name="description" content="Woodworking hobby page"/><meta name="keywords" content="wood, woodworking, table saw, leigh, dovetail, jig, bank, bookshelf"/></head>I enjoy woodworking.  Well I enjoy spending time in the workshop.  Due to time constraints I am very slow.  Very very slow.  At my current rate of production I have projects queued up for several years.

[imageauto|Fir and Cherry Bookshelf|{UP}wood/bookshelf.jpg]

I've been working on this bookshelf for about a year now for the room we call the library.  Kim is growing impatient.  Here you see it at its current state of completion as of mid-December 2003.  It's from a plan in Fine Woodworking.  Maybe you recognize it, it was on the cover.  It is cherry and fir.  I cheated and used 1/2" fir plywood for the panels, but I did get some nice recycled old growth fir for the shelves.

Here is the finished product (hooray):

[imageauto|The Finished Product|{UP}wood/shelf.jpg]

I also made some banks for Elizabeth and her cousins.  They have old combination post office box doors (got em on Ebay).  Just so I don't forget them, the combinations are HGB, EVH, and EVA (or something like that).  Elizabeth's bank is cherry with maple inlaid dovetails.  Those in the know will recognize this as a giveaway that the Leigh D4 dovetail jig was used.  Finish is boiled linseed oil, shellac, and paste wax.

[imageauto|You can put it in the bank|{UP}wood/bank.jpg]

Her cousins' banks were made with padouk and maple inlays.  Same finish.  Thought I kept some pictures of them but I can't find them.  Too bad, the padouk is stunning.

[imageauto|Cathy's Shelf|{UP}wood/shelf1.jpg]
[imageauto|Another Angle|{UP}wood/shelf2.jpg]

Check out the semi-boring white shelf I made for Catherine's room, and the [[Kiosk PC]] I made with Rick Stover's walnut.

Some pictures of the shop.  This is its usual state of disarray.  About once every 3 months or so I clean it up a bit, but the workbench is pretty much a perpetual black hole.

[imageauto|Gotta build a proper bench soon|{UP}wood/shop3.jpg]

[imageauto|Table saw, jointer, dust collector|{UP}wood/shop2.jpg]

[imageauto|Bandsaw|{UP}wood/shop1.jpg]

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