The Woodshop Shed

adventures in woodworking and home maintenance, from my shop in an oversized backyard shed

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Entertainment Center - My Latest Child

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Entertainment Center - My Latest ChildWe have a running joke in my house where we measure my more involved projects in terms of creating a child. This started back in 2008 when I began building a dresser for my now wife that took a pregnancy length (9-months) to complete. This was mostly because I stopped to build a bunk bed for our daughters (we weren't married then but she had a 10year old and I a 7 year old) as well as other things since I could only work at night/weekends.Fast Forward to 2019 when my wife won a 65-inch TV from a work raffle and we decided we needed a new entertainment center. I worked on the design then began building out the drawers that would hold some of our DVDs in early 2020.Well, this project has turned out to not just be a pregnancy to us but the equivalent of a 15-month old toddler. Again, it's because I worked on several Christmas gifts, a changing table for my granddaughter, and a few other things. However, it is finally home and the wife is happy.As she is German, I tried to loosely base the design off of a German Schrank. I used white oak 3/4” plywood and quartersawn white oak for sides, face frames, drawer faces, and doors. Unfortunately, due to white oak plywood's extreme cost in the last several months, I had to use red oak 1/4” ply for the backs. I also cut the drawer sides from poplar and used 1/8” baltic birch ply for the DVD dividers.There are four drawers capable of holding 20 DVDs each (nowhere enough but…), shelving for a small Sonos Soundbar, Blu-Ray player, and the cable box as well as any blankets or such she wants. The glass shelves are supported using wooden brackets I made and illuminated using LED strip lights from SuperBrightLEDs.com. Finally, the finial on top is only the third or fourth time I have used a lathe so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.



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Maple Extension Table

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Maple Extension TableThis is the first extension table I've built. It is made from soft maple that I milled and dried. It has a lot of curl and tiger stripe figure. I had no idea of that before I started planing the wood. I made the slides from 36 heavy duty drawer slides and then attached them to poplar boards that are screwed to the table top. The table is 42 x 42 with one 12 drop in leaf. I finished with gunstock stain and then lacquer. I'm not a huge fan of using lacquer, but thought I'd try it with this table. The legs are 3 thick and made with a lock miter router bit. I didn't have any 12/4 maple and this looks nicer than just gluing several pieces together I think.



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My first Kalimba

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My first KalimbaNot fancy, but it sounds pretty good. I have an appreciation now for people that can play these things – especially more than one note at a time. I'd attach a sound sample if I could figure out how. It's a lot louder than I thought it would be. And it really sustains which means the notes tend to run into each other.



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Walnut humidor

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Walnut humidorBeen gone a while. So here's a semi recent project. American black walnut and Spanish cedar humidor. 6 coat lacquer finish. Queen Anne inspired legs.



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