Ahab's shelf
Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


or a one-legged table. Because of my day job, I usually hate naming things and I'm not good at it.My wonderfully patient wife identified that the stuff I like keeping by the door was taking over the kitchen counter. Since this is a high-traffic intersection, a small freestanding shelf would get bumped and knocked over frequently. And I have an irrational aversion to mounting a shelf or two to the side of the cabinet. So I grabbed some scrap wood and threw this together.It's unconnected to cabinet, wall, and trim by nestling between two of them, and I screwed a wedge into the underside of the counter to secure the top of the upright. Tried a few new-to-me things:

• Alder
• Pocket hole joinery
• tea-based dye (Swirt didn't create it, but his was the most useful write up for me: http://www.timberframe-tools.com/techniques/alcohol-based-tea-stain/)

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