Steve's Woodworking
This is just a simple page to show some of the woodworking projects that I have competed. I am an amateur woodworker, with more theory than practice, and as a result my projects are completed on a fairly slow time table. I am working at developing more hand tool skills - chisels, planes, scrapers, etc.- and moving away from doing everything with power tools. Cabinet scrapers have been a great discovery and have eliminated virtually all need for sandpaper. I am also trying to incorporate new skills and new techniques into each project. With that said, I am still tied (so far) to using a tablesaw (Delta), jointer (Delta), and lunchbox planer (DeWalt) for the initial milling and dimensioning of lumber, as well as some of the joinery. A Porter Cable 690 router with fixed and plunge bases, along with a Leigh FMT jig are still also heavily used for joinery.
Some of my projects
Each of the Pictures/Titles will open a new browser tab/window with more pictures and description - those pages are not yet written, however.
This is a small oak bookcase, custom designed and built for a friend's kitchen for her cookbooks. This replaced a smaller prefab unit that was too small and didn't fit the decor.
This is a small walnut table, built to fit a small space off our hallway, beneath a mirror. It is a simple design, but I was especially pleased with the grain match for the two pieces making up the top of the table.
This is a tool chest, built from Rockler plans, to house my small tools and measuring devices.
This is a quilt rack that I built for my wife, using oak from the old barn at her family farm - the wood is over 100 years old.
This is a rather specialized little box, based on an old one made of oak. It is designed to keep track of the presser feet used with Sewing machines.
This is a pair of wood puzzles I made, primarily to practice some hand tool techniques. One is a walnut intersection of three pieces of wood at right angles - an impossible joint. The other is made of purpleheart and is the intersection of three planes, also at right angles. This is the simplest of the 'burl' type of wood puzzles.