First Prize at the Fair!

My chair got first place in the Student division at the 2009 San Diego Fair!

Mahogany Dining Table

This is a dining table and chairs I made for my chair and table classes at Palomar College. The chairs are African Mahogany and inspired by Sam Maloof. The seats are quarter inch plywood with foam on top covered by fabric. The plywood flexes and with the foam they are quite comfortable. The back support was custom fit to my wife's and my backs. The table is also African Mahogany. The top is a 60 inch diameter starburst pattern of 1/8 inch thick bookmatched wedges I made in the shop and veneered to plywood. The pedestal is also inspired by Maloof. Each leg is 2 8/4 boards glued together, so there is a lot of wood there. The pedestal separates to allow a 24 inch insert, making quite a large table when it is expanded. Each half of the pedestal stands on its own, so it is very stable even when expanded. Top is finished with polyurethane and the pedestal and chairs are Tung Oil.

Mahogany Chair

The Amazing Floating Wine Bottle

These are fun little things to make out of scrap that balance bottles of wine.

Walnut Nightstands

A set of walnut nightstands with veneered tops. The drawers are hand dovetailed and are piston fit. The legs were curved by hand with a bandsaw and spoke shave. Finished with Tung Oil.

Veneered Chessboard

A chessboard I made for my veneer class at Palomar College. The checkerboard is walnut and maple, the boarder is ebony, and I forget the name of the large outer boarder veneer. Finished with polyurethane.

Walnut and Purpleheart Box

This is a box I made for my hand tool joinery class at Palomar College. All the wood was squared by hand and the dovetails and mortise and tenon joinery were hand cut. The darker wood is walnut and the purple wood is purpleheart. There is also maple in there for accent. Finished with Tung Oil.

Maple Vanity

A vanity I made for one of my daughters. It is all maple with polyurethane finish. It was an assignment for machine tool joinery class at Palomar College and is my first attempt at making a drawer and door. The cove on the legs were made by running the wood diagonally across a table saw blade.

Mahogany Clock

My first project at Palomar College. A Honduran Mahogany mantle clock. I even cut the glass myself. Finished with Tung Oil applied with sand paper.

Cherry End Table

A table I made when I knew even less than I know now. The rails that hold the magazines are butt jointed to the legs with toothpicks used as dowels. I used pocket screws for the rest of the joinery. It held together for several years. I never liked it and "repurposed" it to make the round cherry table shown later in this blog.

Cherry Game Table with Walnut and Maple Checkerboard

The second thing I ever made. I made this with what I learned watching David Mark's show on TV. Pocket hole joinery throughout. The top is quarter inch thick walnut and maple veneer. I used a hand held belt sander to flatten the top. Not museum quality to say the least, but a nice little table we still use. Finished with polyurethane.