Entryway French Cleat System

Pens

Grandmother's Quilt Ladder

Holiday Cutting Boards

My first commission: Quick-Fix on some wicker chairs

A local antiques dealer asked me if I could do a quick fix on a set of old wicker chairs that she had in her shop.  They are in pretty bad shape.  She just wants them sturdy and functional.  She asked me to remove the wicker and fill in the void and she is going to put cushions on them.

no wicker and part of where the wicker attaches is completely broken off

Big old crack in the real leg.  Pried it apart and put some west systems epoxy in there and clamped it

used a jigsaw to remove the wicker area in its entirety

Oak plywood cut to fit and attached with pocket screws, hey, I did say quick-fix

holds my weight just fine

one coat of mission oak poly-stain that I had laying around just to make it look a bit nicer

Took me 1 hour on the dot. 1 down 3 to go

Bar top for my wife's birthday

 My wife wanted a bar for our kitchen island until I do the full remodel next year

The finished product

Made a pattern and used an upcut spiral bit to cut roughly halfway through

Cut down the center with a jigsaw

flip it over and trim the excess with a pattern bit 

Glue in a strip of walnut and hand-plane flush

satisfying

rinse and repeat

marking out the supports

Maple and Cherry Hall Bench

all the pieces milled, cut to final dimensions, and all joinery cut.  I made MDF patterns for the legs and stretchers, rough cut on the bandsaw and finished with a pattern bit on the router table.

Dry fit

Top gluing up