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While we get quite a few wine cabinet submissions (and all of them are great, mind you), this one stuck out with its two-toned color scheme and marble tile top.
My wine cabinet, built with pine frame, panel sides, glass doors and marble tile top.
Tony LoRusso
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Matt Becker
Content Coordinator
This reader’s project submission comes all the way from the Mediterranean (unless there’s a town called Cyprus I’m not aware of…):
This is a double length chest of draws made for a customer with a turned bowl and spoon thrown in as a gift as I do on most of my projects. The chest is made of Swedish pine to match existing bedroom furnishings.
Peter Grice, Cyprus
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Matt Becker
Content Coordinator
Ah, resolutions…
Depending on how you look at them, they could be the best or worst part of flipping the calendar to January.
Here are my plans for 2010: instead of vowing to drop 20 pounds or remodel my basement—both of which are equally unlikely—I’ve made a couple of woodworking-related resolutions this year. The first one should be easy to pull off:
1. I’m gonna tame my tangled mess of air compressor hose.
Sounds ridiculously easy, doesn’t it? Right now, it lays on the floor in a pile where it gets in my way, because the hose has a memory to it and doesn’t coil up easily. I kick it around and shove it here and there, but I need a better solution. Retractable? Maybe hung from the ceiling? This year I’m going to figure something out. (Advice anyone?)
Who knew there were so many uses for pallets? You do, and the comments prove it.
What a nice response we’ve had from you folks to our recent blog post about turning skids into usable lumber (“Skid Row”). Looks like we tapped into a good topic here. Keep your comments and suggestions coming in, please!
I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus lately from the blog to get a big tool review ready for the January print issue of the magazine. And, aside from a lot of heavy lifting to hit that deadline, it’s added a third floor to my growing tower of skids outside the shop. Looks like it’s time to start cutting some of them up and figuring out what to build…
In that regard, I thought it might be fun to tally up all the many ways you have commented that you use skid lumber. Hopefully you’ll give the rest of us some good ideas for turning pallets into projects:
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This Gustav Stickley-inspired accent piece holds a full complement of wine glasses and champagne flutes, and it keeps a case of your favorite wine close at hand. Build it from quartersawn white oak to add some authenticity and durability to this project.
Classic Chess Board
This heirloom chess board was inspired by a James Krenov design that ingeniously tackles the wood movement problems inherent in using two wood species. If you’re a chess junkie as well as a woodworker, you’ll be smiling from the first cut through the last checkmate with this clever project.
Scroll-Sawn Nightlights
Looking for something to interest the kids when they can’t sleep or to reassure them during a late-night thunderstorm? These simple scroll-sawn nightlights are also a good project for introducing older gradeschoolers to the basics of woodworking. Tighten up a fresh scroll saw blade and let your imagination go.
Arts & Crafts Workbench
When our longtime contributor Ian Kirby sets out to design a sturdy and practical workbench, rest assured it will be a shop fixture that will stand the test of time. Ian’s bench will provide not only a proper workstation, but also essential feedback on the flatness of your stock as well as your planing technique.
Cherry Gun Cabinet
Nothing blends the avocations of hunting and woodworking quite like a gun cabinet. Rick White, our resident “man in the field,” so to speak, took on the challenge of creating this fitting home for his firearm collection. The combination of rail-and-stile construction, with both built-up crown and dentil moldings, give it a traditional flair.
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