A gift to an old friend In 2019, while visiting Colorado for a family reunion, we dropping in on my old friend Chris and his family. They are vegan and therefore prefer to make their own dairy free tortillas from … Continue reading Tortilla Press

Project Wrap And Photo Gallery Procuring the right pieces of walnut to make up the drawer fronts required at least four separate trips to Crosscut Hardwoods in Seattle spread out over six months so that the inventory had time to … Continue reading The Mid-Century Modern Walnut Dresser – Part 5 – The End

Making Smaller Boxes I started working on the drawers back in November 2018 and just now completed them in May 2019 so six months of this year long project was spent just making drawers. There is a caveat however as … Continue reading The Mid-Century Modern Walnut Dresser – Part 4 – The Drawers

Making The Foundation During my last trip to the lumber yard, I found the perfect piece of 12/4 walnut that had some nice curly figure to it and was long and wide enough to make the entire base frame and … Continue reading The Mid-Century Modern Walnut Dresser – Part 3 – The Base

Making A Large Box Back at the garage, I used my thickness planer to bring the 4/4 down to its final thickness of 13/16″ and clean up all the hit and miss planer marks left from the saw mill. I then … Continue reading The Mid-Century Modern Walnut Dresser – Part 2 – The Case

Project Origin And Design Spring 2018; my wife Amy was looking for a dresser on craigslist to replace the cheap one we bought also on craigslist about nine years earlier.  As is typical when trying to find furniture together, she … Continue reading The Mid-Century Modern Walnut Dresser – Part 1 – The Beginning

Inspiration It was the summer of 2017 and the time had come for me to buy a proper workbench and so I did what I always do when looking to make a large purchase; I did my research. I learned … Continue reading The Maple Nicholson Workbench