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designed in the free version of Google Sketchup It's only fitting that so many of my custom furniture commissions are aquarium cabin...

In my previous post, I discussed a project for a friend: a seven-foot-long cabinet stand for his 250-gallon glass terrarium, which is home t...

First coat: cherry stain on the birch case Seems like my journey into woodworking is leading me through a series of aquarium/terrarium ca...

The Wine on Deck shop creates very little scrap these days.  But this wasn't always true, and so there was a box full of laminated off-c...

I bemoaned UPS in a recent post.  Just to show I'm not a bad customer, I'd like to take the time to praise FedEx for their service. ...

I was recently asked to make some custom aquarium cabinet stands.  Apart from having to support over 1,000 pounds, my customer also wanted o...

I was recently asked by my to build some custom aquarium stands for people with unusually large or odd-shaped aquariums.  Since I'm a lo...

I tried to set up an account with UPS to ship packages from my company Wine on Deck.  But there were so many technical problems, multiple ac...

The Back Story The Rotex 150 FEQ is a $500 hand-held orbital sander. With a 6" diameter pad, it's the same size as dozens of oth...

To call them bench grinders is, I have discovered, an offense to owners of wet-wheel tool-sharpening rigs.  A grinder, you see, hogs metal ...

Who are the collectors? Collectors are everywhere, of course. You have your stamp collectors, the baseball card collectors, the (lucky few...

I love my local woodworking store.  It's called Rockler , and it's in Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  There are, appare...

Engineered Incompatibility: a Festool Core Design Principle Anybody familiar with Festool probably also knows that the company's tools...

Festool from a Novice's Perspective The first time I walked into my local woodworker's store, I was seeing most of the power tools ...

My girlfriend and love of my life (xoxo MyMy :-) has been in need of shelving. And she was getting tired of waiting for my cabinetry skills...

I have been on a roll recently: in spite of being a total newb when it comes to furniture-making, I have completed two (that's right TWO...

Confident after my "successful" completion of a bookshelf from plans, I decided to build a similar shelf, but with a few of my own...

After the success of my first bookshelf - which i made from plans, and which used dado grooves to hold the shelves - I decided to do the sam...

I have begun a carpentry project using plans from a book I bought from my friends at the Rockler Store in Cambridge.  So far, things are goi...

I recently got into woodworking, as a way to bring my designs for acoustical traps, component racks, and loudspeakers to life.  Those who...