Ron Stewart

Few parts of this project went smoothly, and the final door assembly was no exception. It started well enough. Attaching the outer trim wasn't too...

 My wife wanted a light/whitish finish for the cabinet. Maple is pretty light toned, so my first thought was to use a clear water-based poly finish...

The doors are 3/4" maple plywood slabs with 1/2" wide solid maple trim and inlaid tiles and accent strips. They were by far the most difficult part...

 The case is a basic face frame cabinet. [Sewing Cabinet Plywood Case Dimensions.jpg] I used pocket screws to build the face frame and dowels to a...

I had originally planned to build the entire cabinet from solid maple, but high lumber prices (soft maple is $7.50 per board foot at my favorite su...

 This series of posts documents the design and construction of a storage cabinet I built to hold my wife's sewing machine and related accessories a...

 At this point, the moment of truth had arrived. It was time to attach the tensioning wires and hope they didn't tear the pyramids apart or result ...

 I wanted to use glue to attach the pyramids to the disks, because I didn't want any visible fasteners. But it was very apparent that I would need ...

Before I could apply finish to the disks and attach the pyramids, I had to iron out the details of how to attach the three outer support wires. Th...

 I had an old scrap walnut board with lots of character that I thought would be perfect for this project. I had hoped I could resaw it in half so I...

Now that I knew I was going to use beading wire with crimp-secured end loops, I had to decide how I was going to connect the two pyramids. (I decid...

 Early on, I was pretty sure I was going to use some kind of wire to hold the table together. I remembered working on a craft project with my daugh...