I do a little woodworking in my spare time. I inherited the tools from my Dad and I didn't get near enough time with him to learn how to use them all, so I'm pretty much fumbling my way along. Here's what I've made so far.

This is the next project, a joint effort between me and my wife. So far all we've done is buy the wood, seen here. That's a fifteen inch wide slab of zebrawood for the main surface, and the supports will be wenge and red oak.

This was my first real piece of furniture, and it was a good learning experience. I built a routing jig to shape the curved legs, and did the mortises and tenons that hold the legs together by hand with a chisel. The top is Philippine Mahogany and the bottom is Poplar. The surface "floats" on the base via hidden cross pieces. I call it the Boehner Table, due to the unhealthy orange color of the poplar after staining. Lesson learned: if the stain goes on unevenly, adding more won't fix it.

I made twenty of these to be the table decorations at our wedding. I won't tell you how I made them. If you can't figure it out, you'll have to either a) spend the rest of your days living in a world that still contains a litle bit of mystery, or b) google it.

This was a fun one to do. You can probably imagine where I got the idea: "Gee I've got a lot of scrap wood here..." Getting these little buggers to fit tightly enough together to make this table functional took a lot of doing, but I like the result. I finished this with many layers of urethane so we can use this table on our front porch.

I made one of these coat racks as my first woodworking project. Shortly after I started dating my wife, I wanted to make her something by hand for her birthday and I had the brilliant idea of making her a second one, just like mine. Of course, it never occurred to me to wonder what would happen if we got married. So, now we have two coat racks.