The Hungry Saw

I regularly get "we don't know anyone else who will do this" projects. This particular one is stair tread ends that stick on the other side of the glass railing panels so the treads look like they go through the glass. The mounting system should fit in the indentation but the installer ended up using an extra bracket for reinforcement and the indentations were not deep enough. Also they weren't centered so the bottoms needed to be milled out further.

So it's a matter of making an appropriate jig in order to get them done as quickly as possible, because neither the tread installer nor the glass installer wanted to deal with figuring it out.

This laundry area in white oak had some large pullouts which are challenging to align, and the walls were crazy because the house is around 100 years old. Turned out great, though!

This cabinet was requested to match the current kitchen cabinets, but with pocket doors on the bottom. I couldn't find simple cove moulding that matched, so I just made my own on the table saw, since it was only about 7ft.

Small white oak vanity, finished with odies oil. I got some good scribes against the floor! Also I replaced the two doors and face of the wall cabinet unit.

My wife makes sourdough, but it is hard to cut with certain knives. I bought a pack of these blades and drew out a design on a scrap piece of walnut. The blade is really sharp so I made a guard for it with a very thin hand saw which just so happened to have the same thickness of blade. I finished it with odies oil, just like the cutting board.

Auri, my two-year-old, has created and been recreating this art piece each time she visits the shop. She calls it "cake" and is very intentional about finding the same items each time and assembling them in this way. It's cute, baffling and intriguing all at once.

... Then there's this girl, putting finish on a bookshelf we built for her, wearing my shirt because it smells like me. I'm so proud 🥲

Usually when my wife has a gift idea she commissions me to build it, but this time I figured she could do it herself, with a little guidance and a jig or two. So cute! (And I don't just mean the project.)

A simple refacing for a bathroom that confirmed I shouldn't reface this particular style of cabinet, which I have encountered once before. The cabinet face is made of plywood, and there are no sides or back, because it's just built into the wall like trim. This particular one had things coming loose or sagging, and some pieces were really crooked, so the whole thing felt like putting lipstick on a pig. But after paint I'm sure it looked pretty good.