Hello and welcome to my blog! This post continues a series in which Iâm building a pair of credenzas, one of American black walnut and the other American black cherry.  In this post I will focus on the cherry credenza as the cabinet facade comes to life in the form of …
Hello and welcome to the continuation of the Japanese Tool Box build, part of a series in which a Japanese Tool Box, inspired by Chris Hall of The Carpentry Way, is created as a gift to my son. Where we left off the mortises had been cut in one half of …
Hello and welcome to my blog, this post begins a series on building a Japanese Toolbox. Â This box will be a gift to my soon to be one year old son, for now a place to store his toys and odds and ends, and hopefully something that he keeps with …
This cabinet, which features scissor hinges, is not conducive to a typical frame and panel door, to my eye. And so I’ve been moving toward a design which minimizes the appearance of the frame work, first by putting it flush with the panel (the panel will not be recessed) and …
Hello and welcome again to my blog. Â In this post I am in the beginning stages of building a door which will enclose my medicine cabinet. Â I’ve chosen white cypress for this cabinet and have continued along with white cypress for the door as well. This door may like quite …
Hello, and welcome to my blog, my name is Brian Holcombe.  I specialize in woodworking by hand with hand tools. My tagline on SMC and the title of this post are a Frank Gehry quote, one that has really stuck with me as it certainly describes my feeling of how proceeding …