My first big project

[gustoid]

The project took me at least three weeks, I was only able to work on weekends and some evenings... as long as it was not raining.

[cork58]

Very Very nice work! Finish looks great. Next project?

[gustoid]

My current project is an Arts and Crafts style dresser for my daughter.

[Ed62]

Nice work. I can see you getting a little more room to work in (inside).

Ed

[BobSch]

Nothing like jumping in the deep end of the pool! A very nice looking piece built under some pretty restrictive conditions. Good job.

[crokett]

That is very nice work! What is the finish?

That reminds me of my first project. I built a bookcase on my apartment balcony with a circular saw, router and hand drill.

[dbhost]

Beats the tar out of my first "post woodshop" project. (We won't talk about the hundreds of skateboards and pencil boxes made in High School shop class...).

I rebuilt a rented pop up camper's dinette table, and the flip down stove table after a tequila induced stumble into the camper at Padre Island made the originals no longer functional. That was done with a circ saw, drill, and my old Ryobi router / Wolfcraft table.

[gustoid]

This is a very cool site. It is nice to hear that so many others began much like myself. Before posting here I had imagined that everyone had a 2000 sq ft workshop with all the top of the line tools.

It would seem that I did not provide enough detail with my original post. So I will try to add some more details.

I made the chest as a gift for my sisters wedding. I bought the plans from the internet (can't recall the site) and I made it from pine boards and pine plywood, and the legs were made from cedar. The original plan was to just lacquer it and you would see the contrast between the cedar and pine, but I ended up staining it all one colour, then a couple of coats or lacquer was applied. the inside bottom was some oak flooring scraps that I picked up for next to nothing. I should also give my wife credit for helping with the sanding and staining portions. Time was getting tight so while I was at work my wife had some time to help out. We even had to set up a tarp over the project on the deck so we could sand and stain in the rain.

[BobSch]

This is a very cool site. It is nice to hear that so many others began much like myself. Before posting here I had imagined that everyone had a 2000 sq ft workshop with all the top of the line tools.

Oh, You must mean Rod