This project is Aubrey's chest of drawers. The dresser is 4' tall and 3' wide. The 4 drawers are deep and good sized. The project was completed using 3/4" oak vaneer ply with solid oak trim. I utilized different trimming techniques with my router and solid oak pieces. The finish is golden oak with 4 coats of polyurathane. The finish is shiny and beautiful. The dresser was expensive to build because it possesses a lot of solid oak. I pay around $6 per linear foot for the solid oak 1" by 12". This dresser will probably make it to our future grandchild's room someday passed down as family heirlooms. This project was extremely fun and our daughter Aubrey loves the dresser.

This project was comleted while visiting TN recently. This is a 60" vanity. Two of them were built identical to each other for both the master and geust bathroom. The challange in this project was aquainting myself with my parent's work area and tools. I did bring my router table in order to build the cabinet doors but I mostly used Papa's tools and radial arm saw. I used 3/4" vaneer ply while 100% of the front is solid oak. The front of the vanity is trimmed with solid oak, along with solid oak drawer faces and the cabinet doors have solid oak styles and rails. I love this vanity because I designed 2 drawers that are observed at the bottom of the vanity that have drawer faces with toe kickes cut out of them. With these two bonus drawers that are not found on many vanities, this vanity has the advantage of having a total of 6 drawers along with the cabinet space. After building this vanity I was somewhat jealous because the vanities I built for our home are so plain compared to this one. Also, you will notice there is no finish on the vanity. This is in part due to lack of time spent in TN and also partly because this vanity was built for my parents who are themselves very handy and they have since put a finish along with 3 coats of polyurathane on the vanity. My parents do not have access to a digital camera so I do not have any pictures of either of the vanities with a finish on them.

This project I really enjoyed. I built a center island kitchen cabinet. The cabinet is large and measured at 40" wide and 48" long. There were 6 cabinets and 5 drawers total. The cabinet was built combining 3/4" oak vaneer ply and solid oak. I used my new router and table to complete the cabinet doors and drawer faces. My wife and daughter bought me the 2.25 hp hitachi router for Father's Day and I built my router table in order to complete this project. The customer provided the solid oak that was given to them from a jobsite. I hit a few nails while using the free lumber but all in all the peice turned out great at just the right price.