Ross Leidy

Here are some progress photos on some miscellaneous bits. I did do a test with edge-to-edge magnets.  They did pretty well self-aligning, and they...

I used this opportunity to get some experience with the Leigh D4R dovetail jig.  I bought it used in a package deal with the Leigh mortise and teno...

I waited until the the main part of the cabinet was built to work on the removable rear panel.  That way I could take the actual dimensions of the ...

Google will provide you with a lot of information on this process, but briefly, the common practice for ebonizing involves creating iron acetate by...

It's the final push to complete the shaping, sanding, and glue-up for the support frame.  On the front/back stretchers, I added a 1/4" roundover on...

The last bit of joinery remaining are the stretchers between the longer front/back stretchers.  Are they really stretchers or do they have a differ...

With all the joinery completed on the legs, I could work on rounding over their edges.  I went slowly, raising the 1/2" radius bit a little each ti...

I finally got to switch gears and do some work on the legs/support for the cabinet.  Some of the rough shaping I had done a while back, but didn't ...

As a final sub-assembly, I glued the bottom and the fixed shelf together.  Here, I used some clamping squares to keep the front edges in the same p...

After completing all the boring sanding of the individual panels, I started to glue-up some sub-assemblies.   Breaking-up the assembly into multipl...

Pulling back the curtain reveals a hideous sight.  Strewn cables, dust bunnies, an ethernet switch, missing wall plates, etc.  Some really nasty st...

The adjustable shelves will rest on the usual shelf pins.  All of the shelves will be the same size with indents on the underside to index the shel...