Ross Leidy

Tonight I finished the top-left quadrant.  No hiccups, fortunately.  I had left space for the "string" for the yellow balloon, thinking I might p...

Armed with a new circle-cutting tool, I thought it would be smooth sailing cutting out the balloons and the outline rings.  Nope.  There were two t...

While waiting for the circle cutter to arrive, I identified the boundaries for another independent module I could assemble - the cluster underneath...

Initially, I didn't plan to make any blog posts for this project because I didn't know if it would work out or crash and burn (still don't). But si...

In the near future, I'll be building a sliding panel similar to what Ron Stewart did here.  In my case, I thought I'd try to make the panel a sort ...

After about 2-1/2 months, the cabinet is finished and ready for use.   Media cabinet project summary: • Baltic birch plywood with Izombe veneer an...

For the drawer pull, I decided on a simple edge-mounted design.  I wanted it to be black to match the legs, and to avoid another round of ebonizing...

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...