Category: Cabinetry & Joinery

The table came back in February with a crack running 18 in along the grain, opening about 1/8 in at

There is a drawer in the shop that holds two sample joints. One is a set of through dovetails cut

A couple came in certain they wanted walnut for a dining table, and left having chosen ash, which nobody expected

The drawing said the alcove would be 96 in wide. When I turned up to install, it was 94 3/4

A demolition contractor once offered me a truckload of joists out of a 1890s mill building — Douglas fir, 3

Twenty-two panels, one wall, and a client who had seen a photograph of a library in which the figure ran

The alcove had a cast iron radiator on the left, a steel beam dropping 8 in below the ceiling across

The client had a drawing from an architect, a 1908 apartment with walls that wandered an inch and a quarter