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I may contribute a bit more in the coming few weeks... I just got shoved into "early retirement" today. Thanks, Scrooge!

I always enjoy reading this Forum.

Great work! It looks like a very cool re-use scheme for the old door.

It is beautiful!
I've seen on some guitar forums where they abbreviate "mahogany" to "hog". I don't think that befits this luxe craft though

Hi Pete,

You asked about my desk from years ago... here is a link to the final look. The top was made of long oak planks joined with glue and dowels:
viewtopic.php?p=11464#p11464

Good luck in your endeavors!

I wish I know more, but I don't know more than what you've seen.
There were 1-2 times over the last 15 years that he got "enough" of the forum and dropped out for a while.

This entire thread is highly informative. I will just mention that my first Shopsmith WW project in 2007 used horizontal boring and dowels to help glue up a wide desktop I made. It is still perfect and gap-free 15 years later. I do remember running a handplane over the finished joints, before sandin...

I would gravitate toward using that fine extension, more than the original counter! With my beverage and such

Oh, happy memories.
I believe it was 2009 and somehow a blizzard called off my work one day, but I still got the Buick over to a guy's place to pick up a Craigslist jewel !!

Unfortunately I can't make it either Friday or Saturday.
Interesting aside: Gerstner corp. is also in Dayton, and is also having a Gerstner fest on Friday Oct. 6.

Legendary companies!!!

Very nice save, on the drawers, and the whole kit and caboodle !!