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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:
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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 !!

Cornering the market!! An inspiration to all us mortals.

Wow! Yes, that's super!!!

I still remember in 2008, one day I took the afternoon off to go buy a few boards of walnut from a guy in the next town. It was probably 7-8 straight grain boards, and one *whopper* plank of crotch grain . I'm curious now what I did with that board...