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Kerry Drake's Product Review – February 2010 Archive (4)

The Phantom Woodworking Show

Saturday my wife and I got up early (for us, on a Saturday) and hit the road to drive down to Marlborough, Massachusetts to attend a woodworking show I had found online a few weeks ago. We made the 86 miles drive in bright sunshine and good spirits, arriving at our destination 10 minutes before the show was scheduled to start that day (the website advertising a 3 day event, Fri - Sun).



Imagine our surprise to show up and find an empty ... nay, a…
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Added by Kerry Drake on February 22, 2010 at 11:40am — 4 Comments

Life's a Birch ... with a Cherry top.

Monday my beautiful wife and I went to Goose Bay Lumber to pick out lumber for the top of the built in. I wanted something a little thicker than you find at a big box store, so we were looking for 6/4 material (that's 1 1/2" thick to you lay folk).



We ended up with 3 nice pieces of Cherry all 10 feet long, 2 pieces about 7 inches wide and one 4" (25 board feet). Here is it stacked up on the work… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on February 16, 2010 at 4:32pm — 2 Comments

Putting up a Fasle Front can be a good thing....

I'm real sore today, but that should be expected as I spent almost 4 hours on my knees yesterday (no, get your mind out of the gutter). I finally got all the drawer fronts finished with a final coat of stain and poly and it was time to install them.



For those who may have forgotten, this is what we started with way back when:…

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Added by Kerry Drake on February 8, 2010 at 3:06pm — 8 Comments

A tale of two Kitchens

WARNING**** No where in this project did I use any kind of KREG product.



One Kitchen is a soothing, well laid out, modern, cullinary workshop, and the other kitchen is the one we actually have.



Step one in the transformation happened this weekend.





BEFORE:









AFTER:…





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Added by Kerry Drake on February 1, 2010 at 11:29am — 3 Comments

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