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A bench I made with the Kehoe dovetail spline jig A simple mitered joint using the tapered dovetail splines. The kit comes with a router template and tool for making the perfect splines. (click the blue link to see this amazing product)

The dovetail splines are not only incredibly strong, they add a great accent to any piece. They look like they are literally painted on they are so tight.

The Kehoe jig is designed for strong joinery, but can be used for decoration as well. I took a plain looking piece of lumber and made an accented cutting board.

Notice the inlaid corner detail the Kehoe allows you to router into any piece. This is a 1/4" walnut inlay to frame the board.

A close up photo of a contrasting spline inlaid into a larger one as well as the corner detail from above. This is a photo from only the 3rd time I used The Jig . Professional result are a snap, the uses of this system are only limited by your imagination.

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A custom order patio set. I constructed this from black locust and white oak, 2 naturally decay resistant woods. This set will last for decades	I made this segmented vessel as an experiment. I was curious to see how much patience it took to cut and arrange all those little pieces. Then how much nerve it takes to put it on the lathe and touch it with tools while it is spinning very fast, hoping it doesn't blow up all over the shop. The answer is alot of both, but it turned out.	A custom order bench. Built with white oak and stained a cedar color to match the arbor it will be under.


Here is the only (bad) picture of a custom solid cedar chess set I made before I shipped it to New York. The board is a lid to a box the hand carved pieces fit in. I also made checkers for the set. All the pieces are made from different parts of the tree so you can tell the "teams". I used red heart wood for one side and white/pink sapwood for the other. Each of the 64 squares of the top are hand cut and arranged to make the board.	An interesting contrast of heartwood and sapwood in this little walnut stool.	A closer look at the dove tail spline joinery.


One of many solid cedar chests that I make. The guy who bought this one came back and ordered 2 more for Mother's Day.	A few pens I turned from "scrap" left over from other projects.	I also make handcrafted figured hardwood lures for myself and custom order.


An example of my free form work. A good way to utilize even the oddest pieces of wood.	Honeylocust crotch and walnut.	Not everyone's cup of tee, but I like it. It seemed to work for George Nakashima.


An oak chair my way, out of the ordinary. Made from wood most mills would find as defective. I think it adds character.	Figured and spalted oak back and seat with a 1/4 sawn oak frame.	A closer look at the frame lumber and one of the walnut butterflies that hold the split pieces together.


A bowl I hand carved from an urban logged redbud burl tree. I cut one of the burls off and fashioned this small bowl.	The closer you look the more interesting it is, in my opinion.	Inside and out there is much beauty in this little bowl. To think the whole tree with several hundred pounds of this unique and rare wood was headed to a municipal burn pile ?