Custom Furniture and Cabinetry in Boise, Idaho by J. Alexander Fine Woodworking

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather With the cabinet, doors, and drawers fully constructed, we were on to assembling the entire unit.  The client did not want to have any visible hinges, so we used Euro hinges for all the doors. The Euro hinges were a bit unique because the four outside hinges mounted onto [...]

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather Before we look at the cabinet, which was the first part of the project to be constructed, let us turn our attention to the doors. We had six doors and two side panels that were all similarly constructed. 1. We began by building a simple shaker rail and stile [...]

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather We recently had a brand new interior designer approach us with a very cool project!  The project is a media cabinet, designed to hold the clients TV on the top, the various components behind the three sets of doors, two central drawers, and eight open laptop slide out trays. [...]

Honu Bench – Stained Alder We recently had a client who wanted a customized bench for his master bedroom.  The client was born and raised in Hawaii and had an attachment to the Hawaiian hieroglyphic of the sea turtle, otherwise known as “honu”.  He wanted a bench that was stout and sturdy, with angular lines, [...]

2010 Chair Affair Furniture Competition Entry Every year the Interior Designers of Idaho put on a furniture competition called the Chair Affair.  Any type of furniture is fair game, not just chairs. So, I used this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. My wife had been asking me to build a buffet for [...]

Solid African Mahogany Coffee, End, & Hall Tables With all three tables glued up and sanded, it was time to move to the finishing room.  The tables are going to be stained to match some existing woodwork in the clients office. In order to achieve the color necessary we are going to need to apply [...]

Painted and Glazed Curved Dresser with a Stained Alder Top We began the finishing process by priming the dresser and the four boxes.  They were then sanded and painted with a nice white paint.  We chose to use a vinyl base coat paint, which would allow us to apply a clear lacquer over the top [...]

Painted and Glazed Curved Dresser with a Stained Alder Top With the carcass of the dresser completed, it was time to focus our energies on the curved drawers.  We began by gluing up three layers of 1/4″ MDF, which would form the 3/4″ drawer fronts, to a jig we made.  The bend on the jig [...]

I wanted a work table that looked like it was from the same family of furniture as the tables found in Apple retail stores: minimalistic, sturdy, modern, maple grained pieces that have become synonymous with Apple stores. They provide a place for customers to touch and use apple products, from laptops to iPods, and give [...]

Solid African Mahogany Coffee, End, & Hall Tables All the legs and stringers were glued up for the end table and the coffee table, so we turned to the behemoth that is the hall table.  As you can see, we routed a continuous spline along the vertical joint.  It was not really necessary to have [...]