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

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 [...]

Solid African Mahogany Coffee, End, & Hall Tables The next project on the table is a trio of solid African Mahogany tables.  The hall table is 52″ by 17″ and is 32″ tall, the coffee table has a 30″ diameter top and is 18″ tall, while the end table measures 30″ by 26″ and is [...]

Veneered Maple Desk After the final sanding was completed, we applied the same finish to this desk as we do to many of our projects, which was a coat of sanding sealer followed by two coats of a bright rubbed conversion varnish. The resulting finish is rock-hard, very durable, and perfectly smooth. With the sealer [...]

Veneered Maple Desk In this picture, we are looking at one of the legs of the table.  Once the glue on the Maple end caps had dried, we used a flush trim bit and our router to trim away the excess Maple overhang. It was then time to spray on two coats of lacquer to [...]

Veneered Maple Desk We recently had a client from Memphis, Tennessee contact us about designing and building a Maple table.  The client saw the original table in an Apple store, being used as a display table, but he wanted to use the same design and turn it into a desk. The desk is downright massive! [...]