Woodworking: Building the Cherry Desk 

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Thank you Brigette! It was truly a labor of love. I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to leave such a nice comment. Thanks again!

Thank you my friend. I enjoyed making this. I just watched your desk video. It turned out very beautiful as well. Thank you for watching mine and commenting.

@@thetennesseetinkerer You're welcome. see you anytime. Thank you. Big greetings.

Wow thank you so much for all the kind words! I’m so happy you enjoyed this and found it useful! As far as ripping the top with the table saw, I do this because my band saw is old and not powerful or accurate enough to resaw thick boards. The table saw in the video was my old contractor saw that has since been replaced with a larger cabinet saw, but it gave me 20 years of excellent use. By first ripping the wide boards down to narrower ones, it allowed me to resaw them using the table saw. Plus as I said in the video, it also made the widths uniform and made the top more stable. That top was thicker than 3/4”. Probably closer to 1-1/4” but it’s been so long I don’t remember exactly. As far as the skirt spacer, I’m always looking for easy and accurate ways to get the job done. I’ve used both wood slides and metal slides on drawers in the past, but for this I thought metal was most functional. Anyway, thank you again for watching and taking the time to comment. It means so much.

Thank you Paul! It was truly a labor of love for my woodworking hero. I really appreciate your kind words.

Awesome! I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you Kevin. It was a special project for me. Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you Larry! It was a fun one to build and it meant a lot to be able to give it to my woodworking mentor. Thanks for leaving a comment and watching! I can always count on you to leave me kind words. It is greatly appreciated.

Ronny, I am not familiar with Jeffries, but the next time we are in town for a UT game or passing through going to the mountains, we will have to stop. Thanks for the comment and the kind words. It's good to be posting videos after a few months. I have several filmed and edited, so you should be seeing more coming out in the near future. Thank you for watching!

@@thetennesseetinkerer They have a good web page and if you want to check on what they have the best thing to do is IM them on Facebook. Not open Sun or Mon. Well laid out and they encourage just going through and looking!

Honestly, I don't know. I was waiting on help from a metal fabricator friend of mine, and that has never panned out. Eventually I will resume it. Thanks for the question and for watching.

I assume you meant to say mortise and TENONS, not tenants. Regardless, I’m confident my desk will outlast us both, even though it is assembled with the dreaded pocket screw. Thanks for watching and being disappointed in me!

@@thetennesseetinkerer good, you can spell. Hopefully you can read as well. Plenty of examples on the proper mortise & tenon joints

Mark, I watch plenty of videos with mortise and tenon joints, but I’m not sure what that has to do with anything. I could have done that joint, and I know how to do that joint, but for various reasons I chose not to. I still will never understand someone’s need to take the time and post negative comments on a video. I understand if you would have done it differently, but to take time out of your day to specifically point that out in a negative way is confounding to me. I make videos to share with people because it brings me joy. I hope to spread that joy to others in sharing them, and I hope that you can appreciate that. Thank you for watching regardless.

@@thetennesseetinkerer look at as constructive criticism. It wasn't meant to be negative and I apologize if you took it that way. I really liked the table and was into watching the video until you whipped out the pocket screws. Again sorry if it upset you.