David (Vin) Vincent webmaster@binkyswoodworking.com from Massachusetts, USA.
"These oak units are actually designed to be "bookends" with one on each side of a large brick area in the customer's living room. But, they also had to be able to be pushed up to each other, to make one large wall unit. The stain is a mixture of cherry, dark walnut and red oak, to match other pieces in their home.
Four coats of semigloss poly and two coats of Butchers paste wax. Smooth as a baby's butt!"
Details on this
beautiful unit can be found on this page at Vin's site:
http://www.binkyswoodworking.com/BuildingCabinets.php
"I made 2 of these vanities for my granddaughters. The're made from 3/4" birch plywood except for the legs which are pine. The table height is 24" and it's 30" wide. I finished it with an oil based semigloss paint and my wife decorated it with stencils."
Plans for these vanities are available at Vinny's site: http://www.binkyswoodworking.com
"I made this for a local business in town that was looking for a moveable work station. The desktop opens, the back of the column is open for storage, and it's on wheels. It's made from red oak with a semi gloss poly finish. Height is approx 45"."
"This is a china cabinet I designed myself, for my daughters wedding gift. It's made from ash with a Watco finish. Now that I've finished my router table I can try some raised panel doors. The doors on Pam's cabinet are 1/4" ash ply in a solid ash frame. It looks ok but raised panels would have looked nicer.
The cabinet was built in 2 pieces, to make it lighter for transporting, and because my shop has a 74" ceiling. (that's 2 inches clearance for me) The final assembly test and pin connections were done in the garage.
These are a couple
of "in progress" shots. The carcass is 1/2" ply
painted and the face frame, sides, shelves, floor and doors are
solid ash from a local mill. I haven't got my raised panel door
bits yet so I used lap joints on the doors with a 1/4" sheet
of ash ply for the panels. 
The second "in progress" picture shows the upper portion face frame. I used 3/4" ash ply for the backs of the upper half and solid ash for the rest. I tried to get the concave cut in the shelves to reflect the arch on the doors. The finish is Watco oil again, very forgiving stuff. The project looked ok but I think raised panel doors would have finished this off more professionally. Anyway my daughter loves it and that's all that matters."
"These cradles were made for my grandchildren, Arianna and Michael.
The pendulum cradle is made from ash with a clear oil finish. The darker cradle is also ash with Watco walnut flavored oil."
"This horse was made from maple with a clear Watco oil finish. My son John is the rider, at the age of 2."
"This box came from neccesity. I have 3 sizes of Mortise chisels that I use fairly regularly. Till now they were stored in the little cardboard boxes they came home in. My box holds them securly and protects the cutting edge. It's made from 3/4" scrap poplar resawed and milled to 1/4".
The box is 10-3/4" long, 4-7/8" wide and 2-5/8" tall, including the top and bottom. The holes for the chisel supports were drilled to fit each cutter and then split in half and glued into the top and bottom. I also glued felt to the drill end supports, and filled the end voids with some foam pads cut to fit.
The box doesn't need to be fancy, since it will probably never leave the shop, still I finished it with 3 coats of Watco oil. The oil really brings out the grain!"
Here's another example of a box made with Vin's jig. It's a recipe box.
To go to or return to his jig's page, click on the small photo of his jig to the left.
MARBLE MACHINE MADNESS
"I got the plans for this Marble Machine from "Cherry Tree" catalog. It's made of white ash and walnut and finished with "Formbys" high gloss tongue oil.
The tower stands 41" tall and is 20" wide at the base. The marbles pass over many obsticles such as ramps, stairs, spiral funnels, and paddle wheels. The stair "treads" are the keys from a toy xylophone.
It was a fun project, and the grandkids love it, but it was very time consuming!"
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