Amateur DIY woodworking in India

Few small projects using scraps Just thought of putting up all my small projects till date on a single page.  These projects made effective use of scraps lying around in my shop.  Almost all of them do not have detailed step by step photos - just the end results. 1. Coaster Had some 12 mm ply, beading and broken laminates. An hour later this coaster came out. Beading stained with walnut color stain from Asian Paints. 2. Medicine Box Started as a bare-bones plywood box using 12 and 19 mm ply, then found some unused odd sized laminates left on the floor, so used them too.  Then my wife suggested that we use this as a Homeopathy medicine box. So found some 6 mm ply and used a spade bit on my drill press to put 16mm holes in the same. Finally propped the 6 mm piece on 2 sides by using 2 smaller 6 mm pieces. 3. Storage space door We have quite a few open storage spaces in our dining room. One of them has som...

Everything changed when the cat nation attacked We were a happy family, enjoying lunch and dinner happily at our dining table, while sitting on wooden chairs with cushions. But everything changed when the cat nation attacked. They showed us no mercy, and claimed every last one of the cushions for themselves. Defeated, and licking our wounds, I decided to give the dining chairs a makeover - one that would eliminate the need of cushions. The base plywood on each chair sat on a rabbet that is around 3/4 inch deep from flush, intended to hold the cushions in place. I planned to bring up the plywood to sit flush with the edges, and then finish with a nice laminate on top. After taking measurements and some dry fitting, found out that 19mm ply strips make the base ply sit flush with the edges.  So cut some 19 mm ply from a larger piece that I had. The rabbet was 13mm wide, so the strips had to be 13mm wide too. Also, the front side of the chair tapers to the back - ...

Clothing organization 101 - Bedroom Dresser During my twenties, I was an impulsive shopper for clothes, and by that process, have gathered a huge cache of t shirts/polos/trousers/jeans etc which took up most if not all the space in my closet. It was hard for me to organize my hosiery, socks and other sundry items in the same closet. Now the closet that I use is a old wooden one that was passed down to me by my father, who in turn got his from his parents. It is made of solid Burma teak and is irreplaceable at this moment. So I decided to build a dresser inspired from one of Mathias Wandel's numerous dresser designs (with significant deviations and mistakes along the way), which shall be placed beside my wife's larger closet in our bedroom. Used sal (shorea robusta) wood and ply (6 mm for sides, 12 mm for drawers, 12 mm for top). Started off by building the drawer boxes first (which was the first of my many mistakes, as I should have built the drawers after I built...