A couple of months ago when I started this project, I weighed the pile of rough boards that I thought I needed to make the nightstand, with...

With the drawer hung and the top and shelf mounted, this thing is done!  Big thanks go to Darrell Peart for such a beautiful design.  These...

At last! Today was glue-up day. I started by gluing together the right and left sides as separate assemblies, but somehow failed to get an...

I applied stain (actually water-based dye) to all the parts last night, and the first few coats of wipe-on polyurethane today. More of the ...

I think today I must have set a new personal record for the most time spent per board foot of lumber processed. That's because I was fin...

Today I finished up the rest of the ebony doodads on the top, then started on the plugs that go on the legs and the front of the drawer. Mak...

Hooray! The ebony finally arrived yesterday, and I had some time over the weekend to jump in and make the decorative splines for the nightst...

Still no ebony. But today the shipment finally showed up in the USPS tracking system, so there's hope. I guess the eBay seller I bought ...

Still no ebony. When it finally shows up, I figure I'll want to make the biggest ebony pieces first. That way, if I mess them up, I ma...

Still no ebony. But the drawer is almost done. About a year ago, Garrett Hack had an article in Fine Woodworking #213 about using solid...

Oops. Yesterday I grabbed the shelf panel that I had carefully flattened a few days ago, and found that it had suddenly developed a really ...

I originally thought that I would apply the finish to the main part of the nightstand, assemble it, and then build the drawer to fit. But I ...

With the shelf and top panels all glued up and flat, I figured I'd better take care of a number of pesky details that I had been neglect...

I guess I've always used sheet goods in the past when I needed a wide board, because other than the tongue and groove panels for these r...

Here's a shot of another dry fit, after routing the arches on the bottoms of the aprons, rounding over all the exposed edges, and lots o...

Oops. I managed to start the bandsaw cut on the wrong side of the line as I was preparing to rout the curve on the bottom of one of the apr...

I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's better to think of the router as a trimming tool than as a machine for hogging away l...

For the tenons on the aprons and the stretchers, I started by defining the shoulders using a regular blade on the table saw. I considered us...

You might think that "but first" has something to do with birthin' babies .  But that's spelled differently.  What we'...

The order of construction given in Darrell's article made sense to me, so I started by using one of the jigs I had made earlier to mak...