Redwood 2020
44”x14”x10 3/4”
This is an 14' Redwood 2x12 Josh Miller and I pulled off the side of a house many years ago when we were babies building decks. We cut it in half, laid it across sawhorses and it held our tools and saw, gatorades and high lifes for the summer.
I kept it with me through half a dozen different shops, set up beside my bench, where I’d stack pieces of whatever I was working on. And in the summers, when I needed money and the outdoors I’d strap it to the roof of the Forester and go build fences and pergolas and stuff.
I don’t do much of that anymore so last December I milled it down and built this cabinet.
The nice thing about working at this scale is using up the scraps you’ve accumulated. The drawer sides are Spanish Cedar, offcuts from a set of garage doors my friend and mentor Scott Beatie made. The drawer bottoms are Alaskan Cedar, leftover from a trying 18 month stint building pipe organs. And the web frames are soft maple, from a simple but meaningful project I helped a friend with a couple years ago.
Big thanks to my dear friend Terry Ratzlaff for helping me with photographs
