Backyard Birds cabinet on display outside Philadelphia

Coming soon to the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine

Images of the finished cabinet

Glamour Shots Day

Putting the finishing touches on a cabinet

Putting the first coat of tung oil on a cabinet

Making a cap for the top of the cabinet

Adding an opening mechanism and other hardware to a cabinet door

Hinging and fitting an irregularly-shaped cabinet door

Making ebony drawer handles

Making a drawer bottom with trompe-l'œile birdseed encased in epoxy

Making a drawer with dovetail joints

Making a patch for a missing marquetry shadow

Gluing up a cabinet in five stages

Making biscuit joints

Making a decorative wooden grill

Making cabinet legs

Using bookmatched burl veneer to make the side of a cabinet

Soldering a piece of custom hardware to open a cabinet door

Making a trompe-l'œil windowsill to go around a cabinet door