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John Builds Himself a Desk

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It’s been a while since I posted about one of my husband John’s woodworking projects.

I set up a website/blog for him for his Mighty Moe Creations – but I never got the posts from my tierneycreates blog on his woodworking transferred over so it is not really a functioning blog yet.

So for now I will continue to share his crafts on my blog 🙂

John was tired of his desk which he bought used like 15 years ago from a neighbor:

He wanted a smaller profile “Mission” style desk and found images like this one on line to inspire him:

With no formal project plans or any instructions, John figured out how to build himself a desk. First he had to learn a new skill – using little dowels for joining the railing on the side pieces of his desk:

He was pretty proud of himself for making it through that which was the most challenging part of the build.

From there he went on to build the rest of the desk:

Then stain and polyurethane it:

And finally to add era/style specific handles to the drawers that he had to special order:

Here is John very happy at his new desk!

Now he plans to build a coordinating station for his printer with an attached 2-drawer file cabinet.

(In case you are wondering what the sign behind John in his bar “Pog Mo Thoin” means, it is Gaelic for “Kiss My Arse” – we picked it up in 2022 while in Ireland. John’s nickname is “Moe” and so he got a kick out of the sign!)

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