Category: Frog Blog

17 Oct 2025 Jewelry and Gentleman’s Boxes

17 Oct 2025 Jewelry and Gentleman’s Boxes

About 10 days ago, I started building two boxes. One is cherry with a maple and purple heart inlay, and the other is walnut with rosewood and walnut inlay (meant to be more subtle). The details on these projects are as perfect as I could make them. The level of precision on projects so small […]

Wooden Gifts by Froggy

Wooden Gifts by Froggy

I’ve been building wooden gift items for several years now, when I’m not working on a commission. Additionally, the excessive cost of wood due to COVID has caused me to limit large wood purchases, so instead of large furniture projects, I’ve created more gift items. I really enjoy the small projects, and I actually have […]

Butcher Block Table

Butcher Block Table

Maple & Walnut I just finished this rustic Butcher Block Kitchen Island with a built-in chessboard. It was a custom build designed and constructed to my customer’s exact specifications. It was sized specifically for my customer’s kitchen space and designed to be a fully functional butcher block cutting surface. It was glued up with 2” stripes […]

Tea Box

Tea Box

I spent this past weekend working on yet another project for the cabin. It was small in comparison to most of the cabin projects, approximately 16″ x 12″ x 5″. It’s a little tea storage box made from some leftover materials. There are a few flaws in the walnut case because I didn’t have enough […]

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