"Uh...Tom, if you didn't use at least 5 to 10 power tools in making that dresser, well, ya know know, it ain't much of a conquest." he says adjusting his toolbelt and gunning his Makita 1/2 inch pistol grip electric drill.

i can't see the picture but that's the dresser I have and I had fun putting it together too.

this link should work (but not actually be worth following).

And yes, despite being an unimpressive feat, this is the closest to being a lumberjack that my detestable yuppie lifestyle allows. I put it together using tools I bought for $4 at Microcenter!

and Naomi, allow me to compliment you on your excellent taste (did you have a girlfriend tell you which one to buy, too?).

"...using tools I bought for $4 at Microcenter"

Computer geeks!

oh nope...I have the taller one, but now that I see that one, I want to trade. :)

You're kind of a computer geek, right? You could build jwz's steel-pipe bookcase.

Or a tensegrity anything.

Sadly, my books are only made out of paper. So the whole steel pipe thing might be overkill.

I notice that he used glass for the shelves. Doesn't that kind of defeat the point?

Can you make tensegrity furniture? Assuming you want to furnish your house with something other than domes, I mean.

Yes. Maybe the Wayback Machine has the pictures. This guy's bookcase is nuts: whereas normally you'd have straight pipes and helical/diagonal wire, he twisted the pipes, too.

I have a bookcase currently held together solely by (1) inaccuracies in where I drilled the holes in the wood and (2) vertical tension from pipe caps and floor flanges at either end. Some diagonal aircraft wire and you may as well call it tensegrity.