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This year's spring swap was wide open, build whatever you wanted. My recipient was clieb91. I've wanted to build a vintage radio, art deco, or maybe a tombstone variety. Pictures abound of some amazing examples. About the same time that the swap was getting started I saw an ad from Rockler...

I have had one of these for a little while and love using it, so for this surprise swap I decided to make one with some improvements for John McClure! Mine is 12" tall which can be a bit much depending on the task at hand so I made this one 6" and it can always be clamped to a spacer if desired...

The spring swap this year was a surprise swap, so we could make anything we wanted. Since my shop was being built, and would not be complete until reveal week on the swap, I spend a while thinking about what I was going to build for the swap. I decided I'd make a skew rabbet plane. I have an old...

This was a spokeshave I made as a bonus for the 2020 surprise swap. I started with a Hock Tools blade, and these instructions for making a spokeshave. Plus a piece of ipe I had on hand. It went to Brian Johns, and I hope he's happy with it!

Thanks to GR8HUNTER heading up the band Surprise Swap 2020 has come to an amazing conclusion. The stuff that was received by all looks great and seems to be a huge hit. I had the pleasure of sending my stuff off to a Bill Berklich. A big thanks to him for posting nice reveal pics as well since...

The 2020 Surprise Swap was amazing - some true works of art came out of it. This one feels a little light weight, and if I participate again I'll need to up my game. My contributions went to George (Woodmaster1), a master craftsman with an incredible gallery of projects. I made a jewelry box...

For the Surprise Swap of 2020, I had the distinct pleasure of drawing the leader of the swap, my friend Tony aka GR8Hunter. Tony got my name in my first ever swap - the Box Swap of 2018 - and he proceeded to show my how a swapper should act! He blew me away with his generosity so I knew that if...

I just finished up the surprise swap. I follow Steve Ramsey on youtube and he just open a weekend workshop course I purchased. I decided one of the things I would make is a sandpaper cabinet. I changed up the design a little bit but not much. It is made of about 1/2 sheet of 3/4" ply. The...

Had some fun making squares. I'm not real artsy like a lot of guys here so straight lines work for me. I stumbled across several squares and variations and I've been wanting to try some precision work. The two wooden squares are interpretations of 16th century Melencolia (Honduran Rosewood &...