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a bowl for presenting almonds (or peanuts, walnuts etc.) made out of almond wood and legs of solid steel

Svord is a New Zealand knife maker and their new Peasant Knife is a simple and beautiful thing but comes with a plastic handle in its cheapest form. I wanted the wood version but didn't want to pay extra for someone else to have the fun to make the handle ( actually they cheat and their handles...

My son graduates soon as a US Customs agent and I prepared this plaque for him.

I've finally finished my first furniture project. It's a side table I've built for my wife for our five year anniversary. She seemed happy, so I am too. I've learned a lot in this process- especially how to hide mistakes. There are a few gaps in the joints, but so far no one has noticed. The...

This is my entry for "A Knot Like No Other". It is made from a piece of figured almond that had a large elongated knot smack in the center of the board and it angled down in the piece of wood so that if I wanted to make the handle and shaft of one solid piece, the handle was not going to lay at...

latest carving I just finished for my sister in law, she asked me to make something that can go on her wall to be used as a door bumper since there was already a hole in the wall where the doorknob was hitting. Since my sister in law owns a few snakes and I believe still breeds them (if not she...

Another growth chart done for a friend, she wanted something farm/country themed so I picked up a nice aromatic cedar board. I decided I would try an intarsia, since it was my first try I searched high and low until I found one I wanted to try, I borrowed a image from Linda Couture (give credit...

This is a Celtic love spoon I made for my sister in law out of a piece of almond wood for Christmas. She has a dragonfly collection so I scoured google images until I found a image I liked, marched out to the firewood pile, grabbed a piece of firewood and got started. Added a "J" for Jamie...

This e-Smoke Docking station was build out of rough lumber that I got from a friends garden. The almond tree was cut vertical while still standing. As a thank you, I made this item out of one piece of it. It was natural dried for a year. of course there's a "making off" video:

I had this box full of drum-kit parts in the attic for years, it was never opened after our move to Portugal. Time for some recycling or better up-cycling! An off-cut piece of almond slap was used to make the top of this occasional table. Reclaimed pine and oak was used for the drawer. Drum-kit...