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A blast from the (recent) past. Back in 2000/01, when I was out of work and thought there might be a bit of money to be made in it, I made this writing slope. Under the Rosewood and Bird's Eye Maple veneer beats a heart of solid MDF (its an excellent veneer substrate, being flat and stable). The...

I have to admit, this project was inspired by Roger's beautiful Hand Mirrors. But I had always wanted to make one and I thought it would be the perfect gift for my Tattoo Artist. Next week he will be expanding on a tattoo he gave me earlier this year. My tattoo will be a complete half-back...

About 5 years we built a hope chest for our daughter. We used three species of wood. Maple, cedar and walnut. We used 3 types maple. Curly maple, Birdseye maple and quilted maple. I designed it as frame and panel construction with maple stiles and rails and cedar panels. For the top I joined...

First of a big Thank You for all the replys on my last post ! This clamping system has been on my mind for some time and yesterday I set out to put it into reality as I started a box and thought I put and end to the frustation of clamping a box and still get the odd box that is out of square...

A simple coffee table. The top is made out of solid birds eye maple. The bottom tier is made out of solid maple. The shape was a chalenge for me. Having no straight lines was new to me. In the end I cut it with a jig saw just shy of my line and then sanded and sanded and sanded until I got...

This is one I made at the turn of the millenium. The sides are solid Ebony (hand cut dovetails), the front and back are book-matched Bird's Eye Maple veneered. Brass combination locks and fitments. The inside is leather lined. The handle is an Ebony and Brass sandwich, homemade. Coated in...

My niece is getting married in May and I made her a candle holder. I wanted the center piece to look like it was "floating" between the feet. The first two pictures are of the finished product. The third picture is showing the underside of how the feet are attached. The forth picture is an...

The first box made with the new box clamp I posted recently. http://lumberjocks.com/projects/107614 The box turned out perfectly square and was a breeze to complete , the finish is a new bees wax process I came up with and took about an hour from start to finish and is glass smooth with a satin...

The 1st pic is of a new comfort kit that PSI has. It is a black enamel finish on the hardware. I was looking through my wood stack and figured a light wood would look good with it so I decided I would use Bird's Eye Maple. Sanded to 600 grit , finished with 6 coats of BLO/CA and buffed to 12,000...

This is an OOOOOOOOOOld project. I used to build digital clocks in 1970 ( before they were on the market) and I made steel cases for them when I worked in the tool room. I found 3 of these completed kits from Optoelectronics in a box in my office and decided to finish them. One of them...

These are the Slimline's that I have done this last week. The 1st pen gun metal hardware with a Cedar blank. I love the smell when you turn Cedar, the wife says the shop smells like a hampster bedding but I love the smell. The 2nd one is satin chrome hardware with a white w/ black swirl...

Aeolian harps are musical instrument played solely by the wind. It plays harmonic frequencies making it's sound mystical and kind of eerie. The harp is made from Birds Eye Maple and Makore. It was sanded down to 320 and four coats of General Clear Coat was applied. Today is a calm day so I...

This is my offering to the few bomb clocks I've seen on here by SgtSnafu and VillageWood. The base is 6" x 10" walnut with a roman ogee router design. The clock face is birds eye maple veneer on a 3 3/8" x 3 3/8" piece of pine. The 2" clock insert from Lee Valley is brass in colour to match the...

Well i have reached a pinnacle point in my woodworking..lol..I made this jewelry box which features a couple of FIRSTS for me… It is joined together with Hand Cut dove tail joinery and also has to bird's eye maple inlays …having never done dovetails much less hand cut, or inlays..i was please...

I finally got around to making a wooden business card holder. I have seen so many different styles out there and came up with this. My wife took one look at it and stole it for herself so I will just have to make the next one even nicer for myself. You can store 26 business cards in it and it...

I had some scrap maple cherry and cedar laying around and decided to make some jewelry…The arrowheads and Superman Pendant are inlayed with Polymer clay which was baked in.

This is a project that I actually started over a year ago and tried to finish for last Christmas but got too busy. I just wanted to make some nice boxes that would also be simple enough so that I could make one for each of the ladies in the family. I finished them (I actually made eight boxes)...

Thanx to all you LJ's who helped me pick a secondary wood to this African Mahogany table. Bird's eye maple was an awesome pick. I owe a lot to David Wade who lives out here in So. Cal O.C who gave me some great tips to take my G&G to a new level. One of the great tips I learned is that no two...

I made this in my Wood Manufacturing/Cabinetmaking course at Holland College. It is made of birds eye maple and curly walnut. The dovetails are cut by hand (boy that was fun lol) it was my first time doing dove tails. The sides are mortise and tennon and the back is held in by dowel joinery. The...

This jewellery box is made of recycled cherry and bird's eye maple. Yes, recycled cherry! I bought a severely damaged piano last year that was made of cherry simply for the wood. I always wanted to make a jewellery from the wood and when a client of mine requested a jewellery box as a gift...