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For those keeping track, I did finish the coffee table before starting the rebuild on Aspettami the 1982 Bayfield 25 sailboat. The coffee table is, as always Cypress and mahogany with white oak framesa and copper rivets. It sits on a large Bois d'arc root that I picked up off the shorline of...

I get a lot of mud cured green Osage and never knew what to do with the pieces too small for duck call blanks. Well finally I decided to carve a few to see what they looked like. Wow. This stuff looks amazing when all sanded up. Now I save every root big enough to make a cane. My friend does the...

I made this 8'x6"x2" cedar box for a donation item for a Local university's Christmas event for children. The theme this year is "The Grinch" . Woods used are: bubinga, poplar, bois d'arc, basswood, and cedar. Image is inlaid into the hinged lid using the "double bevel inlay " method with a...

This is an all wood Trapper style pocket knife….except for the brass pins. These are fun to make. They are a challenge because of all the minor adjustments that are necessary for it to function just like a real knife. I make mine as close to actual size as possible so I use the very hard...

Here's a trio of tealight holders made from hedge (aka bois d'arc or osage orange). Probably not the best choice of wood when drilling endgrain with a forstner! If you've ever worked with it, you know that the fresh cut surface is bright yellow. I lightly oxidized it with a propane torch to...

This was made for Lumberjocks Plane swap that just finished up. After going through about 5 other ideas, including some prototypes, I finally settled on making a cabinet scraper. I found this plan in ShopNotes Issue No. 133 (January 2014) and followed their plans pretty closely including their...

The seat of this stool was a study in capturing grain direction. I wanted a tall back and deep seat with an almost saddle effect. My goal was to select a forked log of black walnut so that I could capture continuous long grain fibers from front to back. The back (or cantle) veers into the...

The initial picture is of the nine flags that have flown over the city of Nacogdoches, Texas (pronounced Naa-Caw-Dough-Chez), the oldest town in Texas. The picture shows the frontal plate of the Display Case which my club recently designed, fabricated, and assembled in the Convention and...

This is a ring of bois d'Arc (Osage, hedge, et al) I made for myself a couple weeks ago. I have a metal wedding band but it's never fit that well. I honestly think this is more attractive too. The color has already darkened quite a bit… It just keeps getting better looking! I've made a couple...

I popped into LJ a very few weeks ago. I saw some amazing projects and am still going through the archives, when I have time…there seems to be a new one everyday. And I do visit every day, just to see what is new. I now have a list as long as my arm of things I just have to build I have seen...

This object is approximately 8" in diameter and 7" high. I actually turned it last fall (it was the inspiration for this project http://lumberjocks.com/projects/24407), but my Brother-in-Law just graduated from pharmacy school, so it's been tucked behind the workbench since then. It was bright...