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  1. Baseball Bookends

    My boys were in desperate need of some bookends. they store their books on top of their dresser and they have accumulated so many that they are just stacking them on each other. I turned the baseball bat on the lathe. The actual holding pieces are pine, 6 inches wide. Vertical piece is 8 inches...
  2. Mission style bookrack

    This Mission style bookrack was featured on the cover of a recent woodworking magazine and I decided it was just the right small project to expirement with some of the finishing techniques I'd been reading about. It's made of red oak (admittedly not as authentiquely Mission as I could have been)...
  3. Maple Book Rack

    I needed a book rack to hold my woodworking books and references. This is the result of that need. Made of plain, hard maple. Finishing was two coats of Charles Neil's Prestain/Blotch Control, followed by TransTint Dark Vintage Maple dye, wiped on. Then several coats of Armor Seal wipe-on...
  4. Quartersawn White Oak Arts and Crafts Tabletop Sliding Bookrack Stickley Reproduction

    About 6 years ago while surfing eBay I stumbled upon a cool bookrack auction. It was a marked Gustav Stickley bookrack. I saved it to my favorites and watched it sell. It closed at $800. Saving the pictures and dimensions from ebay for a later project, I sketched it in Autocad. About 2 months...
  5. Off Topic Coffee Lounge
    Since joining Lumberjocks I have sent emails to other members who said they would be happy to receive emails on topics regarding woodworking or just to start new friendships. What I have found out is that many members just wouldn't bother to reply the mails. This is rather unfortunate but is...
  6. Blogs
    Well on my Way It's been a good spring so far, I took on a project for my local parish church to replace all the old beat-up missal racks behind the pews that have been falling apart after 85 years of use. Over the years, the bottoms were falling out and many of the nice decorative oval head...
  7. Blogs
    Bookrack Project Part 1 I've been working on this bookrack project for the past two months and we finished today. It is for my son's Eagle Scout project. The idea came from a charity resale shop our boy scout troop supports. My son wanted to build something for them so we ask what they...
  8. Hand Tools
    That even said something about "Barn finds" too. Spent a whopping $5 on a decent looking Brace type drill Seems to be in decent enough shape. Got to cleaning it off a bit, found a stamping on the chuck: STANLEY RULE & LEVEL Co. NEW BRITAIN CONN USA Ratchet parts work good. On an arm of...
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