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I sat on the porch carving this little guy, and I was really pleased with the way it turned out. It took a long while to carve the wrapping design. The whole thing was carved with a bucknife.

I only had time to do one bench while I was home from work. I'll do the next one and try to get the end chairs done when I'm home next time.

All she wanted was a counter-top shelf to save space. A simple trestle would have worked fine. But Nooooo, I had to make it complicated and way beyond my neophyte abilities. Then, half-way through, the wet monsoon started, and the jump in humidity played havoc on the joints. As hand-tool...

Sofa/Hall Table Australian Blackwood: Tapered legs, mitred lap joints, wedged through tenons (Ebony), butterflies. Finish - Kunos Natural Oil.

This is a wearable wooden ring made up of layers of Canary, Maple, and Walnut. The wood was joined such that the grain orientation of each layer compliments the neighboring layer in terms of strength. The ring was cut out, hand-shaped (no lathe involved), and sanded using increasingly finer...