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Just a simple Base Cabinet made with 4 large drawers. My wife wanted drawers instead of cabinet doors with shelves. So it just a basic unit. ready for hardware and paint. Finished it off yesterday. Since I had a weekend with no other honey do's required lol.. I use the top off another cabinet...

love the game .. thank dear friend Dan Wiggins on the photograph you sent me, on the basis of which I did my marquetry work

I acquired some Box Elder wood and have been playing with it. Some is more colorful than other pieces, but it is a fun wood wo work with. Both these bowls are about 5" in diameter. The first is finished with Danish oil and wax, the second, shallower dish is finished with wax only. If anyone...

Bowl 1 Tasmanian Blackwood 2 Camphour Laurel 3 Tasmanian Jarrah Started putting rings on when I found out that the experienced guys at the local Wood Turning Club hadn't done them.

Here is my latest project - A scale model of the famous Canadian schooner Bluenose. Its the same ship as on a Canadian 10 cent coin. Made to scale with no plans or help, just a lot of google to find sizes etc. Made almost totally from scrap wood and other things around the house. The hull is...

Another "rescue wood" project … a friend asked if I had any use for an old cutting board she was about to throw out. It was a nice, large, thick, end-grain maple block. So with a respectful hat-tip to its early life as one of Canada's National trees, along with a little slicing & dicing … and a...

This is an oak paperweight I made a while back. I just liked the coin with an elk or buck deer on it, so I counter sunk it into a nice piece of oak I had laying about just waiting to be made into something.

This sculpted rocking chair is built from 2'' quarter-sawn Brazilian Lacewood and Canadian Black Walnut accented with Ebony plugs. For this chair we laminated walnut to the top and underside of the solid lacewood seat. When hand craved on the top the lacewood gets exposed to reveal it's...

I was asked last year to make a '''flag '' cutting/serving board. This was to be a gift to some sensible people who winter in Mexico, to remind them of Home. I wanted to keep all the material from Canada, so after some searching I was able to find some Maple that had a great red coulor to it. So...

I made this lamp for my wife. The plans were on the Internet, Materials used: pine, rice paper, lamp kit.

h-8.5",hand made,old basswood,(26.03.2012)

This is a coffee table I designed to replace our very worn out old one. With three young kids in the house it had to be very strong and stable, but also attractive. For a finish I used Sam Maloofs recipe. I'll see how it stands up to three active kids.

I had a contractor that wanted a 7" x 7"carved frog for the top of a newel post. My first question was what kind of wood, hickory, and then how will it be attached? Ouch, hickory! I have never carved hickory but I had a pretty good idea that this was going to be a challenge. A challenge wasn't...

Constructed of Ash, Wenge, and Halyard Rope, the Halyard Bench is one of my latest designs that was submitted for a design competition in Hokkaido, Japan. I built this bench over the course of 4 weeks, and shipped it off to Japan where it was exhibited for several months. There were some...

This is a Grey Jay, also called a Whisky Jack. It is 12 inches from beak to tail, basswood and acrylic paints. Carved for a Canadian… Claude