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It has been awhile since my last project. Needless to say I am getting wood worker fever - if there is such a thing? So, to get back in the mix I decided it was time to tackle a new project. This year we decided that we are going to raise chickens for eggs and poultry. So, I decided to build...

This is my first Chicken Note Stand for my Brother & his wife this Christmas 2021. I found a case of adding machine paper rolls. I wanted to do something with them. I finally got an idea. I have made many types of bear note paper roll holders. Each is a different bear. Panda, Polar, Brown ...

I had been looking at pictures of chicken crates that were made as late as the 50s, but couldn't quite figure out how the loading door worked. I was lucky enough to see some at the Frederick County Fair in Virginia. A chicken fancier was loading his birds into the show and he had some of these...

This display is for a friend's birthday. It is made out of red oak, and the backing is MDF. It was a lot of fun making the lighting circuit with a friend who knows how to do that kind of stuff. I'm a mechanic and haven't messed with soldering irons! The back emblem is the Navy Seal symbol...

So I built this quilt rack out of 8/4 alder. It was based off of the quilt ladder idea but I added a base so it could stand on its own. Its 48" tall and has 26" clear width for quilts. The rungs have wedged tenon joinery that locks the whole thing together. I stained it a dark mahogany and left...

Once the sawhorses were done we had an immediate need for a hutch for our hatchlings. The one class of hatchlings in the file room became three while waiting for the tools to arrive - and chickens are not indoor pets. The place was really starting to stink. I went to Backyard Chickens and found...

I saw this neat cam driven hand-cranked automaton on a Youtube video by Al Conquergood. This thing was so cool, I had to make one for myself. My biggest challenge was how to make the 4 hens. Al hand-carved his chickens. I am not a hand-carver. For my chickens, I borrowed a technique from...

pecking chickens, made from fir. The heads go up and down when you swing the egg, making the chickens peck at the seeds. The hinges are toothpicks, the egg is turned. The seeds are quinoa.