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Hi, the town of Mundelein Illinois, a Chicago suburb in central Lake County started a tool library in 2021. The village donated a former public works facility for our use. A tool library is similar to book library. We have tools and any resident in the county can check out a tool for use and...

Matt Cremona sent me a slab of wood. I made some live edge slabs out of it. The online woodworking community is incredible Watch the Cremona Slab Video here

My first raised panel cabinet is done. Slideshow follows. It should download and open on it's own and then click it to move from one side to another. Many thanks to all LJ's who answered my many questions even after I made a nuisance of myself. Slideshow of making the raised panel cabinet

Offcuts Cheeseboard prize for the Boys&Girls Club competition day. My wife is the head gymnastics coach who is organizing the club competition, so as a fund raiser, my stash of wooden toys was raided plus a requested "Cheeseboard".. Just goes to show, no scrap timber in my shed, just offcuts...

More fund raising fun with a Wooden Toy Tip Truck full of lollies. Yes another "GUESSING COMPETITION" for the local Boys & Girls Club. You guess the correct number of lollies [candy] in the back of the truck and you win both the truck and the lollies [the funds being put towards new equipment]...

Reindeer and Sleigh YES, Christmas is fast approaching and it was time to change gears from wheels. I'd made these a few years ago and they were a hit for Fund Raising for the local community club plus a couple of gifts so as I had the template, I thought another 3 was the go. I cheated a bit...

Fund Raiser Round Camphor Laurel Cheeseboard for the local community club. My wife asked if I could make a round cheeseboard for the mid-year Boys & Girls Club fund raiser raffle. Round wasn't something I was comfortable with but Papa Smurf and Handy Smurf encouraged me to have a go! I found...

This is a challenge that is going out to all woodworkers. We are currently creating fabulous wooden yard flowers to be placed in the nursing home patio areas, so that seniors can have something beautiful to look at that will help brighten their day. These flowers have also been placed in our...

Peterbilt Pantech Truck scratch built which was to be a prize for the local Boys and Girls Club "Guessing Competition" but the pan on the back has proved way too big to stuff with lollies/candy. Yes it's 12" long x 8" wide x 6" high and that's be the end of end fund raising filling that space...

If I had a hammer, well 50plus of them for Kindygym was the request. Yes, my beautiful wife requested 50plus little wooden toy hammers for Construction Day at Kindygym Each hammer is 1 3/8" (35mm) square with a 5" (127mm) handle. The hammer head is recycled Radiata Pine while the handles used...

HotRod Ford 8×8 ATV We as I said I'd do I've built a different vehicle for the local Boys & Girls Girl "Guessing Competition". This one is a lot smaller to fill with lollies/candy for the Guessing Competition. It's scratch built off of drawing I found on the computer at an ARGO. I...

Easter Fund raiser for the local Boys&Girls Club. A C-Cab Ford of course. As in years past I've made a Farm Truck for the local community club. The back has been filled with chocolate Easter Eggs and if you can guess the correct number, both the Farm Truck & the Easter Eggs are yours. I...

This is a project that I got involved with that is really something for the community to be proud of. Our resident deputy sherrif, Brannon Slice was challenged by his boss to do something nice for the community. Brannon responded by raising money from local businesses and also recruiting local...

Years ago I had a job where the dress code required a necktie, and I ended up with a large collection of them. I built this tie rack to fit in the back of the closet. The job and the dress code have long since changed and now all the ties are in storage (YAY!). Now it's in a new spot and it...

i saw a cremation box i thought i could make trying to do box joints…no reason other than i liked the shape. my wife sees it during dry fitting it and says,so,are you making me a box?(insert your own joke here). so with a small modification,she now has a box,then i made some more for...