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This is a little Shakerish cherry sewing table. It's solid cherry and being that this photo is a few years old there's quite a color difference between the table as it is now and the photo. It has aged to a beautiful deep red color. The finish is Minwax Tung Oil Finish, which I think is an...

My first marble-machine with a lift! ''More info''

There is a soft spot in every man's heart for his daughter and mine came a week after my 50th birthday, my first and only child. I knew she would have many toys, trinkets and games from me, a woodworker who loved his craft and loved her; so when she came of an age that imaginative play kicked...

Various hardwoods. This clock was an experimental project to understand the clock mechanics and how the various hardwoods work together. Learned a lot and developed many jigs as a result.

Found a small piece of multicolor "plywood" at Woodcraft last week and turned some earrings last weekend. The current plan is to turn a few more variations this weekend.

This jewellery box is made of recycled cherry and bird's eye maple. Yes, recycled cherry! I bought a severely damaged piano last year that was made of cherry simply for the wood. I always wanted to make a jewellery from the wood and when a client of mine requested a jewellery box as a gift...

My neighbor at the lake, picked up some short pieces of cedar left by the loggers, because they only take 100" pieces. I made a few benches out of them, & this is our favorite. I used my Logman Tenon Maker on this Project. Check this link out, because it has a great demo.

Simple paint grade lumber plane till, utilizing yellow poplar, flame birch (Thanks, Dennis Zonker!), maple and Lowe's birch plywood (eww). Constructed with biscuits, pocket screws and Miller mini dowels. The design allows the planes to rest at a 10° angle to the wall, and is held up with a...

Well, I decided to get in on the winter contest action. I know my box making skills aren't up there with a lot of the LJs, so I decided to try something that I hadn't seen posted here yet. I enjoy shooting and I own a variety of different pistols. My "prized" pistol is a Kimber custom gold...

This is My First Whirligig "Zombies Crawling Out Of The Ground Whirligig" I made for a contest entry hosted by A Simple Design of Ocala Inc. and Woodworking for Mere Mortals.

Well the cat is out of the bag! I am building a "Pub Table" from my hard maple stick! It is a type of 'occasional table' but mostly its a high-top table we plan to use in our kitchen! In this part i cut the table top and create the breadboard ends, i have never created a breadboard end before...

The second new joinery technique i am using is biscuits, and because of the rules of this contest i am making my own from the very same hard maple board! In fact i cut strips off the stretcher boards specifically for creating my biscuits! I devised a simple and effective way to create biscuits...

Finally finished my Tractor Model. You saw a similar version posted by LJ's Dutchy last week (he works faster than I do) :). The body is Cherry and the Rear Wheels are Walnut. The design is by Toys & Joys, Inc. It was a fun project. Thanks for looking.

Got all of this oak flooring out of the trash so it's time to put some to use. Mitered joints with walnut splines, or as I like to call them, "table saw boxes". 2 coats of danish oil to finish it off. Boxguy if you read this, I was able to get continuous grain on 3 sides following your advice...

This is my submission for the birdhouse contest. I decided to do something different and miniaturize it. I had been thinking about trying to build a miniature bandsaw box around the same size, and also wanted to build a birdhouse for the contest. The bandsaw box fell by the wayside, but I...

This box is for Alex's 'stash'. It features a removable tray, a poker, scraper and some beautifully knotted recycled fence board. The wood fence that I used, had 9 seasons in the AZ sun and many monsoons that it weathered. Ugly on the outside, but after it was sanded down, showed that it did...

I made these for my grand daughter when she comes over to visit. The blocks are hard maple and the box is fir. I used finger joint on the corners of the box, I am not sure if it will show in the pictures. I did not put a finish on them as she still puts everything in her mouth. Thanks for...

My Daughter, Jen, asked for a playhouse for her daughter's 2nd birthday. Well surprised she will be when we deliver it Thursday, a few months early…. but who cares. The little girl in the play house is my other grand daughter, Chloe. She was over last night testing it out for her cousin...

This idea is a marrying of two other seprate ideas, sound confusing? Well, one day I saw an antique cabinet that was a little bigger than this, but otherwise it worked the same way. The top and bottom base plate are exactly the same design, which means that depending on which way it is...

This is a Joint project with my wife Gloria. She is an excellent quilter and loves or maybe lives to sew. This picture measures 26" x 31" and has taken her many hours to complete it is embroidered on a machine that she has (or maybe I should say that it is one of several machines that she...