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Last week when my wife and I where shopping she saw a couple of wooden mushrooms and liked them. She didn,t buy them. This morning I had some time to turn them on my lathe. I picked up a small trunk from my neighbor, and for the first time I turned fresch wood. It didn,t disappointed me. The...

My wife loves chili papers, now I can justify to her bay new tools.

Hi all. This is my entry for the 2013 Lumberjocks winter awards. I came up with this necklace and earrings idea from a project which I had previously posted in My Projects. In that project, I ended up making 212 pairs of earrings for the family Christmas party this past year. I made several...

My wife took a stained glass class and found another project for me. The gate and fence panels are made of western cedar stained with a sealer stain from one of the box stores. The latch is for a storm door also purchased from the box store. The hardest part was digging the old fence post out...

Its been a while since I have made a box. This box is made of Mahogonay and Wenge. I picked the Mahogany from my regular hardwood dealer, someone had brought it back for some reason and he gave it to me for a $1. The Wenge on the other hand he charged me quite a bit for so I guess it all evened...

So its a side simple, made from pine and white washed with acylic paint. Same design as one of my ofther side tables but cutting it down to its simplest form. Like a basic Google sketchup drawing. The hoop is made up of four parts, two long parts halving jointed on legs and ends doweled.

This is a very common design for a top but I tarted it up a little. Screws decorate the perimeter for a bit of flash and drilled holes make it whistle. The wood is bubinga with a maple axle. It was easy to come in on time with the one day build budget (Lumberjock's Scrappy 01 contest) so I set...

I'd been wanting a garden bench for a while…so when the contest was announced there was no turning back. A month goes by very quickly in the summer but here it is. I have to hit the road tomorrow but managed to get a few pitures before the light faded too much. It made this out of ash (yes it's...

Build Instructions and additional pictures: http://www.instructables.com/id/Rustic-Pumpkin-Lantern/ This triangular pumpkin lantern could be a nice addition to your Halloween décor. To give the lantern an aged timeworn look, the rustic finish uses multiple layers of paint, rough sanding and...

This box was a commissioned piece for a friend at work who needed something to put her sewing cutters and scissors in. I surprised her with the pin cushion which I made from a scrap. It is made with Lacewood and Purple heart splines to reinforce the joints.

Well my couch was about 12 years old and very worn. Time to replace it, Been shopping for a leather recliner for several months. Looked at several Cincinnati furniture stores and found nothing in the style I wanted nor anything I felt was a good buy for the money. Ebay buff for years, bought...

This bench was constructed using only pockethole joinery. I thought I'd use a fairly basic joinery technique here that quite a few either have access to, or can easily learn to use. Sometimes it's not what you use, but how you use it! With this project, I tried to take something...

This is another quilt stand of my own design. I made it from leftover pieces from different projects. I can't seem to throw anything away, so in order to make room on my scrap pile I make something. When I was making it, & it was time to make the cross pieces. I found this round cylinder that...

This is a cabinet that I built in July 2015. It is desined to look like an oversized shoebox. The lid opens and a drawer pulls out for lots of shoe storage. More of my shoe box design, see my Shoe box Cabinet page. For more building pictures see my Current Projects page wwbeds.com or I have...

This is a clock I made to enter a contest in Wood Magazine, in the year 2000. It was sponsored by the United States Marines. They held a sale with all the entry's, & the proceeds went towards the "Toys for Tots" fund. I didn't win a prize, but I had a lot of fun making it. It was sold for...

This display is if of brushed steel, maple and glass. I like the juxtaposition of unlike materials.

This one was for my wife.

I've been planning to make a trellis for the garden, something for sweet peas to climb up - or any of the other vining plants threatening to take over the yard. Even before the categories were picked (and I was knee deep in wrapping up my Thorsen table entry) I worked out what I would make for...

_*I didn't have the time to build anything new for this contest, because of Barb's recent illness. It has interfered with shop time. During her recovery, I'm now the chief cook, & bottle washer. ;) Martin said we could enter something old. How about 25 years old? This project was done in two...

I made a brace (Couple of these) benches for use outdoors. They are both the same, its just that the first bench has been outside weathering for about 12 months. It is darker than the pictures show. The arms because of the end grain have darkened the most. The plans came from Wood Magazine...