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For whatever reason, I decided to create a door stop. Perhaps it's a result of a subconscious longing for spring, when we can prop our doors open without getting snow in the house, or suffering flies that come with summer. Compound this with that I, like many, often find myself searching for...

A while back, I turned a door stop off center to see what I got. I wanted something different than the hundreds of examples on the Net and I really liked the result. For that offset turning, I used a 2×6 of mahogany (http://lumberjocks.com/projects/298570). The other day, I was cleaning up and...

My prewife invented a way to hold a door partly open. It involved shoes that I trip over in the middle of the night. So, I designed and made this little gadget to slip under the door and hold it in place. It works quite well! The outside diameter is 3.5", and the inside slot is 1.5" wide. The...

Last year I made a couple of door stops for the school library. The plan has been since that I make some for the kids teachers and one for their classrooms. I have been informed by my wife that the principal has been maybe dropping hints. Since I use these as practice pieces to play with...

This is a pair of French-style door stops turned from a single piece of black cherry. You turn the knobs on either end of the block, about 9 inches apart, then cut the block on a diagonal. This project was taught to me by Mario Rodriguez at Philadelphia Furniture Workshop, so having broken my...