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This bowl was my first commission piece. I was asked to make a special bowl. The customer gave me no instruction on wood color/type and asked me to just come up with something interesting that he could give his mother on her birthday. The bowl is fairly basic. Twelve segment rings. (I'm...

Nothing too fancy. I needed a hanger for my razor and shaving brush in my spare bathroom. Had a scrap of white oak that's a pretty close match to the wood trim in the bathroom. Cut two pieces, drilled a few holes, chamfered a few edges, glued things together with a couple dowels to be extra...

I'm not quite sure what it is but I saved it from getting burned for heat. This was a chunk of firewood that my friend and I cut from a wind-downed maple tree about 4 or 5 years ago. I had been sitting outside in the weather and I decided to trim it up a bit and stick it on the lathe. It isn't...

When I cut the corners off my shop stool, I had a couple triangular pieces left over. One of them became a butter dish (I'll be posting that soon), and that in turn had some cut-offs. Some of those cut-offs turned into this pair of salt and pepper shakers. I drilled a 5/8" hole in the center of...

While making my shop stool I cut off a couple corners. Those pieces had some real nice patterns to the spalting and grain, and I decided that one of them would make a nice butter dish. I started by hollowing it out with a router plane. Then smoothed things out a little. I had some tear-out due...

The irony in this cabinet without doors is that it is made almost entirely from cabinet doors. It is made with cherry with hickory shelves. All the parts were cabinet doors I got for a dollar a piece at a discontinued parts sale at my work. Each side is three cherry doors doweled together...

Got a frame saw kit with lumber from Bad Axe Toolworks back in May and finally got around to assembling it this week. It was a fun build. You need to notch one of the two handles for the bracket for the saw plate, but not the other. Unfortunately, I notched them both, and then had to patch one...

My first attempt at an Andy style Art Box, they are made of Maple and Purple Heart. Each one has their own flaws but overall I'm happy how they turned out. A BIG thanks to Andy for his great instructions.

Here are three small turning projects that I was asked to make. The birdhouse is made of cherry, hard maple, cherry and bubblegum. The bowl is a natural edge from a wild pear tree. The lidded box is hollow with a hollow lid and turned down to less than 1/8" thick. The birdhouse was sprayed...

The stove in this old farm house doesn't have a counter on either side of it, so I made a table from old pine and oak laying around the farm. Then I found 2 full cans of linseed oil in the basement, both marked on the back '1950'. It smelled fine, and it worked great.

It's taken a while, but I've finally finished my latest attempt to make an elegant box, including some new challenges. As usual, it was better in my head than it turned out, but, that said, I actually quite like it. I blogged the entire construction here - although I don't think you'll learn...

In preparation for the box swap I've been trying to clean up my work bench. One of the things that have been taking up a lot of space are my rasps and files, so I decided to build a box for them. Since I've been practicing dovetails, I decided to dovetail the sides of the box together. While...

As for the reel storage, I decided to make with a sort of "Nature " flagrance . You may notice that there are several flaws of the design and execution. During the process, I made some very severe mistakes. To cover up these, I changed the original design and finally came up with this. Curly...

This bowl is about 3 inches in diameter, and about 2 high. It was a small piece of birch I cut off the end of the bigger board I've been making bowls from, so the next bowls will probably be from some other wood scraps from the shop. This went pretty smoothly, with only a little tear-out. I got...

I have lurked for years, signed up recently, and I wanted to post something to introduce myself. So hello everybody! Before my daughter was born I thought to myself I'm going to make her a dresser. Besides a bookcase that was not very exciting this is the first piece of furniture I ever made. I...

All wood for this project was obtained from the scrap pile. QSWO for outer layer, maple for lift and splines, red cedar for inner lining (I know, I know, it's not Spanish cedar. But again, I was using scraps!). Originally, I was going to make it rectangular , but I didn't quite have enough...

Hi Lumber Jocks and Janes, I made this side table out of half of an old reclaimed 2×4 for Summers Woodworking Contest 2014. I wanted a bolted together look with no apron because I thought it would be an interesting contrast between fragility and strength. The other contrast effect I was going...

Originally, this was a throw together frame for a chalk board. I used it as a menu at a farmers market. So it has been tossed around the back of a truck. Sent flying in heavy winds, more than once. Then one slow day I started in carving. I added the fir cap, top and bottom. Then glazed it...

Finally completed part 2 of Ben's Bedroom Furniture. Boy, was this a challenge for me. I realize more than ever how important correct dimensions and squareness are when building a chest with flush drawers. Wasn't perferct, but still looks pretty good for a boy's bedroom. Next will be the...

The original design for this was to be square, with square legs. But in putting the pieces of wood together there always seemed to be a direction caused by the grain, which didn't look right, so I "stretched it" to make this. I spent a while wondering what to use for the suspension strings -...