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made entirely from cull pack lumber! this rack has been assembled to safely store my lumber, both dimensional and sheet goods! and more! Updated Pictures & Details Below i borrowed a few ideas from other lumber rack designs, mine came together quickly using a double arm design and triple...

another successful cull pack project, this time sawing stools! sized perfectly for hand sawing at my knee level and joined using pocket hole screws. i really like the pocket hole screws for shop projects. if something should happen i could easily reclaim the screws or repair the piece simply by...

With under twenty some days until the deadline, i decided to begin documenting my contest entry! As of today, i am currently 80% complete with my entry. For those knot in the no: Article Describing the Contest && The Official Rules There are a lot of 'Firsts' in my story and it begins with...

Mikes Music Stools a good friend asked if i could make him a set of bar stools, and once i showed him my shop stool, he wanted four! these took nearly as long to complete as my first two! this time around i have a considerable amount of finely tuned tools at my disposal, and the results...

this is one of the longest projects i have ever worked on! it was torn apart a few times, more than half the lumber replaced, items added and removed. and finally stained to match the pub table in the same room. really called a pie cupboard, we plan to use it as a pantry in our kitchen. its...

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...

In this installment i finish flattening the top of my table by completing the breadboard ends and use yet another new joinery technique, dowels! But in staying true to the contest rules, i have to make my own dowels from the very same board! After gluing the middle section of the table top the...

The legs of my table were sitting patiently on my workbench for a long time waiting for final dimensioning. I wanted them to look simple and be strong, and in the end i made them using blind mortises and couldn't be happier. The tenons were cut on my table saw, nibbled away and then hand filed...

well if you wondered where i have been the past few months, this is the main reason! i have been working on my low cost cyclone shop dust collection system, and i am very happy to tell all of you that it works, and works WELL! a few months back i decided i wanted to make a dust collector, and...

having access to lots of scrap wood is a definite advantage for the frugal woodworker! with a little time, lots of elbow grease, and some sweat i was able to make these two beautiful jointer's mallets. i hand planed all the pieces, and cut them to size with my table saw. the heads are made of...

this rack was needed for my growing sticker & recycled pallet collection! so i did it again and made it entirely from cull pack lumber! if you can't tell i have been harvesting lots of pallets, and have no good storage for this sized stick. i decided to make a double unit cantilever rack and it...

i had hoped to make this an exciting post but the sad fact is that i am not a finalist in this years contest. i was up against some stiff competition, a few other real fine tables, some great chairs, and lots of other stuff including a working grandfather clock (which isn't quite furniture). I...