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November, 2010-This wood comes from pruning a large bush in my front yard. I cut it months ago, so the wood had some time to dry out. I got the idea to cut out some large feet in the lower half, and made a band saw box with the top half. I applied a Tung Oil finish. A woodworking buddy...

August, 2010-This was a piece of cut-off from a large bush I pruned last year. It is about 2-inches in diameter. I used the band saw to cut the top and bottom, and a drill press to hollow out the center, I left it natural and sprayed on some lacquer.

April, 2010-I think I am now subscribing to six wood working magazines. One of them had a project of making band saw boxes out of burl. Well, that inspired me to do these. This is a cut-off of a trunk of a bush that was in my front yard, which I pruned way back. Once I had the bottom square...

April, 2010-Just for fun I decided to make some small boxes out of some bushes I cut way back. The darker one is from a pink trumpet bush from the back yard, and the lighter one is from an unknown bush in the front yard. The darker one was made using traditional band saw box techniques. On...

This flag case was made for a friend whose father was an Air Force vet and had passed away. Her mother wanted the case a dark wood, so walnut was definitely in order. It has a maple inlay and is finished with Danish Oil and 3 coats of satin poly sanded to 400 in between coats. Comments and...

I thought that I'd share some pictures of the tools in my shop. The first is the heart of my shop. It is a SuperShop. I have the bandsaw(as seen in the picture), a six inch jointer, 12" disc sander and converts into a drill press(horizonal and vertical). It also serves as a lathe and has a...