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This one doesn't really fall into the category of "fine furniture," but it was a project and it is made of wood, so I guess it goes here. I wanted a holder for my increasing collection of table saw blades, since having them ratting around in a drawer isn't really good for them or an effective...

A friend gave me some roots of a tree he took down figuring I would use them for smoking meat. But it looked so unique that I thought why not see what happens if put on the lathe. First had to clean all the dirt and loose pieces of it then figure out how to hold it on the lathe. The base and...

Found this Manzanita root ball (burl) at my local Woodcraft store. Power-sprayed it to get as much dirt and rocks out as I could. Still hit lots of pockets of dirt and rocks as I turned it. Between that and the hardness of the wood, it took a long time to turn down. I had to sharpen my tools...

Lounge chair, This is a neat design Ive been thinking about, it was a good way to utilize some great arch pieces Ive been saving. Built from salvaged cedar roots the back is a red cedar burl and the seat is a cedar root split open to reveal that beautiful compression grain, finished with a oil...

Another project complete using my thrift store score of redwood roots. I've been trying my hand at the blog feature, there you can find more details on the build For the condensed version, this started as a pretty nasty piece of redwood drift wood found at the most unlikely of places; a local...

Something Different! "Forces of Nature", created from Old Growth Redwood root…On a sculpted Redwood base Approx 8.5 feet tall, 3.5 feet across I came across this wood 5 or 6 years ago, and just had to have it…I intended to carve it, but had no firm plans. As I started cleaning up the log...

Hi All I am very pleased to have Joe's Display Case completed, it was most definitely a labor of Love, and a lot of work. I engineered this project from the ground up, with the inspiration of Joe's vision of a display case. He explained to me how he would like something of the Frank Lloyd...

Urban Sonoran Desert miniature accent art piece procured from an abandoned, dead, Palo Verde Tree. I guess I would call this abstract art. I resisted the urge to over sand and polish this piece. I simply cross cut the end of this as it was rotted and decaying. When i did, I noticed a most...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." I don't know where I've been my whole life, but I had never seen a piece of Sam Maloof"s furniture until recently. I saw Joe Davis's Maloof Rocker about 6 months ago on this site, and was immediately taken by it's beautiful lines and form. I read...

I finally broke down and bought a Forrest Dado King set, dado brake and insert for my Saw Stop. I modified the bottom drawer of my cabinet, that I posted about a month ago, to hold all my blades, inserts, shims and brakes. Everything is easily accessible and organized. Now if I can only get the...

This one of 2 boxes my wife requested to put her larger pieces of stained glass in to keep the colors separated and also so she can retrieve them easily. I did not have enough of the 1/2" plywood to make them both at once . This box goes on a shelf in a small closet that I fitted with shelves...

Driftwood canopy bed, A buddy of mine had me build this for him and then ship it Maui and set it up. The bed was built from cedar roots and poles with a nice cedar burl in the face, the two top roots took me awhile too come up with a good matching pair. Finished with poly, I had to build it...

I have been away for nearly two years from posting a project. To all my friends here; I am so sorry, I did not die, though I may smell like it at times do to the excessive heat we have had in Southern Indiana this past summer and not having air conditioning in the shop. I have torn apart that...

Few month ago I found two pieces of driftwood in the river. I didn't know what I will do with them but I brought them home. Later I was in need of a guitar stand and an idea was born. I cut off some limbs from the root and joined it with a second piece of wood. Now I have a guitar stand and a...

Here are two wall lamps, both made from mountain laurel roots. Unlike the other lamps I've shown so far, these have no added finish. The first is called "Pretzel Logic". To clean it up in all the intricate detail, I sandblasted it (first time I've tried this). It left a very even, matte...

This was a challenge I did this a few years back for some folks that were building a new home. I first hunted out the a good cedar root mass that would work, then I hollowed out the back side to lighten it up. I had to get this thing 20 feet in the air to hang it and the root was about 8 foot...

Just a piece of root we found on our property as we were doing fire mitigation. Brought it home, cleaned it up by sandblasting and hand sanding, finished with base coat of Zinsser dewaxed shellac followed by three coats of Minwax gloss poly. Thanks for looking. TZH

On a wet, dreary Northern England day about two weeks ago, the better half and I went hunting for interesting wood for me to turn. First photo shows the finds, from bottom to top, a bit of cut log, possibly Field Maple, middle, a thing that in all honesty I have no idea about and finally, a...

Okay so some times I bite off more than I can chew. This is one of those times. My friend Mike (in the first picture) said he wanted to get rid of an Olive tree at one of his rental properties. This immediately sparked my interest and I told him that when he wanted it to come down, I'd be happy...

Bayou Bijoux is french for bay gems. This is a diarama of a young refish and speckled trout from Mesquite roots with a mesquite slab as the base and cooper ore and wire. The last photo is how this all began, the fish were invereted on the root, the eyes are knots. 13" X 12" X 9"