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Completed a pair of these benches in July 1998. This is a Thos. Moser Eastward Bench. Follow this link to see how I did at duplicating Moser's design. My parents came for a month-long visit while I was stationed in Germany. I was only able to take two weeks off while they were with us and...

I made a froe (riving axe) and mallet for myself using wood from a tree that fell in our yard, and an old lawnmower blade. I used my angle grinder to shape the blade, which took a while because a lawnmower blade is not perfectly straight. After much sweat and grinding, I bolted it to a handle...

A couple of years ago a guy at a garage sale gave me a couple of pine slabs. They were about 6' by 18" by 2" thick. We used them for around our fire pit and just put them on plastic crates. This worked fine for years. But not any more. My second daughter is getting married (I mentioned this...

Wooden mallet from oak with walnut mallets.

Derby cars for scouts from a couple years ago. The Star Destroyer was the cub-master's car. It looked really good painted (no pics) but it looks sweet bare wood too.

I got into woodworking about a month ago when I bought a dazuki saw and some chisels. Since then, I've made a couple of dovetail joints and some mortise and tenon joints. Those joints were made using a rubber mallet so I figured that my first real wood project should be a mallet that I can use...

Here's my walnut TV stand, just finished last week. I designed & built this for myself; I know that's against the rules! I was going for something with an appealing design, but also wanted it to be functional and allow lots of air flow for electronics, which is why I left the back completely...

Inspired here I built my first workbench. I already had a machine laminated spruce slab with pretty raw uneven surface (1m x 2,4m), that served me for years as workbench on wobbly saw horses or scaffold stage. It was intended to be used as a framework slab for my concrete pillar creations, that...

Every summer, the local woodworking club that I belong to, has a "picnic challenge". This year, each participant was to make something out of three pieces of wood provided by the club president. Each set of wood was as close to identical as possible. The three pieces of wood were: a wedge of...

I build this bench last year. I have a woodworking vise, but wanted this to be all wood. The bench has no screws, glue or nails. All M&T and dovetails with dowels locking everything in place. One thing that prevents me from doing more is not having a convenient way to secure work. I looked at...

After I did the last piece to honor the military, I thought I would do the same for some other professions that deserve our thanks and remembrance. All of these men and woman that put their lives on the line to protect us deserve the upmost respect from all of us. I'm making the pattern for...

I was getting sick of my black plastic sawhorses and had a pile of scrap wood laying around. Beats throwing the cut off pieces from previous projects into the fire pit. It is a standard krenov style sawhorse, but I added a few curves to lighten up the shape a bit. Everyone I have shown these to...

Dimensions: 40"L x 15"W x 36"H Materials: Wenge, Sepele & Cherry Wood The Elegant Hall Table features solid Sepele panels whose grain seems almost holographic when viewed from different angels. The panels are encased by solid cherry panel caps and solid cherry legs. The table top is framed by...

Simple and Elegant. The cove pencil box features an asymmetrical cove carve around the entirety of the exterior. The box body is made of solid Zebrawood with Wenge accents at the top and bottom. Each miter is splined with two Wenge splines. No stains or dies were used in the making of this...

SAMPLER This Strat style guitar body was constructed in three layers. The top layer is a sampling of reclaimed cherry, walnut, and mahogany woods. The center section was constructed using reclaimed oak. The bottom section features a three piece wedge design using reclaimed mahogany on...

My first real woodworking project. I needed a pair of sawhorses that I can use around the shop, but I wanted to build something that would give me some practice in joinery and hand tool skills. I saw NikBrown's post here ... and decided to give it a shot. I made tons of mistakes on the first...

Easy door stopper made in Scotland by a happy monkey On my visit in Scotland, I was in the mood for a little turning project one day. So I found some wood in the scrap bin at Jamies workshop, Oak to be precise. So I remembered seeing this type door stopper in a shop once and had them on my to...

The size of the table is 28" wide x 68" long x 36" tall. The base is made out of Alder with two hard maple dovetailed drawers on blumotiom soft close undermount slides. The top is made out of Hickory and is hand planed and distressed, there are hand turned Hickory pulls on the drawers. The legs...

Every now and then I needed some kind of tapered piece of wood in the past. I then used to devise some makeshift contraption to quickly perform the task at hand. Afterwards the jig usually went into the bin. Today I made some wedges for a couple of small planes I intend to make. And so I...

With summer on the horizon, and most of us spending a lot of time at home right now, I wanted to design a patio chaise lounge with an adjustable back so I could lay in the sun or read a book out on my deck. That being said, I really wanted something compact that I could easily store away when...