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Hello my friends !, after finishing this work, I present here my project of a Moxon Vise Benchtop Bench. It was built using only hand tools at all steps. The entire project was documented with specific details, in three entries here in my blog with explanations and pictures, and in turn these...

My last time trying to do real woodworking with construction lumber in a long while. Entry for the current Reddit woodworking 2×4 challenge. Huge exercise in frustration trying to make the wood do stuff it just didn't want to, but the end result is sturdy enough for 250 pounds on top and for...

I made these a few months ago as gifts. Now that they've all been given, I can post about them. I got the idea after seeing Benchcrafted "Mag-Bloks" and decided to try to make some myself. I picked up some random offcuts from a local wood place for a good price-cherry, walnut, red-oak, QS...

Some time ago, I posted about a home near ours which was being taken down for reconstruction. The owner allowed us to take the old wood and I filled the bed of my pickup three times and had timbers sticking out the back nearly 7 feet beyond the tailgate. Good thing I was only driving about 6...

Here is my version of a Stickley drink stand. It is constructed out of African Mahogany and finished with spar varnish in a wiping recipe. Now that it's completed I see that it really needs to be sitting beside a Morris chair. Hmmmmm

Introducing my new workbench that I just finished. I Love It! This is my version of the Weekend Workbench from The WoodSmith Shop. I followed the design pretty closely - I only made my top a bit smaller and added the drawer case instead of a shelf. Here's the specs: Top: 77"x32"x3" 4 layers...

This project is pretty simple and utilitarian - just a few pegs to hold brooms and mops in the laundry room. But since I wanted to make it (almost) entirely from materials I had on had, I got to experiment with a few new techniques. I decided to make it from walnut. The only scrap I had was a...

This is the first project I've done in six years. We need a new table so I thought I'd give it a try. Man I'm hooked all over again. I've always liked Woodworking but after jumping in and building this table, I fell in love. I think it turned out pretty good. There's a few things I'd do...

I saw some knife blocks like this on the internet so thought Id try my hand at making some, they are actually really simple to to. The hard part was finding all of the skewers to go inside at a reasonable price! There are over 2000 in each block so buying them 100 at a time would have left a...

Mahogany and oak. Style courtesy of andy "art box" from oregon. I have a lot of problems making boxes. Not sure why….perhaps the lack of patience on smaller detail projects. Either way, I struggled on this one. I tried hinges but failed. The screws kept breaking despite pre-drilling. In...

This is a night stand I built as a gift for my niece. It was completed in June 2015. The whole table is built out of solid wood (poplar and pine), including the drawer bottom. The finish is a thinned down coat of black milk paint and 3 coats of wiping varnish. I don't have the dimensions...

We've lived in this old house for 8 year, and still have our microwave sitting atop a small dresser in the kitchen, not exactly a Southern Living image. NOT ANY MORE! My wife and commander wanted it moved and I came up with an idea based on a teacart. With constant and continuous direction, I...