Gustav Stickley's Poppy Table.

 

Removed.

 

Foundry patterns for a small desktop gear hobber.

It's like an inside out clock, but you put metal blanks on it and it cuts perfect gears for projects.

Other than that, to make a steel infill plane that could compete with the old norris planes and other really high end planes. I feel like Im close, but still not 100% there yet.

Your making this from wood?

 

I've always wanted a Frank Lloyd Wright bedroom. It's hard to say where the room ends and the furniture begins. I also have dreams of building a Weissenborn guitar, but that's not furniture.

 

Anything close to the same level of quality and craftsmanship that some people here routinely achieve.

 

You have to have goals.

 

That's no problem. I have a lifetime's worth of pending projects, small and large, and I doubt people want to see the list. Examples include a hamper/bench, corner cabinet, etc. ... all mundane, ordinary stuff that my partner wants for our home. I make them over time. They are not really "dreams".

 

A Victorian style house for my partner.
... and thanks for supplying the money.

So this something you can build without any help?

 

So this something you can build without any help?

It is a fair question. The true answer is no. I would need a strong friend to help with the heavy lifting and my partner to do all the fancy scrollwork. My past experience includes a room addition and a house. Neither was done by myself. Based on those experiences, I know that I am not physically strong enough to build a house entirely alone. I suppose I could rig up lifting or positioning aids, but I have not used them before.

In addition, I would need help drawing good plans that are code compliant and can get inspector approval.

-> The point of my sassy answer was to name the biggest, most expensive project I could, considering that someone else is footing the bill. Stop and laugh first, then decide if you really need to ask.

 

I've always thought about building Glen Huey's secretary. I think I could do it, but then i wouldn't have anyplace to put it. That, and the fac that I'm not sure they have a practical purpose in today's world other than being a work of art.

 

That secretary would make a fine, upstanding tool chest!

 

I'd build Greene and Greene furniture for the bedroom and living room. I love the style. No place to put any more furniture, though.

 

I have the same goal, and the same problem. So, now I'm building "smaller" stuff . . . After all, it is the form, complexity, and ethos of G&G that intrigues us, not the piece's relative size.

I recently found challenges and satisfaction in fashioning a walnut G&G picture frame--with everything but square pegs!

Enthralled with the charcoal drawing shown in frame below, I promised the artist that it would meet with an honorable frame.
(I later sent her photos of the finished product, which she warmly welcomed.)

 

A house based on the jewelry boutique Alphonse Mucha designed for Georges Fouquet. Anything that’s totally batcrap crazy over the top art nouveau, I am obsessed. No, I’ll probably never get anywhere near that level, but I’m learning what I can. I use the shapes and themes in my jewelry work, and I’m working toward wax-carving some hardware (both jewelry/jewelry box size and house size eventually) to be cast. And if you’ve seen my recent threads about things like veneering/marquetry, yeah, this is where that’s ultimately coming from.

The nearer term dream is continuing to outfit my workshop with pieces that are basic sturdy workhorses but still have that little whiff of batcrap… like a corner desk with a tall hutch and base cabinets each with two dozen 1.25” deep drawers, a stone mosaic workstation for soldering and my kiln, etc.

 

A house based on the jewelry boutique Alphonse Mucha designed for Georges Fouquet. Anything that’s totally batcrap crazy over the top art nouveau, I am obsessed. No, I’ll probably never get anywhere near that level, but I’m learning what I can. I use the shapes and themes in my jewelry work, and I’m working toward wax-carving some hardware (both jewelry/jewelry box size and house size eventually) to be cast. And if you’ve seen my recent threads about things like veneering/marquetry, yeah, this is where that’s ultimately coming from.

Thank you for posting that link. The pieces from Fouquet's store are magnificent!

It reminds me of the Driehaus museum in Chicago (which is much easier to get to!).
History of the Nickerson Mansion | Driehaus Museum
This is a woodworker's dream visit, BTW. Every room has a different intricate parquet floor pattern and different wall carvings, for example. I'll post my photos if I can find them.

 

I’ve built a lot stuff, but I have a project that I enjoy and would like to accomplish. This is my goal, but I like to be creative as well..

I started this project years ago and it just sits..

 

You're referring to the shuffleboard table project, right?

 

Yes I’m pretty down to earth at my for goals..

 

one of these:

1800's Style Secretary Cabinet Plan

Make your own secretary cabinet with our 1800's Style Secretary Cabinet Plan. This plan may look overwhelming but it truly is a great and fun scroll saw project.

cherrytreetoys.com

 

Why torture yourself?!?

 

This is Morten Stenbeck, from Denmark. A self taught master. His pieces are sought all over the Globe. I want to be his apprentice, or maybe just sweep the floor of his shop, but alas, I am older than him and live in Spain.

Yes, that is wood, and the painted finish is not so common for him.

 

This is Morten Stenbeck, from Denmark. A self taught master. His pieces are sought all over the Globe. I want to be his apprentice, or maybe just sweep the floor of his shop, but alas, I am older than him and live in Spain.

Yes, that is wood, and the painted finish is not so common for him.

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that makes no sense..So sweeping his floors is your dream..

 

I intend to build one of these, maybe more if folks want to buy the ones I make.

Maybe not as fancy as this one by Jim Tolpin, but not a budget plywood model either.

Why do I build gypsy wagons? — Port Townsend School of Woodworking

The first answer that comes to mind, which is probably the one closest to the truth, is an answer essentially the opposite to how mountaineers often reply when asked why they climb a mountain (i,e, “Because its there.”). In my case, I’ve always wanted to build gypsy caravans because they are not the

www.ptwoodschool.org

I'd also like to do some chairmaking using riven stock. I'm more interested in ladderbacks than Windsors. Russ lives not far from me but in my state an issue is getting appropriate green stock. It's just not a problem I've gotten around to figuring out. I'm a little surprised some enterprising person in hardwood country isn't selling riven chair leg blanks. Stretchers are short enough they can probably be riven from boards like Chris Shwartz does with his stick chairs.

 

Federal period furniture pieces like these at the Smithsonian. Entirely with hand tools, like the originals. (You did say "dream," right?)

 

Since every Project I do starts out inside my head....I guess all are Projects of My Dreams...working on a new one right now...using the Single Brain Cell Sketch Up.....and...after almost 60 years of building things...including homes, schools , factories, warehouses, Banks, Doctor's Offices...130+ Chest of Drawers...toy chests, blanket chests, tables of every size, Desks of all kinds...Refaced a kitchen's Cabinets with hand made Raised Panel doors...Passage Doors...More wood Decks than I can count...

Always on the lookout for something new to try...never (except me) gets old.

 

Well don't stop now! But try not to make the rest of us look too bad . . . And you're right about the project impulses: Each project comes with its own story.

 

I'd like to make a dining room server / sideboard. I'm an intermediate/novice hobbyist and there's so much I don't know about design and styles and the construction necessary to take on a case piece like this. Lots to learn.
In the meantime, I'm making end tables, kitchen tools, etc

 

I have double-wide, residential doors leading into my walk-out basement (below). It lacks any type of roof and sideways rain gets in at door bottom (sometimes).

I have long wanted to install a canopy roof similar to the one below.

It wouldn't stop all the weather, but it seems like an enjoyable and rewarding project. I think I might break the overall symmetry by continuing the roof-line over the window left of the door. It sure would make this "plainest" side of the house seem less "utilitarian."

Of course, the lantern is in the way . . . and the building inspector hates me . . . and I'm getting old.. . .

So, for now, I'll finish the bookcase for the local library. I'm starting to like projects with predictable finish-dates.

 

The Boss seems to think that I should cover the broken concrete Back Porch Patio.....

Maybe set and tapcon sleepers down to the slabs leveling with shims? Then add a layer of 5/4 x 6" deck boards, screwed down to the sleepers? Maybe add a treated 2x 4 edge? Major issue? $$$$...and..any larger than 10' x 10' would need a City Permit...Patio is 8' x 20'.......Maybe someday...

 

That’s a dream project for sure..

 

Well, since I currently rent this place, I would need the Estate's permission to do that Project. Maybe in the future, when I am able to BUY this place...I could set out enough to redo the back patio...until them...just a dream..