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Spalted maple burl box
Just a little box for my wifes make up table for stashing lipsticks in.
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Handmade plane
I always though it would be fun to make a wooden plane. I was right. This is my first one, curly maple and walnut. I kinda cheated on the blade/wedge slot. The iron is from another plane (it’s...
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Hey, one more plane
I see a trend towards posting handplanes we made/fixed…I like it. I am working on several, I will post an “experimental” in a few days. I found an old Stanley Bailey 28, it seemed to be trash. It...
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Something some might not have seen, handsaw retoothing (video)
I have posted a couple old hand planes I fixed/copied (and have some more). I decided to do the same with a handsaw. Now adays they get a bad rap. Some might find this interesting ? I take a very old...
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This is all your fault
I popped into LJ a very few weeks ago. I saw some amazing projects and am still going through the archives, when I have time…there seems to be a new one everyday. And I do visit every day, just to see...
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Using up some of the "scrap" from the sawmill shed
I took some “during” pictures of this little table made from a busted honeylocust crotch and a little walnut. I just doweled/glued the base to the top. Simple but sturdy lap joints on the...
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Nothing fancy, just a functional shop thing.
I was reading here about how different guys store their wet stones. I decided to show how I store mine, dry by the way. I am sort of a wet and oil stone nut. I am a professional sharpener, but even as...
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A couple more planes I made
Not much to say. A couple minis I made this morning. I had never built one with a metal rod to hold the wedge tight. I had been avoiding it, I felt like it was “cheating”. The other planes I have made...
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Scrap wood chair
It started out with these 2 (well 4 actually, they were busted) oak scraps I had been kicking around. I did not want to throw them out. They had figure and spalt. I just did not know what to do with...
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Maple and walnut bench
My camera is not cooperating. But I have not posted a project for awhile, so here is one fuzzy pictures and all. I was playing with a new toy, I mean tool. A sawmill/woodworker buddy of mine has a...
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More "scrap wood" projects, a cutting board
I have worked with wood for many years, one day hopefully I will get good at it, but never had the occasion to make a cutting board. I was cleaning the shop and came across one piece of maple left over...
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My second ever cutting board
I made my first yesterday, this is my second and probably last for awhile. The weather is getting nice and I have some beauty logs to mill. No real story, maple board with walnut dovetail splines. I...
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A first in a couple ways.
This project was the first thing I ever carved (made it this week). I have had a set of carving tools forever, but never had the inclination to use them. Carving is a skill I don’t really think I can...
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Sapwood and knots
Here are some pictures of a little project from about a month ago, and you get a story from me (unless you just skip this part and only look at the pictures ) I slipped a couple pictures of this in a...
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The vast majority of my wood working "projects" are like this.
I am just a hack woodworker, but I make my own wood. Well, I guess I don’t make it, I just mill it. I really enjoy it. I would rather on most days just make lumber than anything from it really, I’m...
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Quick and dirty BBQ table
So I had some odd pieces of wood (redbud tree top and a hard maple slab) kinda laying around in my way. I decided to make a 20 minute table to use grilling in the yard. (After sawmilling 700 bft of oak...
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Table top Zen garden
If you are familiar with Zen gardens here is one I made yesterday. I am thinking about getting into box making, looks fun, but don’t have “stuff” that I need to put in a box ? (what needs to be in a...
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Walnut table
I apologize for the grainy pictures, I am having camera troubles. Just a couple pieces of old nasty limb wood I sawmilled after a storm earlier in the year. I jointed a live edge book match for the...
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More firewood walnut furniture
I went and dug this slab out of the barn yesterday and made this little bench, put the final coat of finish on it just now (still using a junk camera, sorry) The legs are simple, the ones under the...
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Kehoe spline jig chair
After seeing Rowdy’s “Z” chair http://lumberjocks.com/projects/33945 and commenting that I wanted to make one, I sort of did. I have seen the “Z” chair on the Kehoe dovetail spline jig website, and now...
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