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This completes my 'set'
I decided I wanted a box from each type of wood I sawed the logs for the lumber. This is the last of five. This one is Oklahoma elm. Dimensions:12×7x3 3/4”. No glue box joints. Live edges on top and...
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NOT Fine Woodworking!
More improvements to MY bathroom in my ongoing project to eliminate all the stainless steel handles,towel racks,and cabinets. This was a built in TP storage/dispenser area that really offended me so...
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A New Design For Me
My new LJ buddy Jeff sent me some wood to play with recently and I felt under pressure to produce something worthy of the wood. This is what I came up with. I resawed the birdseye winding up with 6’ of...
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Blackjack Is NOT Easy
I’ve been wanting to try a ‘wing box’ and a different method of making Shipwright hinges. I had a piece of blackjack oak that I thought would look cool. This stuff is very difficult: splits, cracks,...
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Reclaimed Redwood and Gift Maple
After seeing all of Randy’s (Blackie’s) cool bandsaw boxes, I decided it was time to take the resaw blade off my saw and have some fun. I haven’t done these for several years so thought I’d start with...
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No Hardware Lazy Susan
Not much woodworking here but Monte’s lazy susans and a question about where to buy hardware got me thinking: could one work with no hardware? This project is the answer. It is 15” in diameter with a...
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Second Redwood and Maple Bandsaw Box
This is the last of that redwood joist. Just a different shape from the previous one and some plain soft maple. Dimensiions: 13×6 1/2×6”. Finish: 3 coats brushed on shellac followed by Renissance wax....
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Walnut Slab Coffee Table
A veterinarian friend gave me several nice pieces of walnut after I worked on his horse and wouldn’t let him pay me. This slab really wanted to be a live edge table so I tried to let the wood design...
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A Couple Of Quickies
I just got back in the shop briefly and wanted something quick and easy to finish before I have to leave again. Dimensions: 7 1/2×5x4 1/2”. Material: 3/4” Tiger Strand Bamboo panel. Finish: brushed on...
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Granadillo and Maple
This granadillo was a gift from my LJ buddy Jeff. I wanted to make something worthy of this cool wood so I made a second box from this same design as I loved the first one of Birdseye maple and walnut....
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Mystery Pallet Wood/Different Design
I’ve had this design idea in my head ever since making the blackjack oak wing box so thought I’d see if it was doable. Dimensions:12×3 1/2×7 1/2”. No glue/pinned box joints.Double Shipwright style...
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Candy Machine
This was a blatant attempt to copy vipond33’s way cool candy machine. The poplar prototype went well, then I broke out the walnut and zebrawood and things began to go awry! I decided to add more...
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Zebrawood and Maple
Second attempt to post this :( Soft maple and zebrawood. Dimensions: 12 1/2×8 1/2×5”. Joinery was half laps and pinned half laps for the panels and splined miters for the corners. The panels are...
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Several Lessons Learned
I made this box from some Ipe (Brazilian Walnut) flooring and inlaid some strips of Zebrawood scraps from my last box. Finished with 3 coats of brushed on shellac which wasn’t drying fast enough to...
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Mesquite Valet #2
I love mesquite and live edge projects and the last one of these I made sold so decided to do another. Dimensions: 11 1/2×7 1/4×5”. Drawer box of pine. Finished with shellac (same technique as the last...
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Bandsaw Box (used my Archimedes trammel)
Another bandsaw box of very old reclaimed redwood and maple. Dimensions:base is 12 1/2×8 1/2”, overall height is 17”. Finished with 3 coats brushed on shellac followed by hours of rubbing/polishing...
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Bamboo and Pine (not a box)
I was fascinated by a “caseless” chest posted recently so decided to give it a try. Made the frame from some 1×7 shiplap barn siding my neighbor had stored outside for several years (really warped,...
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Pine/Bamboo Chest #2
This chest is basically the same as the one I posted about 10 days ago with what I think is a big improvement: The “frame” is made from 1 1/4” stock rather than the 5/8” used for the first one. I...
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"Bullet"
One of my LJ buddies (Naked Joinery) sent me a nice piece of crotch walnut to play with. I resawed it and there was a bullet in one half of the bookmatch! I had to use the bullet half so another box...
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"Old Yeller"
This box is the ‘brother’ to “Bullet”. The walnut is the other half of the bookmatch I sawed from the crotch walnut “Naked Joinery” sent me. The frame is some mulberry I sawed last summer from...
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