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Maple and Hickory Jewlery Box
This is the first thing I’ve ever made and it taught me alot along the way. I did tenons on the sides and mortised the legs. I caught someone on youtube making wood hinges so i threw the brass ones I...
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Maple And Hickory tealight candle
Here’s my take on the WWMM Candle. This gave me a reason to buy a set of forstner bits. All I need is an excuse. lol. Just got a set of router bits tonight too so now my router has a purpose besides...
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Japanese Mood Lamp
Here’s a Japanese lamp with a 7 color flashing led wired up inside. It’s made of hickory and maple left fron my jewlery box build.
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Easy Drill Press Table
Here’s an easy drill press table for any newbie like myself. I just free handed some 2” circles on the band saw and used a 3/4 forstner to make a 1/4” deep recess the cut 3/4 dowel down to 1/2” lengths...
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Marquetry Help
Well is my first attempt at marquetry with an exacto knife. I haven’t been able to find a lot of good info on how to do it so I just kinda went at it. I used to much glue for sure. It kinda bled thru...
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Tobacco dugout
Here are some tobacco dugouts I made to try and sell at a local tobacco shop. They were really easy to make ,I used hickory and padauk. They have a sliding dovetail lid, and I used super glue to hold...
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Spline Jig
I recently bought a new router and realized that the spline jig I had made for my table saw was junk. This one is much better and can be uses on both the router and table saw, it just rides the fence....
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Free Bench
I got all the wood for this and many future projects for free at work. It’s made from pine and the bench seat is 39” x 11 1/2” x 3”. It stands 23” and was finished with BLO. I added birch 1” plug to...
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Long lost Relative
So glad to finally have this one done. I scraped the frame on my first attempt as it was to thin or I took to great a pass when cutting the rabett for the panel and it cracked. gfadvm (Andy) took a...
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Bandsaw outfeed Table
First pieces of walnut firewood salvaged. I picked up three four foot long, 6” diameter logs from my brother n law. Resaw sled coming!! This opens up possibilities.
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Permanent Fixtures
These boxes have been sitting on my work bench long enough, so I decided to finish them. I got delayed making jigs. Not a bad thing. The first is quartersawn sycamore and walnut with padauk splines and...
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Down & Dirty Resaw Sled
Well I finally completed another jig, ehhh! I haven’t been able to test it as I only have the 1/4” blade that came with my saw when I bought it recently. It’s a goal of mine to make all my own tools...
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Pizza Paddle
Just a little pizza paddle with some scraps I had. Made from Cherry, quartersawn sycamore, and walnut with a oil and wax finish. Thanks for the idea fellow LJ’s. It’s 12” wide by 15” long , never...
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Cherry Trestle Marquetry Bench
Here is my first attempt at furniture, which I wasn’t so sure I had the skill to finish but I really like how it turned out. The bench is all cherry with mortise and tenon trestle legs and center...
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Greene And Greene Kinda
This is my first table based on the greene and greene box joint drawer. It is salvaged 100 year old walnut and cherry with ebony plugs, finished with blo. It took me three months to complete because...
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