When Tim posted his Beer Plane I knew I was making one. Beech, peruvian walnut and bubinga make up the plane. Extensive testing might be the reason I balanced a growler.

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I’ve been needing to get my drill press off the floor dolly for some time now. I made the cart from a $5.00 damaged 3/4” oak plywood. I make garage cabinets with 3” fingerjoints using a router jig seen in picture two. I saw that done on a table leg of a display table and liked it, just something different. The drawers were made from our kids old play table. I used a dovetail jig to make the drawers. I left the scribbles and stickers on the drawers. Drawer glides were from a old desk. Knobs from a old kitchen redo. Top is scrap particle board with oak trim. Three coats of poly. The only purchase was the casters. Nothing fancy but it will help with stroage. My next projects will be getting my shop under control. Thanks for looking.

A very long over due jewelry box for my wife was delivered on Christmas but the finish was rushed and did not turn out well. I fixed it and gave it to her again for Valentine’s Day. Its made from bubinga, walnut burl veneer, birdseye maple and peruvian walnut. Finish is tung oil, shellac and wax. Its 15” x 11” x 18.5” with a 4’ wing span. I designed it to be simple on the outside, but when opened to have some pop. To do that I built in some special meaning for my wife. The collage idea under the lid came from a old wooden blanket chest that was her mothers. It was decorated with newspaper art under its lid to dress it up. My daughter found the pictures and glued them for me. The birdseye maple is her favorite wood. The “Canadian Lock Joint” on the drawers comes from her parents old bedroom set. Its about 65 years old and was made in Canada. I’ve never seen a lock joint with the little tab on the front before. It keeps the drawer side from pulling apart. I’ll post a blog on how I made them. The pulls are mammouth kauri wood. They represent our love. “Like burried ancient wood that just won’t rot.” I know, I’m gonna pay for that. The soss hinges were pretty straight forward. The lid hinges were alittle exciting to get them correct. Thanks to daKremer and David Bethume for posting bead makers. I made the little beads on the hooks using a paint can and drill press. I’ll post that too. Thanks for looking.

I couldn’t be there for the suprise party so I sent him a suprise. Its a simple box. Walnut sides, birdseye maple for the top and bottom panel. Mitered corners. and the panels set in grooves. I’m still doing something wrong cutting miters on the table saw. I made a little shooting board and cleaned up the miters with a block plane. they are pretty tight now. The finsih is oil and wax. I bought two stogies one for him and one for me. Thanks for looking.

After receiving a box from me, my daughter, she’s 10, wanted to build one. We talked about what woods, size and lids. This is what she came up with. Its a walnut box with sliding maple top and maple bottom. 9.5” x 6” x 3.75”. Construction is basic. We glued piece of walnut to the inside end pieces to give the side pieces more support. The bottom and top set in a groove. I cut the pieces and she sanded and glued the box together. She even helped in chopping the shelf (?) for the walnut pull on the lid. We added the brass pins because “it needed something”. Its finished with oil, several coats of shellac and wax. She won’t tell me what she will put in it other than stuff. It was fun working with her and she said she wants to do more.

After doing a big/long tile job at the house I needed to get in the shop and have some fun. The boxes are for my wife and daughter. Barzilian cherry for the sides, walnut for the bottoms and keys and lace wood for the top. Finish is tung oil and wax. They came out ok. I learned a lot on how to make boxes.

Mallet started out from putting an edge back on my beater chisel. To try out the edge I ended up with a thru mortise in a piece of scrap walnut. Why not try and make a mallet? The handle is white oak. The head is walnut and babinga. Finish is a couple coats of wipe on poly. Mallet was made with hand tools and boy do I need practice with that. My son like it so its his.

I had a few hours yesterday to try out an idea I had. A while back I made a bent wood laminated guitar stand. I am very pleased with it other than I did not have a way to finish the laminates to a consistance thickness. After glue up I could see little spaces between the laminations. My method was to use a palm sander to smooth out the band saw marks. Idealy a thickness drum sander would have been the ticket.

The vacuum sled is 1/2” plywood nested in dados. I sized it to a piece of scrap I had. Its 6” wide x 3” high x 33” long. I drilled 1/8” through holes on a 1” square pattern on the top of the sled. A hole accepts the Ridgid vaccum hose in the end. I waxed the bottom and taped off the holes not needed. I had some left over cherry from a recent project that was about 3/16” thick. The stock sucked right down on the sled and passed through the planer with no problems taking light cuts. About .015” a pass till the side was clean. Flip, make passes till the second side was clean the I took .005” a pass to see how thin I could finish. (I have a dial indicator on the back of the planer) I was able to get .035” thick when the tear out stated. At .055” thick there was just one little spot of tear out. The blades on my planer are factory original and about seven years old. I wonder what I could get with sharp blades. The thickness varies a few thousands over the length. The sled is currently not glued or fastened together so maybe thats where I’m getting that.

The process of running the stock with the sled is slow. Turn on the vac, turn on the planer, run the stock, stop the planer, stop the vac, disconnect the vac from the sled, carry the sled to the front, attatch the vac, turn on the vac, adjust the planer, turn on the planer run the stock through and repete. I’m thrusty now.

This was something I had to try. It only took me a hour to build. Is it the best way, probably not. In a pinch if you don’t have access to a thickness sander and there are not many pieces to run it could get you out of a jam.
Your questions and coments are welcome.

Ater the new tile was installed the cabinets were the wrong color and style. The mirror trim around the mirrors was the first to go. I removed the doors and drawers and sanded away the finish. New doors, drawer fronts and mirror trim are cherry in the Shaker style. Loose tenons and solid panels make up the construction. Varathane wood conditioner and Varathane stain, (I really like the sample packets of stain to test color for .25 cents a pop). A few coats of wipe on poly with 220 grit sanding between coats. I ended up building a little corner jig with wedges to clame the 10’ mirror frame together.

I copied this design of a guitar stand from a picture on another web site. Its made from Peruvian Walnut, Maple and Walnut inlay. This project was several firsts for me. Resawing, bentwood lamination and inlay. I used Gorila Glue for the lamination. Several articles on bentwood laminaton posted on LJ’s helped. Thanks to the members that answered my resaw questions. Not showing in the pictures, the maple has some nice figure. Its finished with a couple coats of oil and wax.

I built the foot stool to match two leather chairs. Made from popular. Mortise and tenon construction, glue and pins. Getting the leg to angle from the inside and back was the only tricky part. I intended to have it covered in matching leather, but The Designer-In-Chief wants a fabric cover. We had the stripe laying around so I used that for now. Thanks for looking.

I build this bird feeder six years ago. It was a practice exercise for a planned Morris chair. I wanted to be able to make square legs with quarter sawn grain on all four sides. I also wanted to paractice thru tenons and pins. The frame is made from 5/4 flat sawn white oak. I cut the 45degrees on the table saw and was suprised that only in two locations did not close up tight. At the time of glue up I put solid pieces of oak in the area of the leg bottoms and thru tenons. I drilled and used a chisel to square up the mortises. The feeder stands on patio blocks to keep it off the ground. I drilled into the solid section of the bottoms and inserted rebar. Patio blocks are drilled through and rebar slides into concrete in the ground. So far all joints are holding up. I used waterproof glue and a exterior oil stain. Its on its second coat of stain and only the bottoms have small checks where its been sitting in snow. Thanks for looking.

I made this piano bench a year ago. I took the dimiensions of the piano bench at my in-laws fifteen years ago and saved it till someone took interest in our piano. Its made from clear pine. One of the big box stores in my ares sells its damaged wood. I grabbed a stack of tongue and grove pine. Removed the T&G, surfaced and glued up the top, legs and sides. Bottom is 1/4 mdf I had left over. Construction is mortise and tenon. I don’t think I have fifteen dollars in it. Bench is sanded, sealed, primed, spray panted and finished with a poly top coat. Inside paint is left over too. Thanks for looking.

About 15 years ago we picked up two painted Haywood Wakefield end tables. After refinishing them my wife wanted a coffee table to match. In 2002 I found dimentions for height, width and length of a HW coffee table on line. I copied the table curve and and leg shape from the end tables. I made a series of jigs to produce the legs so they would be consistent. That was actually a lot of fun and worked out well. The coffee table is made from soft maple. Mixed stains and poly finish. The stain matches our end tables but is not the “secret blonde Haywood Wakefield formula”. Thanks for looking.

I made this jewelry box as a gift back in 03. Pictures are scaned so I hope they look ok. The design was from a Doug Stowe book. The only difference, I made the back a maple panel instead of a plywood panel in the event the box is place in front of a mirror. It’s made from soft maple with a honey color stain and poly finish. Drawer pulls are rosewood (?). Thanks for looking.
Dan

I built this cherry bench to match our purchased dining set about a year ago. Mortise and tenon. Oil and wax finish. This is my first post. I’m working out the kinks with the camera. Thanks for looking.
Dan