This one my friend made for his Dad. It has 14 hooks for keys and is about 10” wide. Woods are walnut, maple, and osage orange (hedge as we call it).

The cross is at the top. Routed a keyhole slot in the back to hang it from.

OK, maybe it was not my original idea, but I’m sure someone thought of it first.

Walnut, Maple, and Red Oak.

Finished the Woodwhisperer method.

Did you all realize ahead of time how much time it takes to make this style. I thought I had allotted enough, but I was wrong.

We had our Christmas early this year with my family and the cutting boards were a huge success.

My friend and I are planning on making a couple different workbenches. I want a “real” woodworking bench, he wants a “regular” bench.

We started with his.

The top is made from the Ash studs I pulled out of my Grandpa’s place.
The base is some southern yellow pine that my friend picked up.

It took us way too much to build it, but we had fun. Those old studs are hard, twisted, warped, bowed, and have nails in them. Gave the jointer and planer a good work out.

The base attached to the top with lags and bolts so that it can be taken apart for transportation later.

For those that have been following the blog, it is over.
For those that haven’t, here it is: http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/KevinHuber/blog/5488

This crib started a couple months ago with aquiring the lumber. My wife’s uncle had a sawmill with his father. This mill hasn’t ran in over 20 years. One day they called and asked if we could come and help move the good lumber back to their house from this warehouse it was stored in. If we did, anything they didn’t want we could have. Anything we didn’t take was going to make a great hot dog roasting fire. So off we go. Well, the amount of lumber was astonishing. We moved out all of the good lumber and I got a couple trailers full of the “bad stuff” the stuff that was going to be burnt – hence the One Man’s Junk reference.

This crib is an original design by … me.

In working on my crib (see Blog) I have ran across a problem. I need to route a few different shapes, dadoes, inlaid plastic hardware, keyhole slots, ... I thought I’d be smart and use my router table. Background info: My router table is actually a cast iron top attached to my Unisaw. This way I can use the Unifence as my router fence. The problem I had was I would get part way through the cut at the piece would pull away from the fence a little and result in a crooked cut.

My next attempt was to use a featherboard. This didn’t work well with my stops because I had to stop on both ends and you can only push one direction with a traditional featherboard.

My Solution: Use a piece I made for my bandsaw. I resaw guide.

This worked great. Held the piece tight to the fence as well as allowed me to route forward and back to make sure the ends were cleaned out well.

This is the other rack I have. It is also really rough, but is currently serving it’s purpose. I wanted to use the 2×4’s from the walls were we removing from our house for some thing and this sounded like a good idea. I decided to make this and my rolling rack hastily out of rough material because I wanted to try out my design ideas without spending much time or money until I knew if they were going to work.

Once the shop is redone, I may finish it out nicer.

Length is 16’ long, width is 2’, and there is 2’ above it. The pipe under is 1/2” EMT (electrical conduit) and is used for storing pipe.

Right now it is filled with mostly trim and crown molding I got from a hotel I was building. There was a lot of 4” maple crown left that was stained with a cherry stain. Obviously I couldn’t let this land in a dumpster. I have planed some of it down to play with and I know if I can’t find a use for the crown, I can get nice 1/2” x 3 1/2” maple out of it.

I made this rack right after I bought my shop (house came with it HA HA) and had to do it quickly so it is not perfect, but it works for now.

The base is build out of 2×6’s and 7/16” OSB over it. The sides and middle are made from 2×4’s lag screwed to the 2×6’s. The cart is split into two sides, one for sheet goods and one for lumber. I think it is about 2’ wide, but I can’t remember and don’t want to go out to measure. The storage height is 4’ tall and 8’ long. Of course it filled up too fast and I ended up adding a little storage box on the back. Next I think I’ll add a top to it so the sides don’t bow out anymore.

For know part of my clamps are just riding on the side of it as you will see. Don’t worry, the lumber does not get stacked like this usually, I just threw it on there today so I could clean up another rack. It’ll get rearranged properly tomorrow.

The whole cart rolls on large casters and rolls surprisingly easy.