My first plane. It is a lot of fun making my own tools. As you can see it is my third woodworking tool. I made a bow saw, a wooden mallet and now a plane.

I used walnut and maple. I found a step by step instructions for this first one. I need to work harder on getting it all square and straight.

I made this plane for my brother back in Holland, a professional woodworker-artist. This means I need to make myself an other one still.

This is my Treo sync station on my desk at work. I had to come up with something upright for my phone to sync and charge. Older PDA phones came with a station to set the phone into, but not the Treo’s anymore. I used some old Taiwanese pallet wood with some interesting coloration. I just need to work on hiding my drywall screws better. The plug is clamped by the little block and screws. The phone sets stable on the plug.

This is a wall unit I just finished. I used partly clear pine part poplar. The face of the cabinet is tung and grove with a bead. It all needs to be painted still. The fire place was build by a mason. We collected the rock at the beach here in Oceanside. The mantel and hearth I cut out of Sebastian Sandstone. The design was done by my wife.

Oh, by the way, there are secret little doors in the side of one of one of the compartments?

I had this project posted at http://homerefurbers.com/projects/108 for a while.

In the blogs http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/PaBull/blog/series/1045 I showed a little of the construction of the beds for the doll of my two daughters dolls. My wife will take it from here and make all the bedding, quilts and drapes. These will be Christmas presents.

I measured an American doll bed from a friend and used the design from one of the FWW magazines:

http://homerefurbers.com/projects/87

This coffee table was designed for our motor home. It stores nicely next to the bench during travel. It covers the hole of the stairs during the night, so none of the children will fall into this cavity. And when we are set up at a campground we use it as coffee or dining table. The NON-wood material I used in this project was the threaded table leg connectors.

The Gorilla glue is keeping it all together for many years of use.

Heh, heh, slow going when you are too cheap to hire a cabinet maker. Well is an other bathroom. Again with maple cabinets. I still need to make the medicine cabinet, but that will come later.

The granite counter I bought from Lowe’s. It came with bowl and all, but i had to buy two, cut them to size and seam them together.

This is the smallest bathroom cabinet in the house. This is one of the few completely done. All cabinets in the house are made of Hard Maple. The sink I bought at Lowes. It came with a cheap cabinet that I tossed. The hardest part about this style cabinet with the flush doors is, to keep it all flush. The finish is tung and polyurithane.

Wooden Mallet, this is a very simple tool to make. I used 3/4 maple left over from my face frames of my kitchen. The handle is simple 3/4 stock with rounded handle and a tapered top going into the head. Make the handle first. You might want to plane the handle down slightly to be able to slide the handle in and out of the head. (at least that is what I did, you can glu them up to be permanent too) Next is the head. Cut the head three times from 3/4 solid stock. Take one of these for the center and lay the handle on it and mark your cuts for the handle to fit through it. When you do your glu-up, you might considder drilling and gluing dowels in the head to keep the parts in place. Be sure to remove all glu inside the head so that the handle will still fit. After the whole head was done, I took my beltsander to it and finnished it off with a 1/2” round over with my router, this will reduce the damage on the wood you are wacking.

For lumber I would take a closed grain like maple. (beech wood be an other good choice)

You can change the size on the plans to make this hammer bigger or smaller depending on the project. An other thing you can do is change the shape of the mallet.

I use this hammer for cabinet assambly and carving. ( I should build a smaller one for carving).

I got the design from http://www.toolsforwoodworking.com. On this website you will find the exact plans with to scale drawings. There are more designs, like on http://www.geocities.com/plybench/bowsaw.html?200821.

The lumber was from pallets that came from Taiwan with plant material for our nursery.

I thought it was cool to make this thing low cost. the metal pins are made from door hinge pins. The tention cord is a shoe lace I bought at Albertsons.