Rustic rocking chair from pine and cypress

can you tell how little experience I have in making the bed sheets look good….......none!

Big one is 3’ x 5’ will be a counter top, smaller one is 2’ x 3’ walnut and maple

THe 1 1/4 inch rounds can be replaced with shorter or longer pieces to make any size quilt from craft size to bed size. I hope it works, I don’t know a thing about quilting, I just got the ideas by googling some pictures of others.

Got out the handsaw and very very carefully cut the posts in two, wheeeeewwww what a relief it worked out.

The table is tall, 42 inches. made from southern yellow pine and cypress. I think the backs of the chairs, to me, looks to be just a little short. I will probably make a couple more and add about 2 inches to the back height. It sits just fine, very comfortable, it just looks to short.

2nd dual ladder rustic log bunkbed. Except for the plywood, need it around 40” wide both to fit in the truck and the bed, but home depot dosnt like to cut less than 12”, so I will have to find the assosiat that is in a good mood.

Tried one with a ladder on both sides, looks like its the best option

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I first made this big one for a 20” x 30” print I just had made of one of my favorite scenic spots, looking south just outside of Natural Bridges NP in Utah.
It turned out pretty good so I started in on some 8” x 10”
I left some traces of the bark on most of them, kinda more rustic, rustic look.

Log dresser. The pannels are 1” cypress, I plan to make a relief in them molesworth style, just havent decided yet on what they will be. There are 4 pannels, I am thinking the “end of the trail” indian on a horse as one. Maybe a buffalo as another. Any ideas are welcome please.

Tried to make a Lance point after some inspiration from some of Foxcrafts projects.

Raised pannel of a couple of coondogs treeing. They are about 1/8 inch high. The doors are cypress and the rest is from some scrap sepali. I think thats what it is called.

rustic entryway table, molesworth inspired, but with south florida wildlife.

Rustic bedside table that I made from some 1” cypress and slash pine logs. Found a nice picture of a buck on google pictures, that looked really nice as a silouette shadow. Then I enlarged it a little, set a piece of paper on the screen and traced it out. Then I cut the image out and retraces it onto the pannels. The crossed arrows I drew freehand. Used a router to carve out everything that wasn’t a dear or an arrow. Its about 1/4 inch deep. Used some black mocca stain to make it pop out more. It has a pull out shelf that I will use set the laptop on, a small drawer under it and then under that is the door to the larger cabinet.

The legs need to be a little wider, to lessen the tipping potential. But they are pretty comfortable.

I want to get a couple of holdfasts, so I haven’t drilled any dog holes yet, not sure of the size hole needed. Need to glue some leather, or something on the vise faces. Also need to find a couple of bicycle sprockets, about 15 tooth I think, to connect the two tail vises together.
I started this with the idea of making it out of all nice expensive hardwoods. But after figuring a little the price was just ridiculous. I did make the top layer of the top out of 1” ash, then glued 3 layers of plywood under that, its right at 3 inches thick. For the legs I glued up 3 pieces of 2×6 southern yellow pine from homedepot. The sides and stretchers are also SYP. I picked through the pile they had and found several that were nearly quarter sawn and had real tight growth rings. It is kinda big for my shop, but better to much than not enough….........Maybe.

it is 96” x 30”

yeah it does weigh a lot, but being so long it makes for a lot of leverage, just have to slide one end at a time around.

Made this table to go with my Morris chair. Its short enough to compliment the chair and its a checkerboard too. Made from red oak.

I watched the retro new yankee workshop this past Friday, and since I had a couple of pieces of walnut that had been sitting in the rack for a long time. Not really enough to do a lot with, but just enough for the end table. Not sure if the shakers ever used walnut, but thats what I had.

I built several of these a couple of years ago. I found the original online and really was intrigued. However as hard as I looked I couldn’t find the secret of how it worked, I even tried to look at the patten papers that were filed on the Governments patten site, but they were blocked. After a few days of bouncing ideas around in my head I finally figured out a way to make it work.
My idea was to have a flexible door that would hold the candy in until it was pushed through the door. In the back were the candy comes out, but hidden on the inside, is a piece of plastic cut from a milk jug. It is very flexible, but being only an inch or two long, it has plenty of support to hold the candy in. The Head pivots at the top and back. When the head is pivoted up it pulls a piece of wood forward, the candy then falls into the area the piece of wood once was. The head is connected to the piece of wood with a string. Sprider-wire works great for this, any flats fisherman will know what that is. Then when the head is lowered it pushes the piece of wood back and in doing so it pushes the candy through the door. One side of the body is used to glue all the various pieces to, the other side is held on with screws so the insides can be accessed. The screws are hidden under the legs, and the legs are held on with dowel pins. Under the back leg is as large a hole as can be made and still hidden by the leg. Thats where the candy is refilled to. The original “poop moose” was made by a fellow in Alaska, But he no longer makes them.
A while back I found one at the salvation army store in Tampa, and I was able to see how the original was made. It had a piece of plastic that covered the back door and ran all the way to the head. The head going up and down would pull the plastic away from or cover up the hole. So my back engineering wasn’t even close to the original. But I think the one I made is just as good plus it always meters out a set amount of candy. The original relied on gravity do dispense the candy and a lot could come out at once if it was small and round.
I made 3 or 4 moose, a horse, and a long horned steer, and I am thinking about making a rabbit.. They make great gifts. But a word of warning, most guys think its hilarious but only a small percentage of the gals get the humor in it.