I made these stoppers for fellow jock Blackcherry. Wood is Macassar ebony, spalted sycamore, spalted buckeye burl. Thanks for looking.

I built this collapsible camp chair recently. It was a project that I started way back in September but for one reason or another it got back burnered. When I finished my workbench I was able to get back to finishing it up. I was a little intimidated by the leather work, I need not have worried, that part went very smoothly and was not hard at all. In fact I enjoyed it quite a bit. I may try to incorporate some leather in future projects. I used poplar for the legs and ash for the other parts, stained w/ General finishes Warm Cherry and Outdoor Oil topcoat. Thanks for looking.

Here is my finished Roubo. I used Bencrafted vises and Amos Tucker holdfasts. I have been working on this off and on for 5 months. It was a great experience and I had many problems to solve and lots of hard work. I am so glad that I tackled it, because now I have a firm platform to build from. It is a major improvement from my old one and I’m really excited about how it turned out and looking forward to using for many more years. I used many different woods. The top is ash and poplar and red elm. The legs are ash, the vise chop and board jack is white oak. Thanks for looking. If you want more detail here is a link to my blog.

I made this boxed set for the LJ marking knife and awl swap. The wood is spalted maple that I stabilized and turned. The ferrules are copper tubing. The steel for the awl started out in life as a spade bit and the blade of the marking knife is from a piece of O1 tool steel I had laying around. The box is poplar w/ a mahogany lid. I sent it to ShaneA and I hope that he enjoys using them as much as I enjoyed making them. This was a very fun project and knowing that it was going to a fellow LJ I wanted to step up my game a bit. I think that is the real benefit of participating in these swaps. Thanks for looking.

I have been inspired by coffee scoops posted by fellow LJ’s, so I thought I better try my hand at it. Here my first attempt, I needed a gift on short notice and this fills the bill nicely. Wood is mahogany, rosewood and white oak. Thanks for looking.

This is my attempt to navigate the perils and pitfalls of Valentines Day. I hope my fabulous girlfriend likes it. I totally stole the idea from scrollergirl, here. After looking at scrollergirl’s videos I thought to myself that this would be a better lathe project than scrollsaw project. Maybe that’s just because I have a lathe but not a scrollsaw. While this was a simple project there were some challenges like putting the saw cuts around the base to simulate the indentations on a cupcake. I had to build a jig to be able to present the base to the bandsaw blade to make the vertical cuts. It is quite simple but quite a mind bender to conceive it. The related challenge was then how space the cuts equi-distant around the base. I resorted to CAD and drew a circle and divided into 24 equal parts, 15°. Then I printed it and pasted it to the top of the base then I could make each cut and know the spacing would be correct. The sprinkles were way more time consuming than you would think. I actually had to hand plane 1/16”x 1/16” cross section piece of walnut then chop them w/ a chisel and they wanted to shoot across my shop never to be seen again. I killed pretty much most of a day on this little box. We’ll see next week if it was worth it.

I have been making a few awl’s and and a marking knife when I get time from some of my other ongoing projects. I used spade bits for the knife and awl’s. I have also been experimenting with wood stabilizing and the sycamore and buckeye handled awls are stabilized. Thanks for looking.

This is a carving mallet I made for fellow LJ, Blackcherry. He swapped me one of his beautiful bandsaw boxes for it. I gave the box to my granddaughter for Christmas. The wood is maple and purpleheart.

This awl started out in life as a spade bit. I cut the blade off and made the awl from the shank. I like this method because the bits are high speed steel and require no hardening or tempering, that is if you don’t burn it on the grinder. I have made several of these over the years, but this is my best one so far. The wood is Bocote and I found out I’m allergic to it, too bad ‘cause I really like it. The ferule is a gas fitting. It will be a gift to my good friend. I put a flat spot on one side so it doesn’t roll. The thing is sharp and would put a nice hole in your foot if it rolled off, ouch!

This a small cabinet I made my girlfriend for Christmas. It will fit in well at her cabin on the lake where she could use more storage. The plans are Woodsmith. I used poplar and MDF. The finish is Milkpaint w/ a top coat of Arm R Seal. Stub tenon and groove joinery for the panels.

A couple of Christmas gifts. This is a new style for me, adding fair curves to the edges. I used a Spanish windlass and a spline to draw the curves. Maple, padauk, purpleheart and rosewood.

Here is a mallet I made yesterday. I recently acquired a lathe and I am having a lot of fun learning woodturning. The wood is Bolivian rosewood and maple. I left a little inclusion of sapwood to act character. I’m hoping that in use it will be able to deliver gentle persuasion or major wallop as needed, perhaps intimidating chisels to their task just by reaching for it, lol, ;).

This is my latest cutting board. I’m shipping to my daughter in AK tomorrow for her upcoming birthday. Wood is maple, purpleheart and cherry. I made this like I do most of them quartersawn maple with accent strips and a pegged spline on each end.

Just a couple of small items for the shop. First a ZCI with splitter. I’ve needed a ZCI w/ splitter for a while now as I’ve pretty much made the switch to thin kerf blades. The other item is a file handle. I have a lot of files and most of them need handles. As a newbie wood turner this is a great opportunity to experiment and learn how to make handles and to see and feel a bunch of different shapes.

This is a little scratch awl I made from some 3/16” steel rod from the BORG and a scrap of zebra wood and a gas fitting. First I ground a point on the rod then I hardened and tempered it. Then I turned the handle and added the gas fitting. I got a little help from fellow lumberjocks about how to remove the wrench lugs on the gas fitting on the lathe. Then I put the steel point in the handle w/ some epoxy and polished it all up. Looks and works great. I am very much a newbie woodturner and this is my first tool handle.

This is a step stool I made from some really rough construction grade plywood. I needed a step stool for the shop and even more I needed to get rid of some old plywood I have laying around getting in my way. The plywood was so rough I only sanded to 100 grit and gave it a coat of BLO/varnish mix and called it good. Once in a while it is fun to slap something together quickly that is functional and let the aesthetics slide. I won’t care if it gets paint slopped on it or if it gets treated roughly, cost was about zero.

This a tea box from a recent issue of Pop WW, by Bob Lang. I’m not going to put tea in it though. I restored a nice little Stanley 60 1/2 block plane, and put a Hock iron in it. I’m going to put it in the box and give it to a good friend for Christmas. He likes to build boats but has an atrocious couple of planes. Nice little project, I’ll probably make a few more of these for presents.

I made this till to add some more organization to my shop. I haven’t had any place to put my jointer #7 except on the workbench and I was afraid someday I might knock it off onto the concrete floor of my garage shop. I also recently acquired some Japanese saws and they needed a home too. So designed this till and cut the dovetails w/ the razor dovetail saw. This is my first attempt at using these type of saws for joinery and it won’t be my last as I really like the way they cut w/ a super thin kerf, very fast cutting too. The price isn’t bad either compared to western joinery saws. I used pine for the box and oak for the back of the plane till and luan plywood for the back. I’m not the best at hand cutting dovetails, but I like to practice on shop furniture. Thanks for looking.

I built this simple Japanese tool box to set up for my traveling tools. My girlfriend has 3 houses and I’m always being called on to fix something or another at each of them. She has an atrocious set of tools, not even a Phillips screw driver could be found at one house. Currently I’m hauling things around in a plastic bucket. This is a big step up from that. This was a very easy project, simple butt joints and nails. I used cut nails. The lid has a unique locking feature that is so simple but works like a charm w/o any hardware. Built in handles on the ends are another feature that is built right in. I finished it with a simple 1/3 BLO, 1/3 spar varnish, 1/3 mineral spirits mix. The plans are available online here.

This is a gardener’s bench that I made for my mother. She is well into her eighties and still likes to garden. This bench is designed to sit on or you can flip it over and kneel on it. I got the plan from Wood Magazine. The wood is redwood. Simple glue and screw construction, no joinery other than a dado.