This is the paddle >;) It’s long grain and edge grain, made of Black Ash, Burr Oak, Cherry, Rock Maple, Red Oak & Walnut. Pretty much just scraps. It’s sealed with (just like all my other cutting boards) salad bowl finish and mineral spirts. I rubbed it out with steel wool and it’s smoother than a baby’s butt. :D :P :) lol

This was originally a HUGE board that my granddaughter designed. It was 13” wide by 18” long by 1 1/2” thick. It didn’t work out well because it was hard to glue up and ended up warping. So we remachined it and ended up with a pig. haha go figure right?!
It’s made of maple, black ash and walnut, and weighs just about a ton… or maybe more? jk lol

I found a trivet like this at my mother-in-laws house and thought “I can make this!” So I brought it home, looked at it, and looked at it … and looked at it somemore. After about two weeks of just looking at it my granddaughter and I figured out how to set up the router and proceded to make dust.
We used recycled maple (from the first furniture my wife and I purchased 44 years ago) burr oak and walnut.

These two different design variations of end grain snack food cutting boards are made from Maple, Cherry, Walnut and Black Ash (all grown locally.) Originally they were 8” x 10” rectangles and I cut them into an apple shape with a DeWalt scroll saw and sanded with the Flat Master... purchased in October from Stockroom Supply at the Wood Working Show in St. Paul, MN. They were finished with Salad Bowl Finish thined 50/50 with Mineral Spirts (As recommended by The Wood Whisper.)

The Galileo Thermometer is a unigue cylinder filled with coloful spheres that float. They meesure the correct temperature based on a fascinating scientific principal. In a Galileo Thermometer, the lowest floating sphere in the upper part of the cylinder tells the correct temperature.
To look at a Galileo Thermometer in this eye-catching handcragted Minnesota hardwood stand is to behold not only an instrument that tells the precise tempature, but also a work of beauty and art.

Odds and ends of many tile jobs (and a good friend who installs flooring) Plus a overflowing scrap box. Sloution to clean up is Trivets!

The Burr Oak makes this one solid heavy stool. Graet for children but sturdy enough for man or beast! : )

The wheel and the tree were colored with hot Rit Dye; the gold ornaments on the tree were made using gold glitter fingernail polish. Than sealed with tung oil, buffed on a wheel.

These Puzzle Patterns are from a book of twenty seven puzzle patterns (of which I made ten to fifteen of each) by Judy & Dave Peterson. They were cut from various hardwoods (Cheery, Burr Oak, Beech, Blk Walnut, and Maple ect.) The wood was run through a drum sander, than hand sanded to finish. Pattern was applied; covered clear packing tape & the cutting began. The next step was to round all the sawed edges with a 180 grit flap sander attached to a 1/4 horse motor (for this task I donned Kevlar gloves) and the dust flew. I used Clear Danish oil because it cures in thirty days, is waterproof and it’s non-toxic after it has dried. Important if it’s given to a child. I gave many of these to a local first grade class; I also sold many of them at a local church craft sale.