Here are a few boards and a cross (pardon the dramatic lighting…it was there, I couldn’t help it!)

Boards are Walnut, Maple, Bloodwood and Purpleheart. These were all orders from friends and family.

The cross was a gift for a baptism. Walnut and Bloodwood. I did another cross that I forgot to take a pic of before I gave it as a gift…oh well!

Hope you like…

Greg

Mahogany with Paduk humidor. I am only an occasional cigar smoker…5-6 times a year, mostly on vacation or visiting friends for the weekend. So I have no need for a humidor to keep a large “inventory” of cigars fresh all the time…but I do like specific brands and don’t always trust that I can find them wherever it is we go. So…here is my answer for a small capacity humidor that I can easily take with me. For humidification when I’m using it as a humidor I am going to use the Boveda humidity pouches.

The compartment on the right is for matches, cutter, etc. It is separated from the cigar compartment by 1/4 mahogany that extends into a dado in the frame and seals against the top pretty tight. It should keep the air in the two compartment pretty well separated…I think. That is the plan anyway! It is helped closed by rare earth magnets. I used small screws as the “steel” for the catch. This allowed me to tweak the strength of the closure by threading the screw in and out to adjust the distance between it and the magnet. It worked quite well.

Thanks to everyone who gave me input during the build…especially when one of the paduk spines blew out during trimming on the router…I got it fixed and now I can’t figure out which corner it was…thanks for the suggestions that made that work.

9.75” x 5.75” x 3.125”

Hope you like it…

Greg

My sister-in-law asked for a box to hold 3×5 note cards…and here it is. Pretty straight forward. Cherry and Walnut. The bottom is .5” cherry also…but from a different board than the sides. When I picked out that board I thought it was going to come close in color to the cherry I used for the sides (which I didn’t have with me at the time ;(. It is a pretty board, just didn’t match like I hoped. Oh well.

The walnut pegs are to adjust the “support” as the stack of note cards increases. I included a few extra pegs for good measure.

12.5” x 6.5” x 3”

Thanks for looking. All comments welcome!

Greg

A cuttingboard…sort of. I’m not going to cut on it! This is the American Flag as it was at the start of the civil war, 35 stars. This is a gift for my sister and brother-in-law who are civil war buffs. The proportions are to scale, give or take 1/8”. Maple, bloodwood and walnut. Stars are maple. 20” x 10.625” x 1.25”

This was a 3 step glue up:
First the walnut was glued, the stars placed and installed, and the right side jointed.
Then the 7 stripes to the right of the walnut were glued up on their own and the left side jointed to mate with the walnut.
Then these 2 sections were glued up with the rest of the stripes.

Planed on my router jig, sanded to 400, an identical chamfer put on both sides and finished with danish oil, sanded with 800 and then wipe on poly…obviously not meant for use as a cuttingboard.

This was a fun one to see come together. I kind of hate to give it away! :)

Thanks for looking.

My wife and I were asked to be God Parents to my wife’s best friend’s daughter. I made this simple cross for Makayla. We signed her name and baptism date on the back.

Walnut and Purpleheart. Finished with Danish Oil. 8” tall by 5” wide.

My first box! A recipe box for my wife. Maple and Bloodwood. It was a bit of a long process…about 5 weeks…I only have a few hours at a time. Built for 4×6 cards with room to move. Stock was planed down from 7/8” to 1/2”. Lining the inside of the window with bloodwood came out pretty good actually and was a fun process. The lid fit up ok and laid flush for about a day…then warped significantly, then returned to only slightly warped. The front right edge does not lay flat. Suggestions on the lid? I didn’t mortise the hinges because I just wanted to get this one done. I’ll tackle better hinge installation on the next one. Finished with danish oil.

Question: I attached the lid before I applied the danish oil to the entire box…should I have done oil first? I was worried about having to message the lid to get a nice fit and figured I would want to do that without the finish on…

I also want to add a chain to the lid to keep it from going back all the way…just haven’t found a chain yet.

I learned some valuable lessons regarding tearout and the orientation of the grain during routing, applying an oil finish and got lots of experience squaring corners in the joints and window.

Critiques welcome…lay it on me!

Thanks for looking.

I’m on the bandwagon! My first attempt at cutting boards. Wood is Maple, Walnut, Cherry and Purpleheart. I flattened them with the router jig…which worked great! I fought some tearout when routing the edges…which I am quite sure is my technique…working on that! When they were finished but before routing the edges I really liked the squared off look they had. So I went with the chamfered edges instead of rounding them over.

The 3 with purple heart in them are finished with mineral oil. The other three are finished with Good Stuff maple butcher block finish from the Michigan Maple Block Co. I was experimenting with the two options. Mineral oil wins…as I should have known it would. But I love the Good Stuff finish for a general purpose clear finish.

Hope you like.

Inspired by oldskoolmodder’s “Router Thickness “Planer” on the Cheap”, I did this so I could flatten cutting boards but I suspect it will come in handy for many other applications. Pretty simple concept. It took a little tweaking to get the rails level but a few pieces of electrical tape leveled it out quite well. The base is 3/4 ply. The vertical walls and frame for the rails are oak. Rails are steel angle I found in the back of the warehouse at work! I still need to take a cutoff wheel to the screws protruding from the rails. You’d think I would have done that after the first time I caught my finger on them…but the excitement of getting the jig to work kind of took over! I’ll post the cutting boards in a few days.

Thanks for looking!