This lumber rack desperately needed to be painted. Because 90% of the wood on this project is on it’s third go-around. (used to be a shelving unit for hardware and before that it was a work/miter saw bench). And I had to get rid of some old spray cans of paint. So of course I didn’t have enough paint to finish.

My garage is 24’ X 21’ but I only have about 14’ X 21’ to use as a shop. So being limited on space I had to get rid of the steel drum of clamps, the two trash cans & three small buckets of scrap wood that I keep kicking around. as well as all the full size lumber standing up at the back of the shop.
So along with the lumber rack I incorporated a bar clamp rack and a fold down glue up table.
The size is 6’ long X 5’ tall X 32” wide. And on casters. The fold up table is 6 1/2’ by 5 foot. Made from two sliding closet doors. The cardboard tubes I use to put strips of inlay, dowels and strips of wood of different lengths. It holds all my exotic wood scraps as well as the full size boards. And of course it holds plywood.

The red paint lines are at pre-measured heights for a quick glance for the right size piece that I may I need.
In the third pic you’ll see that I added pegboard, I needed a place to put my veneer away from the other wood that could damage the veneer.

With it all loaded up it looks oversized but it’s takes up only about half the space. It also lookin like I maybe changing the rack for the clamps at a later date. But for right now this is a done project. Because I got ten . . .that’s 10 birthday gifts and I don’t know how many Christmas presents to get done in the next couple of months.
Any comments or suggestions is always welcome.

I had this design in my head for quite some time and when the garden Bench contest came along I knew this was my next project. But the “next project” was the first mistake, I should have dropped everything and started it. My wife and I went on a two week planed vacation. And my second mistake was not knowing my new laptop well enough (actually window vista). And I literally had minutes left to put it on Lumberjocks when I had trouble cropping and uploading the pictures. Oh well, better luck next time.
At lest now my wife and her mom have a place to sit out in the back yard together and watch the humming birds.

Made of Redwood, Alaskan White Cedar with just a touch of Greene and Greene style. I didn’t have enough redwood or Alaskan White Cedar so I combined them. I also wanted to put more Greene & Greene style into it but had no time.
Over all length = 7’8”
Bench (between arm rest) = 4’2”
Height = 6’
I put a water sealant on it. Any advice on any other finish would be welcomed.

My wife says that I would have gotten in the top ten. But most wives would say that …right ?
Well I love my wife. But fellow Lumber Jocks I are the best critics.
What do you think ?

I needed to make a small dinning table for my Daughter’s tiny apartment. Aprox. 43” X 43” (The table not the apartment)
My daughter wanted it all stained black to match some of her decor. So using my own stock to save a few $$ I used Poplar for the legs & apron. and Birch for the top. But after seeing how good the top came out I just couldn’t put a black stain on it. She was ok with that but after I had put a finish on it she called me back up and told me she really really wanted it all black. So my next posting will be an identical table but all black.
And I’ll make this one my card/game table to put in my office.

I used an Espresso water based stain from General Finishes and a wipe on poly.

I welcome any and all comments / opinions /advice Good or Bad

My wife is an Mother Advisor with the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls ( I.O.R.G.) here in Calif.
A nonprofit organization for girls 11 to 20 years of age. www.gorainbow.org
So a couple of years back they were having an O.V. ( Official Visit ) one of many functions though out the year. And this one had a Chinese theme. So my wife volunteered me (something she dose a lot) to make the Arbors.

Knowing that this was a one time use. I didn’t want to spend a lot. So I got out some old Douglas Fir, 1×4’s and 1×6’s that was given to me when the lumber company I worked at went out of business. ( I was given some other stuff too, more on that another day).
A ¼ of it was good, another ¼ had some dry rot but usable, and ½ was …well …fire wood. (I don’t complain about any thing that’s free even fire wood)
So a little ripping, a little sawing and lot of sanding. I connected it all with a staple gun and some extra drywall screws that I also got free from the lumber company. And then of course a lot of red paint.
The size of these if I remember right was about 4’ wide by 2 ½’ deep and aprox 8 ½’ high.
It didn’t look to bad from a distant but you get within a couple of feet and you can tell that the wood was not of good quality.
After it was over someone donated $50.00 for two of them. Go figure

I made this shot glass shelf for a young friend of mine. It’s made with bloodwood and pine. it is 32” tall by 10” wide.

When I went online looking for ideals all I found was big boxes with little cubby holes that you hang on the wall.
Well I decided to step out of the box (sorry) and make something that can also be used for things of different sizes and shapes.
As I did with the Quilt Rack (first project posted) that I made….I look online and they are all pretty much the same basic patterns.
I was never one to follow others when I do my projects. and I can never keep to the plan, It will ! change a couple of times be for it’s done.

I made this for my daughter when she became Grand Love in a nonprofit organization called International Order of the Rainbow for Girls.

This is my 5th. Quilt rack, I usually do them in a weekend but this one I had to do 15 to 30 min. at a time every couple of days because my daughter was not supposed to know I was making it and around here I cant just lock myself in the shop. So with that and starting a stain glass class, steam bending the Maple it took three months. (I took the class three months ahead of the target date to give me time to get it all together. and it still was to close).

I used Blood wood and Birdseye Maple. I used steam to bend the Birdseye Maple. I used minwax Water-Based Polycrylic for the finish.
This was not my first choice for a finish but I was down to a few days and I new I could rely on this to be dry in time. I have had good results in the past with finish.

One problem that I did have was the very fine sawdust from the Blood wood would imbed itself into the Maple. So I had to go back over the Maple being careful not to sand the Blood wood.