These are some of the carving knifes I make. They are made from old kitchen knifes, jig saw blades, store bought blades, and any thing else I can get to hold an edge. The handles are cherry and I made them to fit my hand so they are comfortable for me to use. Hope you enjoyed

Joey

These are two wands I carved for my grandkids who like to play Harry Potter. the only trouble is now half the kids in the neighborhood wants wands. Oh well at lease there outside playing again.

Joey

This is a carving mallet I made out of some easy found parts. You can read the whole story on my blog post Carving Mallet on the Cheap Hope you enjoy.

Joey

My grandson’s like to play Harry Potter with their grandma, true be told she like to play Harry Potter with her grandson’s lol, so I carved them some wands to play with my oldest grandson’s is the dragon and hers is the hummingbird and my littlest grandson has a wolf wand that I have not gotten any pictures of yet. I don’t know which gave me more joy carving the wands for them or watching them run around the house; I mean Hogwards zapping each other with them.
Joey

These are some of the crafts that my wife and I make. The recipe card holder was my idea because I mess up our recipe cards all the time when I cook, I guess I’m a messy cook, but my wife say it worth it because I’m also a good cook. I normally just copy the cards befor I cook then toss them in the trash when I’m done, I know not very green, so thats why I made the card holder it was my wifes idea to paint them then we just came with some designs, we are planning to do paper towel holders to match. the lamp was just some scrap and I build it for my daughter, Thanks for looking and I have a peaceful day
Joey @ The Sleepydog Woodshop

I made these remote holder because I was tire of our cat knocking our remotes off the tables at night, they seem to think they are play toys. We tried the cloth kind that hang over the arms of a chair, but my grandsons like to stick their candy in them and then we end up stick gunk all over the the end of the remote which is never good. I made several hoping to sell at the craft show we went to, we had a lot of people look at them but didn’t sell none. They are well made all dadoed and rabbited then glued and pinned, then finished with water base poly. I know its small but my wife loves and the best thing is all the remotes stay where they are suppose too.

This is the table I build in a week outside without a shop, in mostly bad weather using both power and hand tools and had a ball, If you want to read more check out my blog at Sleepydog Woodshop or if you want to see all the entries check out The Sawdust Chronicle's site. Thanks for looking. Joey

Folding Saw Stand
Some of you guys might know that I entered Rick Walter’s Design Challenge over at the Sawdust Chronicle’s. Well this was my first design and the prototype I build. it isn’t my entry but it was what help me come up with the design that I did enter. You can find more at my Blog at over at the Sawdust Chronicle's. Thanks for looking. Joey

Oven rack tool for the kitchen challenge CS1. This little tool is great if you bake a lot, I can slide the racks in and out of my oven now without burning my forearms.
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I build this because I like making my own tortillas and all I could find around here was press that made 5” tortillas. all of the wood and hinges are scrapes I had from other jobs the hinge pin is just that an old hinge pin from a door hinge I just peened it over. I designed this project a while ago you can read about how I designed it on my blog. I dovetailed the upright to give it more support and had cross pieces to help stabilize the wood for the press. they are glued in the center so everything can expand as it will without damage. I can wait to start making my own tortillas.
Joey

These are a few of my carvings after just two weeks in a beginning carving class with a seasoned carver and teacher Don Mertz. He teaches classes at the Dayton Woodcraft store and here at Wilmington College. He has a blog called Wood Bee Carvers has a lot of good information on it. You can also follow more of my progress at .Sleepydog Wood Shop along with some of my other projects.

Joey

This the first flute I have made with all handtools in a few years, I used pine with a rosewood bird. I carved the eagle head on the end and used a wood burner to do the feathers. to see the whole series on making a flute and a short video of pics and the flute being played by me check out my blog at http://sleepydogwoodworking.blogspot.com/
I plan on doing another series of how to make flute with woodworking machines next

Joey

I hate to throw any thing away even 2×4 scraps, so I made a couple of end grain cutting board out of them. this is just one. I think I will finish it with bees wax or walnut oil, I haven’t decided yet.

Joey

This is a scraper plane I made. it works great you can read more about it on my blog

http://sleepydogwoodworking.blogspot.com/

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This was a shop cabinet that I keep tools on in my old shop. My daughter ask if I could make here a cabinet for her living room out of it I really wanted to just build something new but for some darn reason she liked this set of shelves. Now it had been banged up, had oil on it, and who know what else in the year or so setting in the shop as you can see

I did little work on it. and l think it came it out pretty nice. I added some nice trim, made a top for it and did some art work of my grandkids on it, then scraped and sanded the whole thing. and used a glaze to help hide some of the scars then gave it a few coats of poly. The hardest part was working on the tiny porch of our apartment. and trying to do the finish work out there with the wind and the rain, well lets just stay mother nature must not want me to of put poly on this thing because every time I did she try to blow every thing she could right over stick to it. I guess she wanted me to use shellac.

This was a plant stand i build for a friend of my wife, out of some scrap oak I had from another job, I made the top so a 12” tile drops in and can be changed if the mood strikes her.

Joey

This is a a kids table and chairs that I found in the trash, I had to repair glue must of the legs back together, the finish was shot on it so I scraped the top and sanded all the legs lightly, glazed the chairs and the base and crackle painted the top then I did some stencil and some free hand painting on it, then when over the top with a few coats of poly. My daughter loves the way it looks and the grandsons love to use it.

Joey

This is a coffee cart I build for a lady who was starting a coffee business in the community college I went to. I was working in library and she needed help searching prices on the internet for a coffee cart, all the one that were offered were very expensive, and didn’t fit her needs, so I gave her same names of some cabinetmakers I knew, but they were all to busy or didn’t want to mess with it, but a couple asked why she didn’t get me to do it. at the time all my tools were in storage, and I had no plans on doing woodworking again. I just got though two operations on my back and was convinced in my mind my career as a woodworker was behind me. but she talked me into it so I build this cabinet and a smaller one for her. and my never did go back in storage.

Joey

This is a kitchen I did last year. the client had purchased a few cabinets from kraftmaid that was damaged but they all needed fixed, and done of the doors matched, so I used what I could build the rest of the cabinets and all the doors. she was very pleased. she had a estimated from HD for $9.000 just for the cabinets and I thing all said and done she got it build and installed for under $8,000 she provided me with all my wood and paid the labor that I asked so it was all good for me. I also did several build in for her and a couple of interior doors that she wanted stain glass installed in.

I needed a vanity for the house I rented and since my landlord was cheap I build this out of scrap 2×4 and bead board that was laying around the shop. I was giving solid surface top that was a display, so that is what set the shape of the whole vanity. the bathroom had a T&G ceiling and I used a tile to match the top a long with a dark gray 12×12 floor tile all in all it came out really nice and the only thing I bought was the shellac I used to finsh it with.

Joey