2) 20 gun display rotisseries. They measure 30 inches diagonal at the base. Base is attached to a 1000 lb steel roller bearing lazy susan. The post extension is 3/4 inch pipe with flange brackets on both ends.

Made the pattern with 1/4 inch plywood and then used the router to cut out the 3/4 oak ven. ply.

The base cabinet has a solid Red Oak top measuring just over 10 ft long and 31 inches deep. 6 eighteen inch deep drawers have full extension steel roller slides. Drawer base is made in two sections.

Finish color is called Mission, applied at a local furniture shop.

It’s showed unassembled and ready for shipment to someone with a lot of guns.

Sorry for the nice stretch wrap in the pictures. Was not going to mention the base but they were in the pictures.

Friends of the family came back from Hawaii with a piece of Koa fire wood.
I sliced it up and let it air dry. It ended up making (7) 3/4 inch X 2 inch x 10 inch pieces. A year went by quickly because I didn’t know what to do with it. They wanted something to be made from it but also wasn’t sure what. Here it is after all of that waiting. Approx. 25” x 20” inches square and 19” tall. Only have a handful of 1×1 inch x 1/4 inch pieces left.

Koa, Purple Heart, Hard Maple. Legs and frame are Brazilian Cherry.

Tried to match the apron with the weave pattern. It’s close.

Sanding sealer and clearcoat finish.

Style, rails, pole and top are made from Grey Elm stained in a medium brown.

The Glue up designs were made from Maple and Walnut and clear coated.

Glue ups were not difficult. Just stack a pair of boards that contrast in color, tape them together and run them through one direction (RIP) in the band saw. Switch pieces in the stack, reglue them together. sand them flat. Tape them together again rotate a quarter turn (Crosscut). Back through the band saw, switch pieces in the stack, glue them back up and ready for sanding.

Built this for a neighbor that doesn’t have electricity.

No solar power charger on this one…..yet.

A patch work bed made from Oak. The raised panels are cherry and walnut.
I stood back when the raised panels went through the shaper thinking it may go flying apart.
All went well. Pocket hole joinery was used to assemble the head and footboard.
Thanks to a page out of Mary Ann’s blog to make the glue up on the headboard.

Isabella grew out of her little bed and into this one just in time to make room for a new sister!

Olivia Rose was born last night. Everyone is doing well!

What to do with all of those glue up boards lying around?

A lot of cutting board projects were laying around and not wanting to make wall hangings out of them, I came up with this.

The base is made with accessable raised panel inserts. I can change with different patterns if I make another that I would like to display later.

It’s 12 volt operated, so when we lose power we won’t be relying on 50 candles burning in the house.
It’s on wheel casters and can be moved easily from one area to another.

The center post is made from brazilian cherry and maple, the top and fronts were posted last year.

This project was for Debbie.

This is my third and best attemp at Martyn’s Impossible.
Follow his blog for the assembly process.

Clamp and glue up is accomplished with the help of my Wife, Debbie.

I have rounded over the edges of the final assembly to use as a table top.
The wood is Maple, Walnut and Cherry and measures approx 20 inches square.

I wiped it down with Canola oil for the pictures. It will get a clear coat after a table base is made.

All of the wood is from scrap cut offs from a local stair manufacturer.

Thanks to Mary Ann for the idea for first one.
Made from Cherry, Walnut, Maple and Purpleheart.

The second board is Not so strange and easier on the eyes.
Made from cherry, maple, walnut and some other strange wood (Afromazia?) not sure.

The first two boards have been sanded but not been finished. Can’t finish until they become something.

The last is the top of the table from a previous post Martyin inspired with a $12 finish.
I guessed it to be $15, I am satisfied with the savings.

All made from scrap wood from a local stair and chair shop.

I glued Brazilian Cherry and Cherry together in strips, sanded and cut them to equal lengths with a 30deg. cut on the ends. Also cut some into triangles.
Took them in the house for me and my wife to play with before coming up with the one we glued up.
Finish sanded to 180 grit.

Sharing with you the other examples, Feel free to make one.

I will not apply a finish until I know what to do with it.

Hope you like it.

I modified the blocks to be all triangles. I used Maple, Walnut, Cherry and Oak.

Actually made a sled for my table saw to cut these with instead of using the miter saw.
I would cut for a half hour and then dry fit for a half hour.

Three hours later I had enough blocks.

Next was the glue up, and with Debbie’s help other than the first two rows it went well.
Tried to be pay attention to the grain pattern.

Ran it through the drum sander and filled in a few small voids.

Cut it out to a rectangle approx. 12” X 16”
Glued oak ends on and clamped for an hour.

Cut it to size … again through the table saw.

Glued on the other two ends and clamped it tight over night.

Made some 17 inch long legs and kreg screwed it together.

A final sanding before sending it to the finish shop.

Special Thanks to Martyn for the vision.

My Daughter, Jen, asked for a playhouse for her daughter’s 2nd birthday.
Well surprised she will be when we deliver it Thursday, a few months early…. but who cares.

The little girl in the play house is my other grand daughter, Chloe. She was over last night testing it out for her cousin Isabella.

The picture of the two girls are my grand daughters… Isabella on the left, Chloe on the right.

It’s great being a Grandpa.

The toughest part will be getting it over their back yard fence and setting it in place.

Pizza for everyone that shows up to assist….Let’s shoot for 5:15.

With all of the cutting board designs being posted it gave me the thought to give it a try.
No jigs, Just a table saw and a miter saw.
Made all of the blocks the same size or so I thought.
Glueing and clamp up was crazy.
Started glueing a row and then thought it may be easier to do in blocks of three.
Well did I say anything about remembering to keep the grains running the same…
Thought I did until all of my blocks of three were being set in place.
Oh no, Gaps. things were not going well.
Thought this will be a learning session for sure. A little putty here and there.
Great…...it doesn’t match either.
Thought I wouldn’t show to anyone and my wife and family wouldn’t know.
I took it in the house thinking what could I do with it.
Can’t scrap it.
Went back out to the shop and found enough Elm to make a base for a small table.

The block board is made from Cherry, Maple and Walnut trimmed in Walnut.
The base is Elm with Walnut stain.
Well the base turned out ok.

I brushed it on, wiped it down and applied two coats of semi gloss.

Maybe I will sand down the top and try matching the filler better.

Built a Full sized bed for my Grand-daughter Chloe she is 2 and one for my Nephew Caden almost 3.
The beds are the same design. One has the raised panel exposed the other is reversed.
Wooden side rails are 5 1/2 ” and have steel hardware to support the wooden frame and slats.

I foresee alot of jumping in the future.

Here are the completed pictures from my last posting.
The Elm is amazing.
Built this with intensions of selling it.
My first dresser with inset drawers.
Brought it home from the finish shop Saturday.
The pictures are ok but the wood is so beautiful that I couldn’t sell it.
At least not yet.
This will probably end up in someones home with adoption papers :)

This is my first attempt with inset drawers.
I normally install my back panels before setting the drawers in. I had to take the back panel back off to get the gap aligned on the drawers.
I side mounted the slides.
I used an 1/8 inch round over bit to lightly cut the edge of the face frame.
Drawers are poplar and dove tailed with Elm fronts.
Used full extension slides.
This is headed to the finish shop tonight.
My camera is broken so I had my daughter take the pictures. Wanted to get it posted before finish was completed.

My design, not sure what it would be considered.

My son asked for a dresser for his wife for Christmas. The bed they purchased a few years ago was made from pine and stained sort of a medium dark color. I didn’t want to build out of pine so I went to the Amish lumber yard and asked what he had. Choices were Rustic Cherry, Cherry, Oak, Poplar, and Elm. Oak was out for this project and I am not that fond of cherry, poplar well,.. was poplar. Not seeing much on this site for Elm, was my choice. It was said that it was easy to work with and if you finish it the right color the wood grain would look like quail feathers. I was on vacation Deer hunting a would build this between hunts. It was easy to work with and sanded out nicely. No step by step pictures were taken during the build, remember I am still green at this and My shop is messy. One of these days I will have the patience and the camera in the shop. Well I completed it, took it to the finish shop to have it stained S-12 a medium brown. Picked it up a week later. Wow, was my response. Asked the finisher why builders don’t use Elm it was the same price as Oak. He said that it has a warping habit. I hope this doesn’t. After taking it home to put the pulls on it I decided to make a matching Chest of Drawers. I have since completed it and am waiting for the finisher to call that it is completed.
Tried to take some pictures of the grain. One is a drawer front and the other is the low top.

This was a head scratcher, My brother and I made this a year ago for his wife.
Went to a furniture store to get ideas on a Sleighbed design.
I didn’t notice that the headboards were a curved shape and the panel was not. (I pay much closer attention to detail now.)
Well, we routed a curve into the head and foot board post to accept the panel.
1/4 inch panel over that area looked too cheap. 1/2 inch was too hard to bend in shape. So we glued up two 1/4 inch panels bent, glued and clamped into position. We would get one end in and the other would pop out. After much frustration it finally went together.
Top rails on the foot board were made from 2X8 oak. Ripped several cuts almost through it, wet it down overnight and then glued and clamped it to get the curve shape. It split a little but nothing that couldn’t be touched up.

This will stay a one of a kind..
Only blotchy Picture I could find of it.

Built this to help clamp up my face frames.
Sliding verticle rail with 4 adjustable air clamps.
Just lay out, clamp and screw.

The right angle on the left and bottom also help when assembling my drawer boxes.

Have a Grandchild due in November. Gave me another reason to make saw dust.
This one I made the drawers with pocket hole screws and poplar.
The Pocket holes are covered with the drawer facing in the front.
The back of the drawer… well, no one looks there.
This will get finish sanded and the go to my Amish Buddy to spray on some S-2.

A very close friend of the family was happy to receive this for their new home.
Oak hutch with S-2 stain.
Split the panel in the middle to give it a different look.

I built this for My first Grand Daughter.
Not up to speed with drawer dovetails yet.
This one has Plywood drawers.

Seen where some are made with the Craig Jigs.
I will try that and some Poplar for My next Grand addition coming in November.