Not much of a wood project, but it sure was fun. My granddaughter was coming to visit and we wanted to throw an early b-day party since we wouldn’t see her on the actual day which BTW is today. Anyway we put this all together so fast and realized that we really didn’t have any money left over for a present, given the fact that me and the wife don’t have full time jobs (wow the economy sucks). So 5 days b4 she is supposed to get here for her party we decide to take my sons old wagon and refurb it. We had been talking about it for some time but never got serious.

I ended up getting some actual paying work the same week so it made even less time to finish this (jeez can’t a guy catch a break LOL). Ok so the 3rd pic is after i spent a couple of hours pulling all the rusted pieces apart. Now i’m a wood worker not a metal man so after i did this i tried sandblasting and that didn’t seem to work so i pulled out the angle grinder with the wire brush. Mann i’m just not good at metal work oh well I guess i know my place in life hee hee.

The second pic is after all that and now its the base coats of paint. First pic is all done, the wife sewed a pillow to let our sweet little princess sit in style, and of course the last pic is the b-day girl loving her new ride.

Hope you enjoy and have a great day… Doug

These are what I call my economic drums.

Me and my boy wanted to do a project together and he is really into music. We tried flutes first and they didn’t turn out so well. Thats when I found these, WOW I never even heard of them before. The sounds they make are so beautiful. Since he is 10 years old I wanted to make something we could finish fairly quick (10yr olds attention span not very long LOL). Also if it didn’t turn out I didn’t want to wast a lot of wood sooooo thats where the economic idea came to be. We made are first two which aren’t pictured here and they were so fun I decided to make a bunch more and see how they sell.

The tops are all solid wood from cherry to walnut. The box is made from whatever sheet material I had on hand. As far as sound I like the boxes that were made of cabinet grade plywood, but the regular plywood and MDF ones sound good too. I probably won’t make any more out of particle board, the sound isn’t as nice as the rest. I’ll post the solid wood one I made later on after I get it finished.

The big ones are 18” long by 7” by 7” there is 6 tongues each 1” shorter then the last. Top is made from solid wood, sides range from 3/4” ply to 3/4” MDF, the bottom is 1/4” ply to bounce the sound around. The front of the boxes have various shapes and sizes sound holes. After I put the finish on the wood tops (1lb cut shellac) I masked it off and painted the base coat, then masked it again and used exacto knife to cut out the patterns and paint the final design. Ok so all the traditional tongue drummers out there probably won’t like these but the sounds are so cool that they could get someone into it for a small amount of $$ then when their hooked they can get the nice solid wood drum hee hee.

The base drums are 16”x7”x7” and have 3 tongues, and the tweeters are 12”x7”x7” with 3 tongues. Otherwise they are made the same as the main ones.

Oh yeah there not pictured but the drum sticks are just dowels with super balls glued on the end, and they don’t seem to stay on very long before I have to reglue them. I’ve asked around and it seems to be a well kept secret as to what adhesive would work. The longest hold time i’ve found so far is liquid nails. Silcon doesn’t last long at all. If anyone has any ideas that would be great..

Hope you all enjoy, and have a great day… Doug

This is my second in the blade series that i hope to add to over the years. I’m planning on selling this one and probably the knife I made previously.

Its about 14” long, handle is made from black walnut, blade is red oak with some kind of hard wood dowels (not sure what, just said hard wood dowel LOL) Stand is made out of MDF then painted. The glass inlay in the blade is a mix of fused glass that I had to run through the kiln a couple of times and then do quite a bit of cold work to get it to fit how i wanted it too. The glass in the handle is also fused glass but it has a bit of dichroic glass to give it a bit more flare.

I used my bandsaw, drill press sander, stationary sander, dremil, table saw, rasp, and lots of sandpaper to carve and shape the piece.

Well hope you like it, have a great day…

I was looking through some old directories on the computer and found these. I think i might try making some of this again.

The table is cherry and walnut stained with water base mandarin orange

Little clocks are all just scrap wood sandwiched together with a inexpensive clock movement.

Ornaments are all put together in a layered log kind of thing then sliced off with the bandsaw.

Jewelry boxes have two pieces of wood cut on band saw to give the yin yan look.

Anyway enjoy and have a great day…

Man i dig clocks…

This is a very simple design for what i call a granny clock (much smaller then grandfather and can hang on the wall).

They are 5” deep by about 24” tall and 8” wide, the first two pics are cherry with a textured oak leaf glass, the third is also oak leaf glass with mahogany. When i made the mahogany one i had a sample clock face made from plastic and just slapped it on there and i really didn’t like it but thats how we learn. The brass one on the cherry clock looks much more refined hee hee.

I made about half a dozen of these and sold them at various shows but the cherry one is in my garage as of last week because it fell off the wall at my wifes office and i’m going to have to do some mending. Hmmmmmmmm maybe i’ll jump out there and make some more…

Finished it up with my own version of the french polish (shellac and poly) and presto done.

One of these days i’ll do a full size grandfather i just have to get up the nerve.

Anyway enjoy, any crits are very welcome.. Have a great day Doug

Well this is something that i had in my head for years and last summer i finally pulled it out, (it didn’t hurt too much LOL)

The handle and blade guard are lacewood, the blade is a really cool mineralized piece of cherry, the stand was just 1/2” mdf painted. Then i took a couple of small chunks of glass from my kiln and inset them in. All was finished my usual way. 2-3 coats of brush on 1lb cut shelac then 2-3 coats of wipe on poly. Of course sanded in between each coat.

oh yeah the gargoyle thing was carved with my dremal outta cypress then some inset dichroic eyes. Painted with same paint as the stand.

Anyway hope you like it, let me know either way…

And have a great day…............ Dug

This was a complicated design. The client really knew what he wanted and what that was, was a lot LOL. Getting everything he wanted crammed into the space was the biggest trick of all. The TV, stereo, DVD player, CD/DVD holders, PC, bass speakers, etc. etc. all had to fit. I did good for the most part until install day when i got it there and the full extension drawers wouldn’t open up on the bottom boxes. After installing the rest i spent the next couple days finding new hardware so i wouldn’t have to redo the 3 boxes. Oh well thats how it goes, they say you are only a good woodworker if you can do a good job at hiding your mistakes hee hee.

Anyway Raised panel hickory cabinets. Pull out and swivel TV, fixed glass shelves, pull out shelves for electronics, full extension pull out drawers for CD/DVDs, pull out tray for PC box to sit on, speaker fabric covered for bass speaker, lites recessed in the top compartments are wired into the base of the swivel under the TV with the touch activated dimmer.

I really dig hickory but i don’t think i’ll do another big project with it again too many broken bits, to many blade sharpening bills LOL.

The finish is my adapted french polish, basically 3-5 coats of brush on 1lb cut shellac, then 2-4 coats of wipe on poly. Its easy and fool proof.

Hope you all like, have a great day….............Dug

This was a commission piece the client had a old door that came out of our state capitol and she wanted to make a photo layout table with it. So this is what i came up with. The door was huge so i trimmed it down to 3ft x 6ft, then wrapped the edges with birds eye maple. The legs are 4×4 pine with long notches cut out and then put back in after the main leg was stained (while the pieces put back in stayed unstained). The bottom is just a really cool figured birch plywood. Add some casters and done.

Hope you like… and thanks for looking…. Doug

Some of the desk clocks i’ve made. The little square one is from a set of 45 that i made as gifts for the northwest regional ski team, they were given at the end of tournament.

A mass production kind of clock all three i made several of for different craft shows.

Anyway hope you like, have a great day…........Doug

These are a couple of my older boxes made from scraps.. Let me know what ya think…

Dug