French Doorstops

nice work and contribution ;-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Nice little project. Thank you for the “How To” also.

Great Auction item.

Glad your leg is better.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

A very nice project and I too thank you for the how to info.

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Those are cool. They would make great gifts.

I have a question though, wouldn’t the knob stick out too far so someone walking through the door might kick it by accident?

Bothus

-- Professional kitchen designer, amature woodworker.

Don’t know about that. The knob is about 1.25” or about 3.2 cm, which is probably about the same amount the doorknob is sticking out. So the person who runs into one will probably kick the other. Another project I’ve done along the same lines is to start with a block that isn’t square, but rectangular (say 1.25” thick but about 3” wide). I then turn the knobs, cut on the diagonal, and then use a router and a quickly-made plywood template to hog out the central portion of the bevel, thereby making a pair of scoops.

-- SteveL

Very nice door stops

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Nice looking stops and for a great cause.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

First of all I really like the stops and secondly , your trademark is awesome : ) It is freehanded isn’t it ?

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Why thank you! As a kid, my dad gave me a woodburning kit and I learned to do it “freehand” as you say. The “maker’s mark” is based on a stylized script version of my initials (SL) made to look like a whale’s tail as he dives—at least that’s what I hope it looks like :-)

-- SteveL

Ahhhh ….now I see the S L in the whale tail…excellent : ) Yes , I assumed it was a Whale Tail when I first saw it.

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

1. how’s the leg?
2. these are wonderful!
3. the woodburning is as skilled as the rest! Nicely done.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

love the logo! and thanks for the how-to, (and added bit about the scoops!) I was going to ask if they were done this way, rather than just turn one side and cut off the extra diagonal bit. Much more efficient this way.

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