It’s been a while since I’ve posted but I made a doll’s bed for a friend’s daughter.

I was going to buy one but then I saw those prices on the American Girl doll site! It still needs a mattress but sewing is a whole different realm =p

The plans were found on Ana White’s blog but changed a few little things.

I made the picture using MDF which worked GREAT.

How I made it:
I scanned and printed the picture on card stock paper then used rubber cement for art to glue the picture to the MDF.
Then I made a puzzle outline on photoshop, and put that on another piece of MDF.
The 2 pieces of MDF were stacked on top of each other and held together with masking tape. This allowed the picture to be sandwiched safely.
Mat Medium can be used to seal the picture as a protective layer

I used MDF b/c it’s very easy to cut and doesn’t rip out.

I have 2 PDF files of the puzzle pieces if anyone wants it. One is 4×6” and has 24 pieces; the other is 5×7” and has 35 pieces. If you’d like the files please message me w/ an e-mail and I’ll send them =]

All the moms have one so therefore my mom wanted one as well =p I, of course put it in a GIANT box and stuck it under the xmas tree ^_^

The wood is walnut

The frame is actually cherry but the lighting made it a bit darker. The image was made on a CNC router on acrylic. I put in some window suction cups on the back so that the picture catches the light.

This box is another project that I made with the 8th graders. Mine is made of walnut and cherry and the kids are mostly walnut and cherry too unless they wanted to add other types. I will post more pictures of their work later on (maybe another video).

The size of the box itself is the same for every student and their design work came in on the legs/bottom, the box top, and the inside (dividers, trays, etc.). I really believe that students should be able to have freedom in design but as a teacher I know that I have to control the project in someway to ensure success. After showing them splines and inlays, most of the students chose to put them as well =]

The top stays on just by having a thicker center piece that sits in the box. There wasn’t really enough time for hinges (wooden or store bought) since the majority of the kids were giving them away as Christmas presents.

FYI, those 2 pieces inside are just bookmarks i made and kept them in there

Cutting board video

These are a few of the cutting boards that the 8th graders made (the one in the picture here is one I made). They’ve done a great job and have become very creative in their work =]

Just a couple of bookmarks from scraps. The center is cherry that has cool looking sap lines and the outsides are walnut. I’m not sure what the dimensions are- I just eyeball-ed it but the thickness is a tiny bit less than 1/8”

This is the first project that I did with 8th graders in an intro to woods class. They were allowed to choose between poplar, oak or cherry. It’s taken longer than I expected but they are coming out really well =]

The pictures were taken of different students’ projects at different points in time so the wood may not be the same in every picture

made of ash

This was a project that I did with a class of special ed. students. The little knob turns to the right to catch the candy and then you have to turn it back for it to fall through. The jars we used were tomato sauce jars and the center of the tops were cut out

Edit: So as suggested, I posted some new pictures. In 2 of them you can see how the candy will fall through and catches in the middle layer. Cheers!

This image relief was made on a CNC router. I had originally intended to make a photo light cube for it but the picture has a small crack in it so I didn’t get to the cube. I figured it’d make a pretty cool night light or lamp.

It’s a dart board that uses end grain that I made in high school. Some of the parts are routed- I just alternated which ones to route.

Just as the title says, it’s a working ball bearing from a plastic printer. Just about all the work is done on the computer but having a real product in the end is a nice reward

This is a model of a cellphone made on a CNC router. Just though I’d share =]

This is the cryptex from the Da Vinci Code. If you haven’t read it/seen the movie, it’s basically a puzzle vault/box. In order to open it you must solve the riddle and spell out the answer correctly. I got the pattern from a magazine called scrollsawer which I found at a local library. The riddle and Buddha on the ends were done on a laser engraver. I had intended the letters be done on the laser engraver too but that didn’t work out so I had to wood burn them last minute.

I used: walnut, oak, and cherry. The dowels are also walnut

This is a CO2 car made for an engineering design class. The cars were drawn on Pro-Desktop and then constructed afterward.