This is an Aromatic Cedar table I recently completed for a customers new kitchen. I had a blast building this thing.The entire top starting with the middle is sequentially book-matched, its kind of hard to see in the small pictures but I hope he likes it. Dimensions are 4’ wide by 6’ long and 30”tall. Everything is finished with spar-urethane with UV protection then the top received 2 coats of self leveling epoxy. When it turns out right I really like the epoxy finish but it is very time consuming and not nearly as easy as originally planned!

A little serving tray out of Flamed Boxelder. Used a clear coat lacquer to avoid yellowing the white wood.

Alrite guys and gals.. I can’t seem to make up my mind which way this thing is meant to hang on the wall so your opinions are greatly appreciated. Dimensions are 14”wide by 30”tall. Frame is Black Walnut and the “picture” is book-matched spalted Hackberry. Finished with clear coat spar-urethane. Thanks for looking!

This is a custom made picnic table and bench set that I just finished up this morning. Hopefully it is just what they are expecting or better! 8’ long 30” wide and 30” Tall Benches are 14”wide 18”tall and 8’ long Finished with spar-urethane with UV protection to preserve the bright colors.

Another bench built for my sister’s wedding. In total I made 17 new benches and used 3 that I already had on hand and also had some big planks sat on straw bales as extra seating. It was such a blast making all of these and also a great opportunity to make a dent in the pile of live edge slabs I had been accumulating for quite some time. The legs on this bench are just a big chunk of firewood that I set on the sawmill and cut into 4” thick blocks. The top is 6/4” thick, 12-14” wide, and 8’long. Everything is doweled and glued together. I used a clear-coat Minwax Helmsman Spar-Urethane for finish as I have had really good luck with its UV protection keeping the reds and purples in cedar from fading.

One of many benches made for the seating at my sister’s outdoor wedding. This one happened to be my favorite so it now resides under my feet as I troll through this website. Top slab is 6/4”thick, 14” wide, and 39” long. Sanded as far as 220grit (wish I had went even finer). Finished with a clear lacquer to avoid changing the colors as much as possible. I though about cutting and sanding out the chainsaw cut that you can see in the first picture but decided it would change the shape to much and it adds “character” anyway.

This bar was a cooperative effort between myself and a buddy for his basement den. He brought me a big walnut log to cut up on my sawmill. Everything was kiln-dried and then the preparation began. He had the bar top sanded in a wide belt sander and then began cleaning the natural edges. I took the remaining lumber and planed and tongue an grooved the majority of it. The last few pieces I ran through the moulder for a couple of pieces of crown molding which was used as the base trim. The pictures don’t do justice for how awesome the lights underneath the bar-top set of the beautiful colors and grain pattern of the walnut. The top slab is a 2.25” thick, 20” wide, and roughly 9feet long. The whole thing is finished with poly-urethane. Let me know what you guys think..

A simple bench for my dads birthday. I had an ash log with to much of a curve for much lumber so I slabbed it out for the legs on this bench. The seat and back-rest are oak as this was what I had handy in the right size. I used glue and really long dowels to hold it all together. Approx. dimensions- 5’ wide x 16” deep x 5’tall

A memorial bench I made for a friends father. Steel frame, Oak wood-work. Seat and back piece are made from and 18” wide plank I had been saving for a meaningful project such as this. It also has a name burned in the center of the back rest, I edited it out in respect for the family. Dimensions 4’wide 18”deep 36” tall

GUN RACK!! The first thing that popped in my head when I cut this board off the log. I was a little worried it would twist up when drying so I stacked plenty of weight on top of it and it turned out great. Being the amateur carpenter that I am getting the antlers cut at the right angles on a miter saw was touch and go. Once I had them as close as possible I set them in place on the board and with a sharp pencil traced around points to be joined. I then used a utility knife to cut around the profile. Next, chiseled out the center roughly 1/4” deep and then drilled a hole through to the back. For added strength I used a 2-part clear epoxy in the chiseled out holes and also put a screw through the back into each antler. The left end of this board did not have a natural edge so the jigsaw rounded it off and the belt sander did some uneven gouging and angling so that it would match the rest of the edges. To match the color I mixed some ashes and charcoal from the fireplace with water and pasted it on the fresh cut edge, let it dry, and did some more uneven sanding to get the same color variation. Used poly for a lack of having anything better to make the grain “jump”. I still have this boards’ bigger brother so I hope it creates as much fun as I had on this simple little project. Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think, good or bad..

This was designed as an entryway/porch chair with its shallow depth. It is made of Aromatic cedar. All the spindles were roughed up with a draw knife and the joints of the back panel were scraped with a V lathe knife to give it an overall appearance of being an old weathered chair. It stands 6feet tall, is 18inches deep, 22”wide, and a seat height of 19inches. All drill holes are filled with plugs drilled out of lumber from the same tree. Thanks for looking. Criticism both good and bad is welcome.

VERY simple project that I turned into a tough project through a couple amateur screw-ups. I now choose to call it “intentionally defected”.

I had the top piece of this bench laying around for quite some time waiting for it to “talk to me”. Hope I did it justice. The top is 1.75” thick 36”ish long and 13”ish wide. The side pieces may look structurally questionable, they’re not. 1” thick and 10” at the widest point. I cut the grooves in the bottom of the top slab free hand with the circular saw, which turned out surprisingly great! Everything is doweled and glued together, no screws. I’m already kicking myself that I didn’t make the back of the slab the front. Oh well.! Criticism is welcome, Im learning by my mistakes, and slowly moving towards tackling more difficult projects. hope you all like it!!

Not much to brag about here. Just screwed and glued it from the back and bottom. Clear semi-gloss poly.

This was a somewhat belated birthday present for my mom. It started as an offcut piece of scrap 3/8”ish thick. I used the jigsaw to cut out circles and then arranged them in such a manner that as I turned it the best spalt would stay showing. As you can see its not perfect, but it was my first bowl, so don’t be to hard on me! Actually, let me know what I could have done better, so maybe my next one will be perfect.:)