A fun project for 2 little girls…Fia and Paulina. I cut them on my Dewalt scrollsaw, using a nice chunk of walnut for the names, and purpleheart for the flowers. I dressed up the flowers with colored pipe cleaners…that I drilled holes for. I burned the tips of the flowers, for effect.
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This menorah is made out of cherry (see the burn marks).
It’s 7/8” thick, and stands about 9” H.
I cut it on my Dewalt scroll saw…a most wonderful tool…using a #1 FD-UR Flying Dutchman blade.

It’s not as festive as a lighted menorah…but it’s safer, and better for the environment.
Just add a flame piece each night.

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and happy holidays to all.

With my deck building season over, I’m getting some more shop time…so more cutting boards.
I have a ton of Ipe cutoffs from deck jobs, so it’s my default dark wood.

#1) 1.5” thick x 11×13 Ipe with maple accents. It’s heavy, and I put feet on 1 side, to ease lifting.

#2) 1” x 11” x 16” Ipe and cherry cafe wall board. I have had this one on my to-do list for awhile.

Finished with mineral oil

I have a few more that I am working on

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I’ve been meaning to build one of these for awhile. I finally got around to it.
3” diameter. Made from walnut.

I don’t get a lot of shop time, but I do get to make sawdust for a living.
All of these decks are made with Ipe. The first 5 are in Brooklyn, NY, and #6 is in Manhattan.
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Here is another morse code cutting board. I chose 2 very straight grained pieces of 1×6 Ipe, left over from a recent deck job. They came from different pieces, but are so similar, that they could be from the same tree. The code is maple. The size is 10.25” x 17”. Finished with mineral oil.

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I made this mail box from 3/4” MDO plywood. The window frames, shutters and trim are cut from 1/4” baltic birch. The numbers are cut from 1/2” walnut scrap. The chimney is cedar, and the roof is cedar shakes. The doorknob is an old hingepin that was laying around, waiting for this project. The front door locks with 2 3/8” rare earth magnets. Inside the window frames, I siliconed in some 1/4” plexiglass.
I found the plan in an old Weekend Woodworker magazine, and thought it would look nice in front of my cottage. It took about 25 hours to make. It was fun to make, but once is enough.
I don’t love the colors, but I already had the paint. It’s very Caribbean, mon…not too upstate NY.

Also visible in one of the photos is a cedar pergola that my wife requested. I started it last year, and just finished phase 2. Phase 1 is supporting a honeysuckle plant that finally reached the top, and the 2nd phase will support a wisteria plant that she just planted.

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I finally got around to building one of these, as a gift for a friend…an avid fisherman.

My thanks go out to Deeman, the original poster…and to Thelt, who sent me a copy of the plan.
I made this out of pine and walnut.
The handle actually spins with the help of a concealed bearing. It spins, but is not hooked up to the paper roll.

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I thought I’d try something new, yet simple. The wood is Ipe, with maple dots and dashes.
The message is in Morse code…the possibilities are unlimited, but I picked an easy message for my first attempt.

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All 4 of these boards were made of Ipe and Maple…my favorite dark/light combo.
They are all modeled from boards that have been posted on LumberJocks. What a talented group of woodworkers we have here.

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I built this unit yesterday, for a client. It did involve some woodworking. I used 5/4×10 clear poplar, and I had to cut them to size, round over the edges, drill the holes, and sand. Drilling the holes required some measure of exactitude, as the outside diameter of the pipe was 1 1/16”, and I used a 1 1/8” forstner bit…for a tight tolerance…very little wiggle room. I brought one of those cheapo portable drill presses, but ended up free handing the holes.
For pipe, I used 3/4” black pipe from HD, except for the galv. flanges (they didn’t have them in black).
The fittings used were elbows and T’s, and flanges, and (6,8,12 and 18”) pipe.
It took 5 hours to install, after about 6 hours of research and prep.
I usually build built-in bookcases, but her budget was small. She handed me a photo that she printed from the web, so that was all that I had to go with as far as a plan. I enjoyed the build, and now I have a low cost bookcase alternative for people with small budgets.
It is very, very sturdy.

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First of all, I’d like to thank Andy for this simple box design.
I decided to build each box with using only one type of wood. The first pair is lace, the second is zebra wood, and the last one is walnut. I used green flocking on the bottoms. The photos came out with a bit of a red tint…I’ll stick to woodworking.

There are some woods that I love to cut, because they smell so good…cedar (of course), cherry, walnut…to name a few. Zebra wood is not one of them. It’s beautiful, but has a bad stink.

I finished these just in time, as these boxes will be given away today.
I wish you all a safe and happy holiday.

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This is a knotty cedar 8 trash can enclosure. Sealed with Penofin.

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steve
www.urbanexteriors.biz

I had some more walnut and maple left over from my last set of trivets, so I adapted some more of Escher’s tessellated artwork.

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I’ve been scrolling these name thingies for years, and finally made one for myself…that’s the first one…made from padauk (that’s some red wood). The next 3 were for friends…a woodworker, a guitar player, and a lawyer.
The last one was for my wife on our 25th anniversary.
This is a great way to get rid of those tiny scraps that I just can’t seem throw away.
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These baskets were made using Steve Good’s pattern, available from his website…lots of free patterns there. http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/
They are very economical, but time consuming. Each basket requires only a 3/8” thick x 5.5” x 5.5” piece of wood, and some CA glue. The woods used for these are walnut, maple, mahogany and the one with the live edge is from an ash log that I had laying around in the shop.
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After seeing the Butsudan posted below, I remembered this one that I built a couple of years ago for a client.
Mostly mahogany and Ipe. It has a quasi hidden compartment below. They wanted me to ebonize it, but that is beyond my finishing skills, so I delivered it unfinished, and they decided to leave it that way.
I enjoyed making a project that would be the focus of someone’s prayers.

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I have been scrolling for years, and finally got around to making my first intarsia. It stands 6” high.
The body is Ipe
mahogany around the eye
eye is wenge
light wood is maple
beak is paduak
tail is tulip wood
feet are cherry

Intarsia is time consuming, and I almost gave up on this project.
Sure is a good way to use tiny scraps

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I enjoy making wood crafts and cabinets in the shop, but deck building is what pays the bills around here. 95+% of my decks have Ipe decking. and I use cedar for the railing with an Ipe cap. The screw holes are all plugged.
I built this one by myself in about 3 weeks.
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I scrolled this picture of my lab jumping off my dock, going after the ball. 35 piece puzzle cut from baltic birch. Frame made from cedar.