Commissioned table patterned after one I made for my wife a few years ago! This one is larger 48×16 x 30.
All made of rough sawn red oak!

I was ask to make some products for a Made In Michigan store to sell.
These are some of what I made. 9 inches tall and 6.5 inches wide
Happy New Year to all.

A Christmas gift for my granddaughter. I put candy kisses in it but she can put anything in it she wants. Ash and Mahogany with help from my CNC. 11×4 x 4

White Ash with Early American Stain
24×18x24

This is all ash with a Early American Stain! Natural stone with glass tile. The breast board and foot board are also inset with glass tile. The geese and cattails were done on my home made CNC. This was a natural fire place I converted to natural gas!

When I started playing on the traveling pool league I bought a chalk holder that had a cord and a small pencil shaped hard plastic fob to keep in your pocket with the chalk hanging out! The first night I used it when I got home I didn’t have it! Must have slipped out of my pocket after pool!
Instead of buying a new one I decided to make one. I have made all the team members one and trying to sell them to other teams! I’m in the process of making some out of Blood wood, Brazilian Leopardwood, Purple heart, Walnut, and Mulberry. In addition to ones you see in the pics which are combinations of Bo cote, Birdseye Maple, Brazilian Cherry and others not shown!
Everyone using one seems to like it or there not wanting to hurt my feelings! Whatever lol

Last spring I was ask to be on a traveling pool league. A five man team like bowling! Most of the guys I knew. You have a home table (Brighton VFW) and play roughly half your games away! Since everyone has their own stick you need someplace to put them when your not shooting! One of the guys ask me to come up with a solution! It fits against a round or flat edge table and is my first inlay work. Birdseye Maple, Brazilian Cherry, Maple, Cherry and Mulberry.

Back in the late spring my cousin called me to see if the offer to use my shop was still open and could I help him with a project! I said of course it would be fun! About 18 years ago he fell from some scaffolding and broke his back. Paralyzed from the mid chest down he only gets around in a wheelchair. Since we both have granddaughters he thought we both could build dollhouses for them for Christmas. His wife found a plan she liked and so we would build two dollhouses just alike except for floors, paint, wallpaper, etc. 1/12th scale. We started in late September thinking that would be lots of time! Although they both got them on Christmas they were not done until New years! Way more work than either of us anticipated. All three floors are on separate switches!

Things we bought.
Clapboard siding
Stairs
Front and back doors
Electrical Kit
Shingles
Hardwood flooring
Rosettes

Things we made.
Windows- Plexiglas with saw kerfs filled with white-out Casings Jams Trim
Railings & Spindles- inside and out including posts
Porch floors
Crown
Base
Door jams, casing & trim

All walls and framing is 3/8 MDF.

This is my first attempt at Tumbling Blocks! For me there was definitely a learning curve to this. Now that I think about it almost anything I do has a big learning curve to it!
This trivet is made from Mulberry, Maple, and Brazilian Cherry. It measures 4 5/8” by 4 3/8” by 7/16”.
I wasn’t going to do anything large for my first try. Not satisfied with my skill level yet!
I made the diamonds on a homemade jig on my RAS. Special thanks to Degoose (Larry) and Patron for there suggestions! The last two pics are lose diamonds to get the right affect.

This is my version of Bluchz’s “Big Jointer Push Stick”. Mulberry and Maple
For all who suggested that screws in the bottom of the heel plate was a bad idea I made the changes!
The last two pics are before I made the changes!

My wife ask me to make something for her desk at work. She wanted it made with an exotic wood.
So I made her go with me to the mill works to pick out what she wanted. That way she couldn’t complain about the price of the wood! This wood is very dense but fun to work with. Finishing it was another story!
I started out using Tung Oil and it took a week to dry! Then I tried Fast Drying Polyurethane from Minwax but that took forever to dry! Decided that when all else fails read the directions. (research) I found out Cocobolo is about the only wood that is oilier than this wood! I was going through all these steps on a scrap piece also so I could experiment. When the polyurethane dried I decided to try some Water Base Polycrylic from Minwax on the scrap and it dried in 20 minutes! Live and learn.
The wood is Bocote!

I made the mirror frame a couple of years ago with my hanging system. The table I made a few months ago.
They both are red oak with Minwax Early American Stain.
I put the same detail in the legs of the table that I did in the mirror frame. This makes it a set or not!
Basically the cleat on the wall recesses into the back of the mirror. There are two mortice’s in the back of the top rail that have holes drilled through to the recess. Two holes in the top of the cleat correspond with the holes in the top of the frame. If you want to move the mirror just level the cleat and fasten it to the wall. Then drop two wooden dowels in and walk away.
I never liked seeing pictures or mirrors on a wire hanging away from the wall at the top and tight at the bottom. This solves that problem. If you center and level the cleat where you want it hung you can’t make a mistake.

My daughter ask me to build a container that would hold her plastic trash bin. She was specific about what she wanted and gave me some pics off the Internet of commercially made containers. She wanted it painted black to match her kitchen appliances. A sloped top keeps it from accumulating things! It kills me to cover up wood with paint. I made it out of MDO but the top is maple in case she ever wants to remove the paint. The inside I spiced up with a little color. Latex enamel so it can be washed.

One of my daughters has a ShihTzu dog which tries to find a vantage point to look outside. My daughter ask me to build some kind of platform that he could jump up on and look out the window. Just a top with four legs she said! She gave me the window height and said there was no hurry.
I thought about it for awhile and decided a top with four legs would move to easy when he jumped up on it. So I made a cabinet with a recessed top for a pad which my wife special ordered. This material was left over from the cabinets I built in my workshop.
When the dog stops using it for whatever reason I told my daughter she could have a copper pan made for the top and put plants in it. A top with four legs doesn’t have storage and being woodworkers we know the importance of space.
As you can see the dog approves!
p.s. His name is Okie because they got him from Oklahoma!

After making the oak and maple shelves my wife told me she wanted another shelf for the other side of the window!
I didn’t like the idea of making two shelves just the same so I told her I would come up with something. I wanted to make something similar but different.
I decided to make a double shelf using the same technique as on the single shelf. I pictured one shelf right side up and the other upside down.
This is what I came up with!

I built these in 2006, the oak shelf was for my wife and me. The other two are maple, Christmas gifts for my daughters. One natural and the other was stained to match furniture in their houses.
When thinking about these projects I know my daughters are “level challenged”.
I wanted to make the shelves as easy to hang as possible. Basically I mortised out the support board to accept the two uprights and elongated the holes in the mortise to adjust the shelf for level. I then drilled and counter sank four holes in the back edge of the top. I put brass inserts in the support board to receive four quarter inch brass machine screws. After the shelf is mounted you can’t tell how it is fasten to the wall. I like this system so well I use it on anything I build that hangs if possible.

I made three Lazy Susans in 2005. Two of them were for my daughters as Christmas gifts and the other was for my wife and me. The smaller ones (15” diameter) were meant to be used at a table or small counter. The larger one sits on our large kitchen island and its 21” in diameter. They all have Corian inserts.

I found a counter-top builder who let me pick through his scrap to find colors that would go in my daughters kitchens.

My router table cut all the circles as I didn’t have a band saw at that time

My daughter and son-in-law gave me a mirror they bought for a bathroom. When they tried to hang it a corner broke. They ask me if I would want to put a frame around it to cover up the bad corner. Maybe it could hang in Clarice’s(Granddaughter) room. They said in the process if it broke just throw it away.

A couple of months later I gave it back to them on Clarice’s birthday. She was four years old. This afternoon we are going to her birthday again and now she is six.

I have fun making it up as I go!

My brothers kids go to the Catholic school in town. Once a year each class is required to provide something to be auctioned off for the church. A teacher contacted my brother knowing we both are woodworkers about building a project the kids could finish and submit. They ask us to make a game box.

We were given an approximate size and the top to be removable. So that either side of the top could be used to play games. This is made of pine and hard board. The kids finished the piece and I’m told it was a big hit at the auction. Both sides of the top were decoupaged and covered with liquid acrylic.
The kids did a great job!

I built this in 2006. All melamine carcass. Oak solid core door for a top with Masonite laminated on and a maple edge. Its very heavy so I put fixed casters on one end.