This is a little coat rack I made for my daughter’s room so she can hang her house coat.
Project is a take off on the leash holder project that I gave away to friends (and my daughter just about died when I did)
Of course it has a dog theme and includes leather foot pads representing a chocolate and black lab and a golden retriever.
The feet are pear wood and the dowels are rosewood. The bone is a hunk of painted plywood with shaped ends.
The last photo is a Scottie dog belt I made her…ages ago. Those edges are a little rough, needed my Cocobolo edge burnisher!
I have to get her a dog soon, just not able to figure out the time. Fun stuff
Scott

I helped a little, but my now 11 yr old son made these.
The deck on the first is Baltic plywood that he cut out on the bandsaw to make a fat cruiser style board. He designed the veneer arrangement for the top and sanded the edges. I glued things up, drilled holes and helped paint and sticker the bottom.Then 80 grit sandpaper as grip tape designed to still show the veneer…..and trashed already by his feet.
The second is a store bought board- we cut out the Maple Leaf design in the grip tape to show the top of the deck.
He did all the truck, bearing and wheels assembly on both.
The crazy thing is they make these beautiful boards and then slap the ugly grip tape on them..gheeze

Have not posted a project in ages, mostly b/c been doing moe leather than wood work.
I spent some time this summer with my two kids (9 and 10) and a friend I have know since grade 1.
He is a turner and schooled us with his lathe on turning some tools I wanted for my leather work.
We made a maple mallet a cocobolo burnisher and a blood wood burnisher (little thimble)
The kids had a hand in turning all of these and really had a blast…as did I!
Scott

...because he looks so happy “

Time out!!!
The dancing clock is finished and a wonderful girl is a happy ticker.
Woods are purpleheart and rock maple. I used linseed oil and beeswax polish as finishes and glad I did….kids are all over stuff like this and will go hand to mouth or mouth on wood so the less toxic the better and less volatiles to be stinky in her room. The purpleheart really glows nicely, fun to finish this wood.
The clock kit mechanism is really rinky-dink so this is a toy rather than a real clock…so much slop in the pendulum mechanism I can’t get it to track correctly. But not expensive and fun to make.

I wrote a blog on this if interested
http://lumberjocks.com/twokidsnosleep/blog/21473

Well I am on a roll here so will flood LJ with my little projects

This is a mallet that I had help with from LJ’ess Autumn, who made a lovely LV mallet here
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/40271
I was thinking of ebony as a head, but Autumn wrote me and suggested that it would be too brittle and prone to breakage/chipping. So, she suggested I use a tight grained fruit wood and offered some apricot wood to me. How cool is that of her. Thanks again for that offer Autumn, wonderful gesture to a complete stranger! I just so happened to have a little pear wood in the garage so with her consent off I went into my exotics cut off box (ordered online for $15) to get some accompanying wood.
I am going to have to go look up what all the woods were:
Pear cheeks and face for sure
Jatoba handle ?
Morado wedges?
Something else in the middle?
That is the problem with off cuts as you are never sure, but also the fun part as you get to try out new weird woods and hone the old ID skills. I like to draw and research a project out so the last pic is my rough plans from my project journal. I looked at a lot of LJ’ers mallets…. shape, size, materials before falling into this one design of my own.
Thanks for looking Cheers, Scott

Just trying to fill up my projects file :)

Dog leash holder for a family with a chocolate lab puppy
Original project/posting by campy is here http://lumberjocks.com/projects/39075
Mine has a pear backing, jatoba (I think) pads and a black metal rod insert. Watco danish oil on top.
Wood choices are perfect for a chocolate lab.
My daughter just about died when I gave it away so I saved all the plans and such to make one for her

I made these little boxes to hold my oil stones….one box band sawed in half.
Like most stuff I make, the boxes are recycled wood…oak from a large tree branch that fell near my driveway. The tree still stands across the street from our house at my kid’s school . My daughter and I brought an oak log home in her little wagon and I hand and band sawed and hand planed it into usable boards.
My son and I also made the edge banding out of exotic wood scraps…I put it on the ends to cover a screw up. Used a felt insert as a soft base. The sides are lower than the stone so sharpening is possible.
The stones themselves are from my dad. After he died, these and some shoe polishing brushes were all I found left in the basement…vultures got there before me. I included pictures of the boxes as I thought they looked cool. As I get older, I find I am more interested in old tools and such. These boxes themselves are likely from the 50’s one is stamped Vancouver Fire Marshall on the bottom.
There you go box history lesson done

Ok I found these photos and will finally post a Kerfmaker.
I still have to do an end grain cutting board and what else to get my LJ merit badge??

My kerfmaker is made from exotic wood cut offs I got for $7. It works with a rare earth magnet on one side and a metal rail made out of nails on the other.
I love the look, finish and feel of this tool and though I find it less than useful, it was fun to make and finish. I should have been more precise with the nail placement to allow for finer adjustment.

It was also a lesson in seat of my pants modification to account for multiple screw ups that I will list:
1. It was intended to have a ‘traditional’ wing-nut and bolt fastening but I cut pieces too narrow so no bolt room
2. Had to inlay a pine strip filler to account for lack of offset for thickness and to allow the two halves to meet perfectly
3. Made a groove in opposite side to allow pine strip filler to run in and help hold the darn thing together
4. Stuck in a magnet to help hold two sides tight as friction wasn’t enough
5. As mentioned metal rail could have been better aligned and closer to allow low end fine adjust

It was quite comical facing the continued challenges I made for myself in creating this…a true comedy of errors. There were no formal plans, just a quick drawing made and I thought I could bang it out. Really do love the look of it though.
Cheers, Scott

My small dude (9yrs old) asked for some more mature drawer and door pulls than the ceramic animals that he has had since babyhood. He has a hockey thing going on in his room, so it was an easy choice what to do. Real pucks were too large so we cut 3/4” plywood rounds with a hole saw.
He did all the drill press work…..safety glasses and ear protection in tact. I made sure the table and workpiece were well clamped down. Aside from some smoke and burning, he did great.

pic #2 The ply was recycled from a plumbing repair to a shower drain…you can see the u-shaped cut for the pipe.
pic #3 We added texture to the edges of the puck, like a real one has, by gluing on some sawdust from the drilling out of the pucks.
Prime and paint, epoxy a machine nut in the middle and a logo sticker to cover the hole. This is his closet door done
Will post the entire set when finished.
He is really getting into this hobby, though he needs to work on his team loyalties…..Canucks before hated habs!!

Mar 2011
Little update with the finished pics….it is a rainy lazy Sunday in Vancouver
The dresser and side table are just Ikea cheapies, but the cool pulls make it his own
He took the pics

These are two recycled wood pencil boxes I sent the kids off to school with in September.
Wood is from rotting cedar fencing that I re-sawed with my bandsaw.

Did some handi-work to square things up

Siding lid and base are a thin red oak plywood

My daughter Watco stained her ‘Enviro” wood pencils to match her pencil box.
Kids loved them,
Thanks for looking,
S

This took me forever.
Chipping away at it 30 min here and there after work or after the kids were in bed. This weekend I finally got a couple of hours and went crazy.
I have been looking to make a sanding table to help control dust in the garage. Since the spring I have looked at a lot of plans and ready-built models online, but it just seemed easier(?stupider) to make it myself to the dimensions I wanted so that I can stand at the workbench, saw or portable table and not get a sore back.
Jim B made ‘Dusty’ and got me going with his great design and some tips in his blog: http://lumberjocks.com/jbertelson/blog/11569
A trip to the lumberyard’s off cut section found MDF, pegboard, hardboard and some thin ply all very cheap. The MDF was $.50; the black hardboard set the tone for colors.
The P51 was added just for fun to keep up with Dusty’s style….and I had a decal kicking around.
Sorry it is not fine woodworking but it was fun, eventually

This is my little dude’s first wood project he made in the garage while I fiddled with learning how to make a box.
He wanted every cut off I had and used a plastic mini stick as his guide, hand sanding the edges and rounding the blade after I helped attach it. Then he added the decals. Needs a bit more fine sanding and some clear-coat next.

His minor team was the Spitfires and the Windsor Spitfires just won a second Memorial Cup for Canadian Junior Hockey.
My son is not a big Canuck fan like me as his pj’s show…...a hated Habs fan :)
I have a fondness for Spitfires, P50 Mustangs and Merlin engines hence my avatar and his minor team name that I helped coach.