Sep 19, 2018 | Woodworking Tips
Here are some snowmen I turned for Christmas presents for the family. My wife did the painting and the clear coating. Most of these are turned from red cedar. One is red oak and the biggest one is maple. They were a lot of fun. Woodworking Projects at...
Sep 19, 2018 | Woodworking Tips
We don’t know. We just don’t know. The origin of the term “Lazy Susan” was probably in the 20th century … it was used to promote Ovington’s $ 8.50 mahogany “Revolving Server or Lazy Susan” in a 1917 Vanity Fair ad. That ad also stated that the device was...
Sep 18, 2018 | Woodworking Tips
I built this mainly using a pallet marked “Product of the Philippines”. As you can see, there were several differant types of wood used to make the pallet. I have no idea of the wood species, but it wasn’t what you usually find at Lowes...
Sep 18, 2018 | Woodworking Tips
Two blocks of burl were left in my collection for few years. Time has come to work on them with new idea. I connected them by a small branch to make them look like a big tree and then color it to normalize it as real tree. About 20 centimeters tall....
Sep 17, 2018 | Woodworking Tips
I built this simple unit to hold a load of the the really useful boxes to store some of my small consumables. The lip at the top of the boxes runs along the bottom of the slots I routed in the vertical dividers. I had the clear boxes already and I...
Sep 17, 2018 | Woodworking Tips
These nightstands were inspired by Stickley’s table #516 and were made to match this head board which was my own design. At first glance, they seem to be an easy project, but the glue up process was challenging. The joints are floating tenons and...
