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Magazine Stand
This was inspired by my son who asked for a magazine stand for his office. I had seen similar designs made of metal but never one quite like it in wood. The shelves are Birch plywood, the uprights and...
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Child's adirondack Chair
A couple years ago I took some of the wood from our Church sanctuary remodel project and found it to be redwood. For a fund raising project I made a few of these childrens’ chairs from it. I sealed and...
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Necktie Birdhouses
These birdhouses were built on a “lark”, having noticed other bird abodes with out of the ordinary themes. Actually I built the first one for a “wren” of mine, I mean a friend of mine who I do a good...
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Necktie Birdhouses
Here are a few more necktie birdhouses. I often wonder if living in one of these would do harm to a bird in its society. I actually have friends who would wear real neckties with these patterns. That’s...
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Jewelry box
This is a jewelry box I made last month; I found the pattern in one of the woodworking magazines. I used maple and cherry. I finished it natural with a spray on lacquer.
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Ecenter
This is an Ecenter I built for my daughter in 2009. The year before I had built the same design for my son, except we used drawers in the center section of his unit. I got the plan from AMERICAN...
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Personal Magazine & Book Station
My son-in-law needed something to hold his current reading materials, provide a place to accomodate refreshments and hold the various video remotes, while watching tv, so the two of us designed this...
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Kids' Rocking Chair
I’ve made several of these little rocking chairs for gifts for my contemporaries who are blessed with grandchildren. For the one pictured I used oak and walnut for a good buddy’s grandson a couple...
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Music Stand
The music stand is for my church music director to use when directing the sanctuary choir. The oak and the fluted stand are taken from the architecture and design of the sanctuary. The mechanics of the...
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Garden Bench, Redwood
I built this bench using redwood salvaged from our church renovation in 2008. The redwood had been used for over 30 years trimming/covering the steel uprights in the sanctuary. They are a full...
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Wood Whisperer's contemporary clock adapted
Thank you Marc aka THE WOOD WHISPERER. I used this plan to make this for a friend as a small tribute in memory of his mom. The plaque shows her name, date of birth and date of death. I made a bit...
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End Grain Cutting Board
Thanks to LJs who have posted their end grain cutting boards; special thanks to the WOODWHISPERER for a very good video tutorial. I chose to use Red Oak, Wenge, Purple heart and Maple. I’m very pleased...
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Teak Shower Bench
I haven’t seen a lot of these here on LJs, but I do think I got the general idea from someone here and now I do not recall and cannot find who to credit. Let me know if you’ve seen one similar; I’m...
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Live Edge Maple side table
This is a slab of Maple about 2” thick X 16” X 13”. It came from a tree on my property about 2 years ago. I cut the slab with my chainsaw, then used my router to level it up on both sides, following...
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Big Green Egg Table
Much of this design came from Todd Adair’s project which was very nicely done. I used Cypress, finished with Helmsman Spar varnish. Assembled with screws and plugged. The granite was a leftover piece I...
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Watch Box
This is another project for my son-in-law, Zach, following his design for adequate storage for his watches. The box is cherry and wenge. To line the box, I used the glue and spray flocking which worked...
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Bob Burns Memorial Box
I built this box for my young neighbors, Brayton and Harrison, in memory of their late grandad, Bob Burns. Bob was a woodworker and the box will house his WOODSMITH shop book collection. The box is...
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Rocking Motorcycle
A friend asked me to build this for her grandsons. The pattern came from Sherwood. It was a good design, easy to follow and very complete. The painting was done by my color specialist at my...
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Pine Slab Table
This is a pine slab I kept when the utility company cut some trees on my property a couple years ago. This one was clear and the growth rings showed up nicely. It is well balanced and sits well on the...
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