fun with wood

My son has said that he has outgrown his (twin sized) race car bed, and wished for a big boy bed. after looking on Amazon for mattresses , i decided to construct the bed frame. i saw a bunch of bed frames in the search, but they all looked cheesy and cheap. so i did the next best thing, i spent...

i'm certainly no carpenter, and definitely not a furniture maker. my brother has a dresser drawer that had a dovetail slide under the drawer that had broken. the problem is that the female half of the dovetail has a very thin cross section at the base of the dovetail. to compound the problem...

log reindeer

I did some messing around in the shop, but in plywood this time. i used 5mm plywood from the Big Box Store, and got some clip art from the internet. i cut out the clip art and used packing tape to secure the trace to the plywood and cut the figures out. i used regular spray paint and made all of...

it's been a while since i chewed on some sawdust. so i took care of that in short order! Happy Thanksgiving to All!

My son came to me yesterday and asked me if i could build him a recycle bin for cans and bottles. I told him, i'll make the best one i can, using the wood i got here! apparently he is learning about recycling at school . i couldn't resist the opportunity to make something useful and recycling at...

I'm at it again, doing stuff to amuse myself. i came up with a plywood lamp from scraps a couple weeks ago and called it MK I. it worked just fine, but i thought i installed the wrong lamp hood... so i decided to remedy that with, a new hood and improvements to the lamp socket mounting! note...

A flash of inspiration came over me, this weekend past. from my mind, came the idea of constructing an ab roller from materials i had laying around. this is the progression, enjoy! I started with hot rolled steel, 3/4" diameter. the bearings 2) 6303-RS C3, i had chosen them for sheer abundance...

Toolbox From Scrap! (mostly scrap anyway) i was out messing around in the shop today and started the build for a much needed box for some of my woodworking tools. i used a combination of scrap 1/2" plywood for the sides and floor, some 1x4's from a shipping crate for the rear panel and...

I made some Snow People from cedar fence boards 3/4" thick i used a planer to smooth the faces of the boards then, i used a jigsaw to cut the head shapes out. Painting was accomplished by roller and exterior latex paint for the main color, then accented with hobby acrylic paints. you can't...

My neighbor brought me a wooden reindeer to see, that his grandfather had made in the 1980's. i thought it was so cool that i asked him if i could copy the reindeer and make them for other friends and family. he was stoked that i could reproduce them and gave the blessing. i purchased a 1/2...

I made 3 copies of a piece of straight track for my sons favorite trains. the oak was reclaimed from a pallet and planed and sawn to the dimension of the track it was copied from. i used a 10" table saw to cut the blank into thirds of equal width and length. a vintage Dremel #57-2 Moto...