Category Archive: Posts by Material

Sep 10 2012

Checkerboard And Checkers

Categories:

Belt Sander, Birch, Games, Maple, Miter Saw, Miter Sled, Paste Wax, Purple Heartwood, Table Saw, Urethane, Walnut

September 10, 2012

It happens to all of us, you start a project, something more important comes around, and you forget about the first project for a while. I started gluing up a checkerboard in March, then something came up and I ended up leaving the finished glue-up sitting flat on my bench for about a week. When I …

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Sep 04 2012

Cookie Cutter Rack

Categories:

Organization, Poplar

by benjamen

September 4, 2012

My wife has taken cutting the crusts off my kids peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to a whole new level: she uses cookie cutters to cut the sandwiches into shapes. This means that rather than storing the cookie cutters away in a drawer somewhere and only pulling them out every once in a while, the …

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Jul 27 2012

Wooden Wallet

Categories:

Baltic Birch Plywood, Block Plane, Miter Saw, Miter Sled, Oscillating Sander, Padauk, Router Table, Table Saw, Thin Rip Jig, Wooden Wallet

by benjamen

July 27, 2012

About a month ago Stuart over at ToolGuyd posted the Slim Timber Wood Wallet. Since the wallet sold for $45 and it looked like a simple thing to create, he wondered what the best way of making a DIY version would be. I thought about it for a while …

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Jul 26 2012

Wooden Engine Garage (Sodor Steamworks)

Categories:

Acrylic Paint, Baltic Birch Plywood, Drill Press, Maple, Miter Saw, Oscillating Sander, Router Table, Table Saw, Wooden Train

by benjamen

July 26, 2012

My son has amassed quite a few engines in the few short years he’s had his wooden train table. The problem is that there just isn’t enough track to play with all of them, so they end up all over the table and floor. He has a garage that is attached to a round house, …

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Jul 19 2012

Topping Off The Experiment

Categories:

Lathe, Peruvian Walnut, Pull Saw, Red Oak

by benjamen

July 19, 2012

Not being one to leave well enough alone, I decided to make a top for the experimental finger bowel. Actually making a top let me try a few different skills where I need improvement: matching woods and turning to a fixed diameter. I chose to make the …

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Jul 17 2012

Turning End Grain

Categories:

Lathe, Red Oak

by benjamen

July 17, 2012

Most bowl turning banks I’ve seen are cut in such a way that you hollow the face grain to make the bowl. I’m not sure if they are sold like that because end grain turning is supposed to be more difficult or if maybe the mills just take the scraps from longer boards and …

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Jul 10 2012

Heart Shaped Necklace Holder

Categories:

Drill Press, Jewelry, Orbital Sander, Oscillating Sander, Padauk, Paste Wax, Router Table, Scroll Saw, Urethane

by benjamen

July 10, 2012

Sick of my daughter asking me to unsnarl her tangle of necklaces, I decided to build her a necklace tree. After some thought, I figured the tree would be a bad idea because it would be just one more thing to clutter up the horizontal space in her room. So I changed …

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Jun 19 2012

Drill Press Work Holder

Categories:

Drill Press, Phenolic Coated Plywood

by benjamen

June 19, 2012

I saw this idea for a work holder by +Christopher Landy over on Google+ — it’s not the first time I’ve seen something like it, but it kicked me in the butt to make one for my drill press table. Rather than a clamping the work piece to the table like …

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Jun 18 2012

Turning Some More Glue-Ups

Categories:

Cherry, Lathe, Maple, Padauk, Purple Heartwood, Tops

by benjamen

June 18, 2012

I decided it was either time to either throw away part of my growing pile of scrap wood or make something with it. Since I have a hard time parting with toothpicks, my only option was to make something. I’ve had good luck contrasting purple heartwood with maple, so laminating a turning …

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Jun 12 2012

If At First You Do Suceed, Fail, Fail Again

Categories:

Bloodwood, Drill Press, Jewelry, Lathe, Padauk, Peruvian Walnut, Table Saw

by benjamen

June 12, 2012

I thought making bracelets was easy, I guess I just got lucky the first time. I made my first bracelet out of Peruvian walnut. I started from a 1/2″ thick square blank, cut out the hole in the middle with a 2-1/2″ hole saw, and cut off the corners to make …

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