Show off your woodworking

[LeonardY]

I had posted this in the World Cup thread. Seeing the model train display above made me think to post it here as well. It is made of wood.

Taken from other thread......

I've been collecting World Cup Key chains since I was a kid. I just used to keep them in a box. My late father used to ask "why don't I do something with them?" when I was growing up. After he passed, I finally got around to building this frame/display for them and I have it hung up in the house. I have one from each tournament from 1974 to the present in this display. Just added the 2026 a few weeks ago. He was a huge fan of the tournament and futbol in general and passed that on to the family. If I live to be 96, I'll be able to fill this display completely.


ps. I would have used astroturf, but I couldn't readily buy a piece small enough. Green carpet mat from the dollar store, good enough?

Looks good.

Amazon has artificial grass in smallish pieces if you really want that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS42XFFV?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Meursault74]

Looks good.

Amazon has artificial grass in smallish pieces if you really want that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS42XFFV?tag=atomicindus08-20

Thanks for the link . I think I saw something like that when I had made it. $1 for some green carpet at the dollar store won out over ordering a piece online for more money. I think I got the hooks there at the dollar store too on the same trip, but I painted them white. The wood was scrap I had left over. The gold and white paint I already had from another project.
I think the green carpet goes with the gold I painted the frame to go with the trophy motif. The white, the lines from a field. It being a carpet gives a somewhat nod to grass. Well that's what I thought anyway with my limited artistic mind. I may have had some green paint at the time lying around, so using the carpet was a step up.

 

[Copymutt]

A very simple drinking cup of aspen made on a pen lathe. An entertaining endeavor.

 

[PirateTurner]

I'd like to see pictures of your lathes, and I dream of building a bowl turning lathe with a bit of swing capacity, but I don't have the contacts here for big wood, or rather I haven't gone out looking for the arborists who might have access to the pieces I dream of turning.

Stubby S750


Robust American Beauty.

If you want to build one, the simplest, IMHO, is a VB36 style.

And FWIW, I stay blessed with free wood. I'm still processing logs from Augusta's Hurricane Irene. And, some wood species age well when down. Some need to be processed immediately. Potential for tree damage in the weather forecast overnight.