Show us your wood projects

[harley rider]

Beautiful work Harleyrider. Are the curved doors band sawn or bent? Laminated?

none of the above . shaper ,router. and jigs .( several jigs )

 

[Dan'sGarage]

Re: Show is your wood projects

Billcole - Love the woodwork and garage cabinets...but I really like the flyrod! A man has to have the proper priorities!

 

[rieferman]

Oh boy, I'm a total newbie compared to some of these amazing posts. Nice work everyone!

But, the shop is finished, and I made it through my first project very recently (yes, norm's adirondack chair). I did it sort of backwards... built a full shop with dust collection and all tools etc. and THEN started learning woodworking.

My plan is to build projects that I have a high chance of being successful at, that will be useful for our home, and will ramp up in difficulty with each project.

Next, I'm going to repeat this project a few times to perfect what I've learned so far (and because it's not fun to sit by yourself in an adirondack chair is it?).

edit: anyways, this was built from rough sawn white oak.

 

[oilslick]

I made this for my daughter, it is a bunkbed type thing, she gets what she wants, although she rarely sleeps in it!!

 

[unclemoak]

 

[archirelic]

What wood did you use for the top?

 

[Bigfeet]

Pretty much a lurker but here is one of my projects.

Though carving a rifle stock would be a challenge and it was.

 

[dittle fart around]

I have a few nice long sections of osage orange that I plan to use for this.
It's supposed to produce one of the finest bow materials known to the tribes.
When I get some time and figure out a few details on their technique.

My son is drying some black bamboo for his next bow.
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[dittle fart around]

Can't compete with the finished cabinetry, but I've done a few fences.
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[DanD1]

Poker anyone?

 

[RivennHewn]

5 drawer 'cabinet'.

Sets on one of my workbenches, and is used to store all my sanding/grinding/buffing supplies.

 

[unclemoak]

What wood did you use for the top?

I laminated together a bunch of walnut/black walnut. I also made the base out of 2"x2" square tubing and 1/4" plate for the legs, then clear coated the whole thing like crazy.

 

[Displaced Hokie]

Some truely amazing and beautiful stuff in this thread!

I'd never done a fancy finish job on wood before, so took on restoring the first guitar I ever bought (1992 model entry level Ibanez):

Start:

Sanding (also fabbing up the custom bridge I made to cover the old tremelo bridge holes)

Stained and metal-flake "burst" edges added. I also added some flake to the blue areas by holding the paint can a few feet above the body and spraying across it - the paint floated away but the flake settled. You can see it if you look closely

Finished:

 

[petee_c]

progress here:
http://blog.pjbj.ca/search/label/shed

 

[harley rider]

I laminated together a bunch of walnut/black walnut. I also made the base out of 2"x2" square tubing and 1/4" plate for the legs, then clear coated the whole thing like crazy.

the workmanship looks great wish I could say the same for the walnut. the shop I work in would send that **** back .to much light colored sap wood.

 

[Stephenw]

Wood and Steel.

 

[VWandDodge]

^^ StephenW, that is neat. Well done.

 

[brianh]

There is a nice variety of talent on this site, very nice work.

 

[camarotoolman]

You need to switch to the woodwork forum, I do cars and wood too.

 

[steel 35]

My wood working for the day!

 

[bigdav160]

I'm just finishing up my kitchen remodel. I spent months in the garage milling lumber from a local pecan tree. . The corian countertops aren't finished yet (got to sand the seams and edges).

Here's the results.

 

[lacewood]

Bigdav, the kitchen looks great...where did you have that copper hood made?

 

[HeyNow^]

One of my many projects.

 

[bigdav160]

Bigdav, the kitchen looks great...where did you have that copper hood made?

I'm glad you asked. I made most everything, even the fridge handles, but I commissioned the hood to Art of Rain. Max was easy to deal with, on schedule, very good on price and does beautiful work.

 

[dreamingmuscle]

Re: Show is your wood projects

Here is a work bench

Some shop cabinets

I'd like to know more about the doors on the cabinets. What I can see is 1x4's and tongue and grove bead board.

What I can't see is how you mounted the bead board to the back of the frames. Did you grove those too? Or just router out a 1/4 inch channel for it to sit in.

I'm going to try and build some wardrobes for the master bed room and your doors seem to be something I think I can accomplish.

Glen

 

[GarageEnvy]

Here's a clock table I just finished up. The clock is Howard Miller from Lamps Plus. The base was made from an African Mahogany door that had a split panel and was never finished. I glued the octagon for the top but in full disclosure, had it CNC cut. Hey for $85, they cut the circle and the deep rabbit for the clock and the shallow rabbit for the glass. Since my circle cutting jig for the bandsaw and routers were too small and I would have had to make new ones, the decision was pretty easy. The finish is MacLac Industries conversion varnish over a brown mahogany stain.

The old door

The octagon ready for glue up

Me Cheating by having the top CNC cut.
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The finished product

 

[PowerGenGuy]

My favorite!

 

[PowerGenGuy]

All projects from recycled lumber!

 

[Sudsy]

I just picked up a new lathe that's going to take up quite a bit of room in my garage. I found this place while Googling for layout ideas - I can't believe I never saw this site before, some really great stuff being done and really great ideas.

So for my first post I'd like to say hello from the real Jersey Shore, which is nothing like it's portrayed on that idiot TV show. (and you can tell the tourists from the locals in that the tourists, aka "bennies" call it "Da Shore" we call it "the beach")

No pictures of my garage right now as it looks like a bomb went off while I'm reorging. But i will show a few pictures of what i do out there, which is mostly making fishing lures for surf fishing for Striped bass.

 

[jrod60]

To make use of an otherwise silly 'formal living room' behind french doors, we decided to make it a library. Ten foot ceiling, long wall is 15', short is 10'. Cabinets are 3/4" birch ply set on a 2x4 base with 2"x 3/4" red oak facing. The boxes in the lower opening keep a variety of riff raff from looking too messy. They're all full now that the poly is complete.

We 'warmed up' with three simple cabinets in the garage, and despite butchering that, figured what the hell and ran with it. Three years start to finish all told, but there were many very long breaks where the room was just full of boxes. I'd guess three months' worth of full weekends could do it. The color looks better with a real camera, but oh well.

And yeah, I have an air hockey table in a library.

 

[ddawg16]

Nice stuff above....good job guys....

I might as well show some of my stuff.....

Made my own kitchen cabinets....

 

[glider]

Not a big project but it was a freebie with a couple days to get it done. Display shelves for my Mother and have a killer dinner coming.

http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/clt/2880439730.html

 

[cfaas416]

Just finished this for the In-Laws

 

[Tribalvision]

Here's my mantel I just completed. turned out nice for my first one.

here's a coffee table I built for the man cave.

Laminated to match the pool table.

 

[Alchymist]

While not as nice or as fancy as most of the above, here's a few. (Currently working on a &' X 14" X20" "toolbox" of black walnut. Going to try an inlay in the lid.

 

[Keep]

Here are a few of mine. Nothing to elaborate.

Cedar lined chest:

Went on a cutting board kick for a bit:

Have some others, just nothing special garage cabinets and the like.

 

[Keep]

Here's a clock table I just finished up.

That is very cool. Mahogany has a nice warm finish.

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

I joined GJ for the organizational information - and you b@#$%^&'s got me hooked on mechanic's tools!

First is a box made out of some pallet wood. Nice coloring / figure for a pallet.

Second are some pens from the lathe and the trays I made for them. Some of the pens are acrylic but there's wood in the picture.

Third is a gavel I made for my daughter's United Nations class.

Fourth is a cubby my kids store their school bags and coats in. It's in the living room by the front door.

Cheers

Jim

 

[american3.14guy]

A couple of years ago, my wife saw a cute little playhouse for sale. After inquiring about the price, I said "I can make one cheaper." Made it from scratch and it's a replica to our 1923 Craftsman-style 2 story house. There is a loft above the porch where they can look out the dormer. Made the eave brackets, too.
The kitchen was looking tired and was terribly outdated, although the cabinets were solid and there was no way to reconfigure the kitchen. I made new doors out of cherry with red mahogany stain, made new face frames for the upper and lower boxes, skinned the upper boxes with 1/4 cherry plywood, and added an extension to the one end for more cabinet space. I get into the corner with a set of bi-fold hinges. Since I covered an outlet, we keep the toaster and can opener in the cabinet and use it there.
With all of the small pieces of cherry left over, I made a knife block to match the rest of the cherry.

 

[camarotoolman]

woodwork has been my thing of 40+ years