Vinyl/Tech Display Stands

$25 plus shipping. Various woods. One of a kind by nature.

Custom spice cabinet

I just finished this custom cabinet for holding and displaying spice jars. This is salvaged elm from the Sydney area. At one time this wood was headed for the splitter and the stove. The back is pine. I was really pleased to be asked to make this piece as a gift for a local artist.

Shaker Cabinet

This is a fairly faithful reproduction of a Shaker hanging cabinet. Local pine.

Record Cabinets

Commission for some cool folks. Rough boxes with salvaged douglas fir tops. Picture by the owner.

New Work!

Wow. Haven't posted in a while. Here's some recent work.

Sam Maloof

Sam Maloof
January 24, 1916 - May 21, 2009

Assembly and prep for raising!

Put a few half-bent sections together this week. Had some great help from Scott and Ron. Rebecca even took some time to double check my measurements for me and Anna was sure to take inventory of the mud. Photos by Jody. Raising day tomorrow...

Timberframe

Since my woodworking life is now completely taken up with the task of cutting all the joinery for the timberframe home I'm building I might as well post some pictures of the process here. Here are some shots of the progression of a dovetail in one of the main floor joists as well as a pic of the massive circular saw I have for squaring timbers and roughing out some of the joinery.

New "old" saw.

Here are a few pics of the new (to me) Disston No. 12 crosscut saw I just picked up. I've been looking for a good crosscut saw for a while and was about to fork out for a new one when I came across this one on Ebay. The gentleman who sold it to me refurbishes vintage handsaws and puts them up for auction on a regular basis. I love old tools but sometimes you run the risk of buying a very attractive but not very useful tool. Not the case here. This saw (c. 1896-1917) starts easy, cuts smooth and true and already feels very well worn... all good attributes in a saw. It is nice and clean and he did a respectable job of repairing the wooden handle. If you like to own and use vintage tools you should check out the Techno Primitives website. Check out the link in the sidebar.

Shop updates.

Shop Doors

Here's a pair of doors made of reclaimed douglas fir and new pine. The douglas fir frames are of mortise and tenon construction with floating pine panels and glass inserts. The panels are textured with a scrub plane for a nice tactile effect.

Anna

Anna's been coming down to the shop with me since before she could navigate the basement stairs solo. She has her own little bench, a collection of nails and screws and a her own stash of wood. She likes to sand wood and then glue it together. Her first serious project was a sign with her name on it for her bedroom door. Although she had lots of help from Mom and Dad she actually did a lot of the work herself. She did all the sanding, painted the stenciled letters and applied a few coats of varnish. Her next project is a similar sign for her sister; Becca doesn't like the shop nearly as much as Anna does. Today Anna did something that I didn't do until I was at least in jr. high school wood shop, she planed an edge and a chamfer (a pretty darn good one too) on a piece of pine at my bench. I showed her how to hold the plane and where the sharp bit was and she went to it. I guess now I'll know where to look when my Lie Nielsen 102 goes missing.

Contemplating the Chimney.

That's me standing in the machine room right in front of the new doors... but before any of that happens I have to smash out that darn chimney!