I've been wanting to try my hand at some carving so I created a project need to be able to do that. My kids have been saving their gift money in jars for our next trip to Disney World and I thought it'd be fun to give them a cooler place to store them.
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The Big Build Off is a competition hosted by the Instagram Builder’s Challenge that I had the privilege of being invited to participate in! The challenge is to build a dining table and donate it to a family in need. I’m building a Nakashima inspired cherry and walnut dining table.
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I made some epoxy charcuterie boards with lichtenberg figures with some help from a friend. Epoxy boards are already super cool, but the lichtenberg figures really take them to a new level! Many thanks to Adam from MoDiggs for helping with this project, and TotalBoat for sponsoring.
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This enclosed raised garden is easy to work in, provides 100 square feet of gardening space, and with the fencing and bird netting is protected any neighborhood critters that may eat your vegetables like deer and birds.
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This is an epoxy coffee table with live edge walnut slabs, blue epoxy resin, a steel base, and multicolor LEDs! It was a lot of fun and I love the result, especially how the LEDs shine through the epoxy and silhouette the walnut slabs if the lights are dim.
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This video is full of tips to speed up your builds! I highlight time saving tips to woodwork faster while I built a triangular olive slab table at Lakeside Woodwork's shop. This was a collab with Bruce Ulrich and he built another table from the same slab with different features and even more tips on how to woodwork faster!
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Here's how I made 100 beer flight boxes for Cartridge Brewing! These are solid walnut and feature rabbet joinery reinforced with once fired 9mm casings, branded leather badges that are brass tacked on, and a chalkboard to label the libations that Catridge Brewing will serve in the boxes! I mean, how could I make beer flight boxes for a brew pub called Catridge Brewing that's going in an old ammunition factory and NOT use brass casings in it somewhere? If you're in the Cincinnati area or just love great beer, be sure to follow instagram.com/cartridgebrewing or https://cartridgebrewing.com to visit them as soon as they open in 2020!
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Installing a byrd shelix cutterhead in my vintage jointer was an upgraded I've been planning to do eventually. But after throwing a knife from the old clamshell, I decided it was a sooner rather than later kind of upgrade! Then I realized I'd also need to install a new motor, new mount.. this project kept growing. But man, does my jointer cut nice now!
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Wooden spoons are a quick and great gift to make and give! I mean, who doesn't use wooden spoons? Only people who don't have them, so a perfect gift for them would be to carve a spoon! If you have any tools, you can probably find a way to make a spoon. In this video I make a handful of spoons using a hodgepodge of tools, feel free to mix and match based on what you have to see what you can come up with!
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Wine is a classic holiday gift and this is a pretty easy way to class it up with a hand made touch! The beauty of working with leather is it doesn't require many tools to get started and if you can follow lines and handle a needle, that's about all the skill needed to get started!
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I wanted a dog treat to keep treats handy for working my new pup, going on walks, or when we're out at the dog park.. so I made these two leather pouches! One has an open slot so there's no fasteners or pulls to mess with to get treats out. The other leather pouch is more typical with two snap fasteners and a fold over flap. Don't need a treat bag? No problem! Just size the pieces for whatever you want to put in a pouch and make one that fits perfectly.
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How to sharpen a card scraper and even make one. Why make one when they’re so cheap? Well, sometimes you’ve got a piece that a typical card scraper just won’t get, or you have a batch project and a made to fit would really speed things up! In that case, making one is the way to go.
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I bought a 1965 Avion T-27! Getting it home and somewhere I could work on it was quite the adventure and required a LOT of work! But, I’m super excited about getting this thing back into useable shape for my family to enjoy.
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This is about how to make live edge boards into epoxy resin cutting boards! But really, any boards will do. I'm using some air dried walnut and total boat epoxy with black diamond pigments to make these live edge epoxy cutting boards.
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My neighbor's house was in serious need of a deck restoration so they asked me to help them out. I've been wanting to restore a deck, so I jumped on it and they loved the results.
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