Workbench project
Is underway. i started with some old, nail-sick, UGLY beams from a garage that fell down, old age. enough for four legs and some other [...]
Plank Table
The "Other Half" wanted a small Prep table for the kitchen. I had a plank of Oak out in the shopabout 13-1/2' wide. I clean the old boy up, trimmed off the [...]
Blanket Chest
From a few old Oaken barn rafters? Yep, after pulling a few pounds of nails, resawing down to about 3/4" thick, and planning down nice and smooth, I wound up with a [...]
Reclaimed wood
Black Cherry, resawn from a floor joist. Quartersawn White Oak, from a barn rafter. Glued up the Cherry into a panel, cut handles in the QSWO , and miter [...]
Cedar Chest
Out of Aromatic Red Cedar. I started with several rough sawn 8/4 by 6" wide boards. milled down into something my small shop could work with. "Plan" [...]
Homemade table saw fence
With just three pieces of scrap wood. The oak cleat rides on this Dewalt Jobsite Tablesaw's fence rail. The plywood triangle has a factory edge and a [...]
A crate from Brazil?
Yep, it supplied the wood for asmall cabinet. The flat panels are just 1/4' luann plywood, from a different "crate", but the solid wood parts came from a [...]
Pine kitchen island
Just $28 in pine, from Menards. The two shelves are panels sold at Menards. The legs are resawn from a 2×4. The [...]
Kitchen island?
And for less than $30! It can be done. I went to the local Menards store and got a few pieces of pine. A glue-up panel, 1x16x36, and [...]
A clamp for odd shapes
For things like chair or stool legs. Yep, there are band clamps out there, if you want to spend some cash. Being the frugal (CHEAP) guy that I am, I use something from the shop [...]
Some older tables
A few pictures of some older tables I've made. Mainly a Shaker design, just simple tables. This one has been in a grandkid's room for [...]
