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Design journal: A tea box gets a face lift
2 commentsRevisiting an old design is a great opportunity to push the envelope, even if you were happy with the first try.
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Jewelry Box Recycled White Oak and Cedar
1 commentThe box was made from recycled white oak flooring and offcuts from a cedar fencing project. New to box making I wanted to test my latest shop jig for cutting mitres. I joined the sides using the...
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Chinese Checkers
This is my first try at making a game board. The lady that asked me to make a chinese checker board for her husband, gave me the creative freedom to do what I wanted. This was the final product...
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Walnut wallet and change box
Box body was made from a piece of black walnut, beind the 'contractor wood' rack, collecting dust. I was pulling out the new stuff, to get to those pieces they put beind, for small project guys...
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"For Frank"
I was very lucky this summer to have toured Frank Llyod Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The house and property are absolutely breathtaking. While on the tour of the main house...
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Skeletons in your cupboard
1 commentJewelry cabinet with watch winders.This walnut and spalted beech cabinet sits on an oak stand with cocobolo highlights.The drawer fronts (ribs) are sculpted in spalted beech with hard maple...
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A Simple Lift-Lid Box
1 commentJust started doing woodworking with some small box projects, I am using a book from Doug Stowe and one from Jim Stack as a reference. This box is from the Doug Stowe book, I just made it a little big...
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Butterfly boxes
Hi All This was a specially made small batch of five boxes, commissioned by the Designyard in Dublin, for one of their clients. They liked our Oak Furnace trinket boxes that are on display at the...
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My workshop
3 commentsI want to show you all my workshop. The room is actually a storage room in my flat, apprpriately placed far from my landlords sleeping an living rooms. Some tools: Bench Lathe from Woodfast. Small...
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Weekend lantern project
1 commentTransform an inexpensive IKEA glass lamp with this simple, elegant and easily customized hardwood shroud. Makes a great intro to mortise and tenons for kids, so enlist your "apprentice" to cut the side panels and tenons.
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Tool Box : apprentice piece in oak
4 commentsWell if an architect can do an aprentice pieece at 50!. I based them (one for the Mrs and one for me) on the ubiquitous design with machine cut dovetails on the drawers. Oak and Maple with oil...
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Keeper Box
1 commentI made this box for my friend's wife to house her collection of theraputic stones. The box is made primarily of walnut. The side, back panels and drawer fronts are veneered with a beautifully...
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Brookwood Box
7 commentsWHITE OAK MACHINIST BOX Zebra wood with custom aluminum handles. Box lid latches internally and secures the drawers by a quarter turn on main knob. Side handles are built into the frame to...
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A little box
A little "candle box/match holder". Scraps from a resawn 4/4 piece of oak.
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Shaker oval boxes and other furniture
Everything made is of Shaker inspired design. I have made many Shaker pieces over the years. Oval boxes are made of various domestic and exotic woods.
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Artist's Paintbrush Boxes
1 commentOur son, an artist, was splitting firewood when he spotted some pretty grained oak. I saved the pieces and used that wood to make him these two paintbrush boxes. Construction is...
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Jewelry Box
1 commentJewelry box inspired by Arts and Crafts windows, fumed white oak, maple and wenge with red glass accent -tung oil finish
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Treasure Box
1 commentThis is a Treasure Box of fumed quarter-sawn white oak. It has finger joints and shop-made hinges. The top is zebra wood.
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tool box
This is an old shipping crate that my grate grandparents used to ship their belongings in when they immigrated from England. The actual box is 21wx42lx24d and made of pine. It's held...
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Magazine boxes
Here is a different take on magazine storage. My wife stacks them under the living room table, so I came up with something that could hold them and allow you to slide them under the...
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