tag: Wood

Solid Exotic Coffee Table

Zebra Wood & Curley Maple. Finish, Rubio Monocoat Pure.

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Shaker style dining table

Made of solid Cherry, my own design, sits 4 without extensions, up to 8 with two extensions (not shown on photos).  The legs were inspired from the table shown on the Plesant Hill...

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Crafters Create Lasting Legacies in Wood

Woodworkers aren’t merely a group of tradesman toiling with wood. Woodworkers are historians, naturalists, conservators, environmentalists, foresters, businessmen and artists. Just like the life-cycle of a forest, woodworkers bring together the past and present while simultaneously creating the opportunity of new life for the future.

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Your Marketing Clean-Up Checklist

    Doug shares insightful and useful marketing tools for woodworkers looking to showcase themselves and their work in order to educate consumers about custom and increase productivity. The following article is written by CustomMade guest blogger Doug Turner of Turner Custom Furniture. Doug shares insightful and useful marketing tools for woodworkers...

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The Importance of Wood is Both Its Form and Function

A humidor will help you store your cigars for months or even years without sacrificing the quality of your smoke. But you have to know what kind of wood to use. Custom Humidor by MWB Studios on CustomMade.com All too often, gift-giving is focused on women and children. Being a woman myself, I tend to like...

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The Making of a Chess Piece: Morroccan Style

A Morroccan woodworker casually sits on the side of the road plying his trade. He makes ornate wooden chess pieces using the most basic tools: hand, foot and chisel.

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Using Quick Response "QR" Codes to Promote Your Business

Use Quick Response or "QR" codes to promote your business. They're easy to use and provide the consumer a fun, interactive way to access your information and get to know you better.

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Live Edge Inlaid Ambrosia Maple Dining Table

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Shane's Backyard Workshop

This blueprint consists of a overall close to perfect workshop. As you can see I laid out all of my machines and materials in a orderly fashion in a letter C shape. Starting at the bottom you pick...

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work in progress

 detached two car garage with a finishing room in rear seperated by sliding doors.

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UPDATE: Book Giveaway: Woodworker's Guide to Wood from Fox Chapel Woodworking

See who won a copy of Woodworker’s Guide to Wood

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Fleeting

Title: Fleeting Dimensions: 54 wide,19 tall, 7.5 deep. Materials: Mahogany, cherry, steel, brass, string This piece is part of a series that represent taking what I have learned and...

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Peruvian Walnut and American Maple Box

Carcass is Peruvian Walnut with Maple featherslips.  Top lid is Maple with Ebony handle, which is attached with wood dowels.  Front decoration is semi-inlaid river rock, glued in with...

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Custom Conference Table Design

An 18' x 5' curly ash and walnut conference table designed by Doug Turner & Coppa Dionne Design. The table features built-in electronics & a pop-up tv lift on the CEO end, as shown in picture...

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Roll Top Desk - a Kustom Original

This work of art was designed and hand crafted by Journey Man carpenter Kelly Reagh of Nanaimo BC.  This one took a few weeks to complete with all joints using traditional wood working...

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Elmers Glue

This is a piece made of scraps form another piece I made. It's a play on words, Elmers Glue as if it belonged to him.

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The Plain Truth

This is a art work I made. It's a play on words and about politics really. The wood plains are whittling away the message on the board, "The Plain Truth."

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Stellar

I glued up strips of American Sycamore, then crosscut kerfs in which I inserted contrasting strips of wood, repeating this process from varying angles. Bloodwood blocks were inserted randomly, and...

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POLITAX (Politacks politics)

This is an artwork I just made using thousands of tacks. It is called Politax and is a play on words. I was going to originial do "Politacks" then a freind said, why not make it Politax and so I did...

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