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What are friends for?
My friend Russ is a very talented person. He builds computers and is a very good musician. His other talent is thinking up things for me to build him. He has a Hammond SK1 organ but would really like...
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A Child's Kitchen
This is a project that I built for a teacher friend to use in her school classroom. She could use it as long as she taught, but it had to be returned when she retired, which she did this year. It is...
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New and old jigs for making Andy's Palm Boxes.
The one item that I enjoy making is the Palm Boxes by Andy. I have made 40 at one time to sell for a church fund raiser. The nice thing is it is a great scrap wood project. I have a large national...
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Bent wood Bracelets, Tricks and jigs.
I wanted an item to make in the basement that would not require power tools, easy, cheap and with the potential to make some money. I started by making a couple of bent wood rings and found them very...
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Dremel Router Table
There are times that you do not have the money for a new tool or the tool does not exist. So I just go and make what I need. I have started making bent wood bracelets, but there is just so much you can...
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Sewing machine motor lathe
I have tried to make bent wood rings, but in sanding I end up with flat spots. I thought that if I could find a small CHEAP lathe to spin the ring while I sand them, I would be able to have a more...
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ONE THING THAT LEADS TO ANOTHER!!!!!
I have been learning how to make bentwood rings. They are not easy. So I made my first plain ring, then did one with two different woods, then one with an inlay. Now I wanted to make one using a...
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Bracelet Display
I make bent wood bracelets. I showed them to a lady that owns and operates a beauty salon ( ladies version of a barber shop ). She want to display and sell them for me. I said O.K., but I needed a way...
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The Bear rings up another one.
The wood in this ring is Anigre. In all of my other rings I have use fumed eucalyptus wood. This is very dark in color. Almost a blackish brown. The Anigre veneer I have is very flexible so I do not...
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Storage, Storage and more Storage.
My customer had need of some very different and very custom cabinets. The first cabinet is an addition to an existing bathroom vanity. This is his teenage daughters bathroom. She needed to storage all...
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From Pinterest to Reality.
As I have said before, I enjoy making palm boxes. To spice them up, I made a pantograph to engrave the lids. To do this I have to have a pattern. I can use my scroll saw to make most of my patterns,...
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Free wood put to good use.
I was given 2 pieces of 2” x 6” x 16’ very nice red oak. I did not have a project in mind, but free wood is free wood. I started looking at the condition of the podiums in my Sunday School class and...
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You are WELCOME.
My church has needed a formal Welcome Center for sometime. We looked for a unit to buy, but they wanted $7,000.00 for one made from MDF. So I just used their design and built it for less than $900.00....
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Amazing Grace
Have a mission trip planned in July to Pittsburg, Pa. Only trouble is I have to pay for it. I have made other items in the past to pay my way on other trips. In looking for things to make I wanted to...
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Replacing your kerfmaster for multiply cuts.
I had posted a project where I was making crosses to raise money for a mission trip. I made 31 of them. I made a fence that was the idea behind this one, but all of the stop blocks were held in place...
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It is not fancy, but it is practical.
Needed a ramp for the truck to move my riding lawn mower from my house to my daughter’s house and back. She cannot afford a lawn mower at the moment and the wife enjoys cutting the grass. I looked at...
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Prized Bats
I have a grandson that will be a major league baseball player in the future. He is a high school senior that just signed a full scholarship with Georgia Tech for baseball. It is very unusual to receive...
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Plywood lift
I enjoy woodworking and my shop. The small things are no problem, but how do you lift and cut a sheet of 3/4”x 4’ x8’ plywood that weighs about 80 pounds. You make a jig that handles it for you. I had...
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What do you do when the organ dies?
Answer: You build a new one. Well, a new console for the keyboards. About 2 years ago the church pipe organ died from old age. They are expensive to maintain and more to rebuild. We have nice keyboards...
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Cheap track saw
I cannot believe that I am doing two post in one week. Too much time on my hands. I have made a number of edge guides for my skill saw and have lusted after one of the fancy track saw sets. My eyes are...
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