Fun & Interesting

Wooden Door Handle Test Apparatus!

This one was mostly for fun, but it does help to illustrate a point. In my wooden cabinet door handle video, I got a few comments ...
Making A Branding Iron

I’ve wanted to do this for a while, more or less just to try it out to see how difficult it would be and how well it would w...
The More Impossible Dovetail Joint

This is an idea that I wanted to try after watching Jack Houweling’s video a while ago, and the recent Clickspring video bro...
Scrap Wood Treasure Box

This project came about as a result of a group collaboration with more than twenty other woodworkers on YouTube. The idea was to m...
Veneer my Wooden Computer Case

Some time ago, I bought veneer on Ebay – smaller pieces, several sheets in each bundle. I thought it was a very good deal an...
Wooden Tongs

Here’s a fun little project that came about after I pinched my hand one-too-many times with cheap metal tongs. They are easy...
Making A Knife From A Broken Shovel

This project, like so many others, came to me while I was working on something else and uses an idea that I’d wanted to try ...
Making Pancakes!

Now for something a bit different, a cooking project. I’ve been making pancakes for roughly 40 years and have tried many dif...
Making A Wooden Chain With Box Joints

This is a project that just occurred to me while watching a video on strength testing a wooden chain. That’s the power of vi...
Making A Wooden Utility Knife

This is one of those projects that you would do just because you love making things out of wood and for the challenge. You probabl...
Making A Quick And Dirty Band Saw Mill

This project is a bit different from most I’ve done, in that I didn’t take pictures of each step in the build. Instead...
A Multi-Wheel Band Saw (Experimental Build)

Occasionally, I’ll get an idea and it will nag at me until I try it out. For better or worse, this build is a perfect exampl...
Making A VERTICAL Chainsaw Mill

This started as an idea after making my homemade band saw mill and comparing the apparent inefficiency of that to the simple chain...
Worm Gear Drive Experiment

Making a worm gear drive presents some new challenges. The first is how to create the worm gear itself, and this was covered in th...
Cutting Wooden Threads

I’ll admit, I have been a bit obsessed with cutting threads. I have tried two different methods to do it: one was a stand al...
How to Make a Wooden Nut

Occasionally, I get a little overwhelmed by all of the things that I could be doing and, as a result, don’t get anything don...
Making A Wooden Damascus “Steel” Knife

This one started on a whim, just to test out the idea of making something that looks like damascus steel from thin layers of wood....
Wood Trimmed Keyboard

My computer setup for everything I do is different from most, in that I do everything from a reclining easy chair using a wireless...
Do It Yourself Waterfall

A Project By April Wilkerson What would you make if you were given a 2.5′ x 2.5′ piece of glass with your company logo...