Projects

Making Acoustic Panels

While this is a project that is specific to those of us that make videos in our shops and want to reduce the amount of reverb (ech...
Making A Rolling Pin

With the pastry board for my butcher block table finished, I thought it would be interesting to make a rolling pin to go with it. ...
Pry Bar Knife

Recently it occurred to me that I have been spending a bit too much time in front of the computer. Doing website work, editing pro...
Can Paper Cut Wood?

This redefines “paper cut”, I guess. And while this really doesn’t have any practical applications, it was inter...
Painting T-Shirts Experiment

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while: paint a pattern onto a T-shirt with regular house paint. It happens that right now...
Making A Mini Electric Forge

First, a word of warning: this project deals with mains voltage, and if you have any doubts or concerns about working with it, thi...
Mig Welder Damascus Steel Experiment

This is something that I tried before, but really didn’t put much effort into it, and the results were less than encouraging...
Making A Cleaver From A Worn Out Saw Blade

I actually did this project a bit more than three years ago, but didn’t put a build article together for it. I also didnR...
Homemade Micarta

Micarta is a composite made from layers of various materials and held together by a plastic resin. The materials can be nearly any...
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...
Making A Wooden Patio Table

Tell me, do you want your back deck to look like the outdoor patio at your local fast food joint, or do you want it to have some n...
Making A Deck Chair

The design for this chair was something I came up with years ago. At the time, I made these (and a few other similar items) to sel...
How To Make A Box With Butterfly Lids

Or, that’s what I’m calling this, since the lid is in two parts and opens in the middle. Maybe there’s a proper ...
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...
Box With Needlessly Complex Joinery And Hand-Cut Inlay

This is a project that I’ve been wanting to do for more than a year. It’s actually inspired by the box making scene in...
OSB Stool

When I did my workbench chest of drawers with OSB drawer boxes, someone asked me if OSB could be used for making more finished thi...
Steamed Cherry VS Real Cherry

About this time last year, I bought some 4/4 maple to build my kitchen cabinets with, and while I was at the lumber place had a lo...
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...