Woodworking

"Dusk comes too early, dawn too late. " 

- Me.

Teak stairs, rail and coatrack; cherry bench made from neighbor's tree

Mini cherry breadboard table and teak chairs

Shed 01 - a small, teak shed in Florida

Shed 02 - siding, roof on

Shed 03 - milling the teak.  

The boards were cut from left to right.  Note the shade difference caused by oxygen and sunlight after only 15m.

Shed 04 - adding underlayment and routed teak siding

Shed 05 - completed and oiled.

Slabs 01 - Setting up chainsaw and portable mill

Slabs 02 - Slabbing setup with portable mill

Slabs 03 - Slabbing cherry

Slabs 04 - chainsaw with portable mill attachment

Slabs 05 - Staked out live-edge slabs

Slabs 06 - showing before and after tung-oil varnish

Slabs 07 - Dried two years, finished with tung oil varnish (given to a neighbor who added steel-pipe legs)

Box  01 - custom box for bank note collector.  Made from one of the cherry slabs from neighbor's tree.  

About 12x10x8

Box 02 - Waterlox finish and a little Renaissance Wax.  Vertical cuts for plexiglass dividers

Box 03 - SOSS hidden hinges, and left a few handplane shavings

Mailbox 01 - first teak project

Mailbox 02 - fitting the hand cut ebony pegs

Mailbox 03 

Mailbox 04 - finishing ebony pegs

Mailbox 05 - hand cut ebony numbers

Mailbox 06 - fitting the ebony street numbers

Mailbox 07 - attaching copper mailbox to teak-ebony post

Mailbox 08 - Final mailbox.  Copper, teak and ebony.  

The copper mailbox will turn green over the years.  

Roubo bookstand 01 - pine proof of concept. 
Building a Roubo bookstand out of a single piece of wood

Roubo boosktand 02 - first cuts to outline where the hinges will be located.  Will need to cut through, then split the single piece of wood from the middle to the end, then open it up into a nifty bookstand.

Roubo boosktand 03 - cutting hinges 

Roubo boosktand 04 - shaping the edges

Roubo boosktand 05 - two first passes.  Splitting the wood open is the scary part

Roubo boosktand 06 - tung oil on the pine.  Completed a simple PoC