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)
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