It is a display of how logs are quarter sawn. Whisky barrels are made with quarter sawn timber and they wanted to include a display on their tour about how it is milled.
They gave me a lot of freedom about how I should make the base and I am very proud of the result. I have never used brass in a project before and it goes so well with the oak!
Hey fellow woodworkers :)
Today I built a little side-table for my recording studio, so that guests can put their drinks on.
It is my first attempt at houndstooth dovetails, and it took me a ridiculous amount of time to make them.
The wood is around 35mm thick, so tricky to get everything really precise…but I am very happy how they turned out!
Woods used: Sapeli and Pine.
Happy to answer any questions 🤠
Built these custom vanities from scratch using white oak.
Started with raw sheets, broke everything down, and assembled the cases. Added solid frames, soft-close hinges, stained and finished everything to bring out the natural grain.
Took my time dialing in the proportions and keeping the lines clean with the integrated pulls.
Always satisfying seeing it go from raw material → finished piece.
What do you guys think?
I’ve been building this 12’ SUP for many years. Finally fibreglassed and nearing completion. I use the techniques from Canoe Craft book by Ted Moores and the fishbone skeleton inside was from Brad at Tucker Surf Supply.
So breathtakingly fucking stupid. Poorly secured router in a jig. It got snagged. It came loose. It bounced out at me. It ate the tip of my thumb. I got inside. Bandaged it. Fainted from pain in front of my kid. Now waiting for ride to ER.
I am so ashamed of myself.
Started this a little more than a week ago. fabricated panels of Orange Osage and Morado, and built it into a box, perfect pattern wrap around the edges. mitres were tight.
it was going great. As I was sanding it up to 400 grit, I had the idea to round over the edges.
one edge into that process I realized I had destroyed the project.
Now those perfectly pattern wrapped edges no longer match.
I am a dumbass. live and learn I guess...stick to the plan.
its still pretty cool. but damn.
I finally finished my little project for my wife’s office. We love The Great Smoky Mountains National Park so I carved this for her on our CNC at work.
Overdue project for my wife. All pressure treated which was interesting to use pocket holes one. The metal was leftover siding I had around.
Biggest project to date. Found a guy on YouTube, copied his design and used leather straps instead of cord for the seat. Will link his video in comments.
Top and upper drawer gallery is cherry with oil finish. The desk and drawers are poplar finished with milk paint and shellac.
This is a really nice carved furniture, I wonder if nowadays someone still know how to do this handmade, apart from time and money (not my case lol)
The whole thing is hand-made from scratch, unfortunately I don't have a lathe, which made the work a bit longer. I used mainly hand tools (mainly a metal saw, scalpel and files) and 2 electric tools: a disc grinder and a milling machine.
A few days ago I watched the movie with my girlfriend and we liked it so much that I decided to make her a model of the spaceship that appears in the movie.
I recommend this movie to everyone, I had a really good time watching it, it was awesome.
Mechanism of centrifuge on the spaceship is not perfectly reproduced, mainly because we have gravity on Earth lol, but it works to some extent and allows to set the ship in both gravity-by-acceleration and gravity-by-rotation modes.
Overall tell me what you think about this model?
I made an oak handle for the portafilter that came with my new espresso machine. I don’t have or know how to use a lathe, and I don’t think I have the skills to have done a good job by just going at a block of wood with saws, chisels, and files, so I made it with a jig that sat on my table saw sled and allowed me to “precisely” rough out the handle shape as octagonal slices, and sanded the approximated handle shape smooth.
Design:
I drew up the basic handle shape on Inkscape (see picture below), and divided the shape into slices proportioned to be 1 blade width wide. Each slice would be Octagonal. To add interest to the shape each slice would be rotated 5 degrees. A picture below shows my 3D blender model for the roughed out handle.
Cutting the Roughed-Out Handle:
I cut the slices with my table saw sled and a jig that consisted of two octagonal blocks that I could fasten to the ends of the 2x2x6 block of oak that I made the handle out of (see picture below). I translated the design into a blade height and an angle. For each slice I adjusted the blade height (one turn on a delta contractor saw is ¼” in height, by marking my handle I was able to set the blade height with 1/128” precision), rotated the handle 5 degrees (measured with digital angle meter), and made a cut and rotated the jig 8 times. I then shifted the jig over one blade width, 3/32”, using a micro-adjustable stop consisting of a screw that happened to advance 3/64 per rotation screwed into a scrap piece of wood clamped to the sled fence. Then I would repeat. At the top end of the handle I increased the resolution of slices by only advancing ½ or ¼ of a blade width. In all with 8 cuts per slice and 57 slices I made 456 passes with the sled.
Smoothing and Finishing:
Making the smoothed out final shape without losing the twist turned out to be challenging. I eventually hit on using 1x 1.5” squares of120 grit sand paper wrapped on a 3/8” dowel that allowed me to sand between and up to twist edges without completely wiping out the edges. I probably spent 4-5 hours sanding. When the shape was pretty smooth, I did passes with 180, 220, and 400 grit, and finished with Rubio Monocoat Pure.
The best part of any woodworking project is watching the wood come back to life. 18x6 tulip poplar salad bowl.
I have had a series of toddlers so haven't been able to give it proper love to problem areas. I'd love to fully clean it up one day. As pointed out in the other thread where I mentioned this piece, neglect has made the nooks and crannies layered with time gunk.
This isn't my only carved piece, but definitely the most intricate. There are some broken pieces on the doors but I'm impressed how much of it has survived over 100 years.
My kids know I turn into a dragon if they mess with it 😎
Super slow build (only 1 afternoon a week available) but the centerpiece of my workshop is finally done!
Low Roman bench as a bonus :)
Spending a rainy holiday in the shop, cutting dovetails for my sandpaper cabinet and praying for all the uncivilized woodworkers who cut the pins first.