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Completed projects.
I made this deer antler lamp using shed antlers bought from a company in Montana. I then attached the antlers to each other in a pattern I prefer, hid all the wiring, and installed the lamp hardware. The shade is made of leather.
Tiffany has been on me to make her a cutting board for a while, so I decided to make her one out of red oak. I used two different pieces of wood to give it a subtle change in color, thus adding the stripes. The board is 2" thick and measures 12X18". It is sealed with a butchers block oil which is food safe.
I also made her a cheese cutting board made of red oak and white pine. This is the board (which is half the thickness) before the routing.
I decided to make a coffee dispenser to hold all the K-cups that we have for the kitchen. I made this out of 100% wood, there is absolutely no metal in it at all. Everything is joined using wooden dowels and glue. The French doors that you load the cups in are hinged with wooden peg dowels. The bottom drawer is on a wooden dowel that serves as a pivot axle, and closes automatically via a wooden counter weight. Everything on this is very intricate. Basically, you open the French doors, stack up the coffee cups, then close it up. When you want some coffee, just look at the top of the doors and see in the windows what flavor is in which slot (they can be changed out when the doors are opened). Then open the bottom drawer, pick out a coffee, and let the drawer go. It will shut itself and another coffee cup will drop down into the drawer for the next time.
This is a blanket chest that I built, currently used as a board game storage box. It is not "completed" but has very, very little left to do to it (just installing three metal panels and sealing the bottom). The top was made from a piece of 1X12", double jointed together. I bonded a piece of 1X4 around the front and side edges to give it a look of being 2" thick while keeping it light and manageable. The edge was rough cut, then caught on fire to give it that blackened edge. I then sanded it again and applied the top coatings, sanding after each coat. Final coat was wet sanded with 3000 grit and buffed up.
The frame of the chest was done with 2X4's and 2X2's bonded together that I shaped into logs. This was done to give me a stable log that has as little water as possible in it, so it will not change shape or move. It also gives me a much easier to work with 3/4 log. I then installed the paneling with pocket hole joinery.
The top looks much more yellow in pictures than it really is. The bottom is raw right now, but will soon sport a nice semi-gloss clear poly finish. I will also have a black powder coated piece of steel installed over the paneling (under the logs) that will have a deer/bear/ and cabin in the forest silhouette scene plasma cut out of it. This panel will go under the logs and will partially cover the front and side panels.
Still under construction.
This project is a bar that I built for the living room. While it is framed up with 2X4's, it will eventually be framed with 4" round logs. The front and sides will be faced with stone (river rock) when we get moved into the new log home. The center opening houses two wine refrigerators and on either side is a cubby, which will soon have a wine rack. Both boxes on either side are lighted. The bar top will also be carved into a live edge style and will have a very intricate cabin in the forest carving in the middle.
This is a dresser that I made for Tiffany. It is big in pictures, but in real life is HUGE! This thing measures in around 7 feet long and weighs roughly 500 lbs.! When completed, the edges will be made of logs like the blanket chest. The center box (where the Wall-E robot is) is sealed off from the rest of the dresser, and will house a cedar lined laundry box. The box will have a piano hinge on the floor at the back, and will have a slide and pivot. You will be able to open the drawer by pivoting the drawer open at the top. When it gets full, you will be able to slide the drawer out and the false bottom will drop allowing the laundry to fall into a basket.
I wanted something a little different, so I hand routed a design for a nautical compass that I designed in the top, then I inlaid it with red oak and light cherry stained red oak.
I then coated the top. This was done before I figured out the burning technique on the edge, so I will end up stripping the edge and will burn it was I did with the blanket chest.
I made the drawer faces out of one piece of wood to give it a consistent pattern and color.
I then routed a bullnose on the edges of the drawers and sealed them. I also installed some home made drawer handles out of 2X4's.
(Looks very yellow in the pic. It is the camera.)
I then installed lights in the dresser so that I can get clothes out early in the AM without having to disturb Tiffany.
This is a fishing rod holder that I made. The top is simulated live edge with four of the pockets in the edge exactly the same distance apart and the same depth into the wood. This serves to hold the rods. When finished, the stand will have a wooden panel in the back that will also have a peg to hold an extra spool of line. It will also have a resistance arm that prevents the line from unspooling, turning it into a reel loading station as well as a stand. I also thought about making a few small drawers to hold lures, sinkers, and floats.
Note on the bottom there is a 3/4" notch cut out. This is to allow the stand to clear most baseboards and fit flush to the wall. I also cut out four holes in the bottom that hold the end of the rods. I inlaid red oak and cherry stained red oak to look like bobbers.
This is an old wooden box that my mom had, destroyed over time.
I have sanded it down and refinished it with a golden shellac.
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