A segmented bowl made entirely from scrap wood, plus an epoxy resin and scrap wood feature ring. This incorporates 2 different design aspects that I’ve been wanting to play with including epoxy resin used as segments and an organic flowing shape within a bowl. I still want to play around with the epoxy resin segments a little more in a …
Pallet Wood (diamond pattern) Coasters
“Too much work for coasters”, “Hell with that”, “I believe an apology is in order!”, “What a crazy guy”, “Surely that’s not economically viable”. These are just a few of the handpicked comments that this project has generated so far. That said, I appreciate the compliments and also the reinforcement that I’ve set the bar exactly as intended, now let’s …
Power Carved Giant “Boot Print”
Before being separated, the panel that this piece came from was laminated from 57 boards of white/red oak that were reclaimed from horse fencing from a farm in Pennsylvania. The concept for the final piece is that, through power carving with the use of Arbortech Tools, the panel will look like windswept sand with a giant Carolina boot print in …
Pallet Wood Penny Boards
100% reclaimed pallet wood Penny Boards! Another thing that the world has never asked for, it’s kind of my specialty. These custom Penny Board style skateboard decks are made entirely from laminated reclaimed pallet wood. Each board is unique just by the virtue of the materials being used! Every board is a random mirrored lamination of different species of hardwood, …
Reclaimed Wood Wall Map
Ohh maps, I could literally sit around all day and explore google maps and not even miss dinner. I have many flaws and this might be one… Anyway, ever since moving to DC I’ve been wanting to do some sort of a project incorporating the streets of the city. The layout of the streets and even the shape of the …
Carving a Giant Utility Knife (entirely out of wood)
Inspired by the giant utility knife blade created by Jimmy Diresta (https://youtu.be/qWZwaJ3sg30), and the Stanley knife that it was modeled after, I created this giant knife perfectly to scale and entirely out of wood because stupid challenges are often the most rewarding. Put that on a t-shirt, or don’t (probably don’t). As soon as I saw Jimmy create the blade …
“The Giving Tree” Power Carved Log Bench
It’s not often that I get to do a limited tools projects (this one is about as good as that gets). It’s also even less often that I just start a project with no plan from the beginning. I figured why not just hit both at the same time while I was out hanging out with Jimmy Diresta for the …
“Live Edge” Pallet Wood and Maple Burl Cookie Wall Art
This piece is a table top or bench top idea that has been kicking around in my head for years and it evolved into what you saw me build in this video. I decided to go larger scale for a wall hanging piece for the Carolina Shoe offices. There are 2 materials joining together in the center at the Carolina …
Ultimate Router Table & Storage Cabinet (table saw extension wing)
This is a super versatile router lift and storage cabinet built around the Rockler ProLift router lift that lives in the extension wing of my table saw accompanied with some t-track. Here’s some of the intricacies of my design: The wider t-track was notched out to allow for the t-bolts from the fence to slide into the blue t-track. I …
Epoxy Inlay and Rustic Compass Butcher Block Countertops
So this countertop is actually a set of 3 pieces that are kind of like table leaves. I made these for my friends who live in a fairly small house that lacks countertop space and this is meant to help with that. These will sit on top of a half wall that runs around the perimeter of a set of …
“Floating” Lumber Rack
Get the template to make your own! This lumber rack is “floating” in that each piece is attached to the wall separately and there is no main member between any of them. The benefit of this is a little bit of space savings against the wall, but also the fact that when boards are pushed all the way back, there …
Patchwork Plywood and Ebonized Oak Dresser
This dresser is made entirely from plywood, plus some reclaimed oak for the frame. Plywood is always a pain in the butt to haul though, so I decided to make the entire dresser with only 2’x4′ handy panels that I could get shipped to my house (Purebond plywood). This also gave me the ability to play with some really cool …