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Millennium Falcon Ornament
A Millennium Falcon ornament made for a Christmas gift with a fun tapered glue-up and mix of hardwoods: padauk, maple, and walnut, finished in Danish Oil. Continue reading
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Ford Logo Sign
My most ambitious inlay, a two-tone Ford logo sign made from a glued-up panel of quilted maple with walnut inlay, this turned out incredible. Continue reading
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Honda Wing Logo Coaster
One of my first CNC inlay projects–beautiful red padauk inlaid into hard maple and finished with a few coats of durable polyurethane. Continue reading
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CNC Jack-O-Lanterns
This was a fun and quick Halloween decoration using some cheap cedar fence pickets. I carved out a few different jack-o-lantern faces on the CNC and then assembled with a finish nailer and used a light coat of spray paint to leave the wood grain visible. Continue reading
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Free Jointer!
Some kindly neighbors left out 6″ jointer with a “Free” sign, and after seeing it on our walk I ran home and loaded it into the van. It’s a cast iron Delta clone made in Taiwan and with a little cleaning and greasing has been working great. This is a huge upgrade over my 4″ Continue reading
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Workbench Slots
Not long after building my workbench, I discovered a major problem with using it as my table saw outfeed table– it blocked the miter slots on the table saw, so I couldn’t use my miter gauge or cross-cut sled. D’oh. Easy solution, carefully line up a couple of guides and route out two slots into the Continue reading
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Dust Collector Closet
After I got a thickness planer, I realized I needed some way to collect all of the chips it puts out. I found a good deal on a used Harbor Freight dust collector and brought it home, but my toddler hated how loud it was. So the dust collector closet idea was born, and I Continue reading
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Child's Canoe Paddle
A mini canoe paddle I made for my son when he was 2 years old. It is made up of laminated layers of pine and fir, cut out with a jig saw and tapered with an angled jig in the thickness planer. Sealed with a few coats of spar urethane. Continue reading
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Dark Mark Sign
One of my first V-carve projects on my CNC router, I used a purchased file on a walnut panel I glued up. This was before I had a thickness planer, so I surfaced the panel on the CNC before carving. Filled with green epoxy and surfaced it back down. Continue reading
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Workbench
I put “woodworking vise” on my Christmas wish list last year, and both my dad and brother in law generously delivered. So of course I needed to build a workbench to hold my two new vises. I wanted something cheap and easy to build, so I spent an evening at the Home Depot sifting through Continue reading
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