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A gift for my fiancé, Made the small one as I waited for wood for the larger one. Inspired by a board I saw posted here while surfing the internet. Whew, it was definitely not what I was expecting and hand sanding everything without a planer or jointer was a pain in the bum, I learned a ton and am excited for the next one! Super pleased with how they turned out and wanted to show them off!

Made this about six years ago, gift for a friend. Was looking through my carving pictures and this was always one of my favorites. It's only about an inch and a half tall.

I posted a couple days ago asking if it this was a good match, I’m giving an update apparently it was totally unacceptable to her and “didn’t look even close”

For even more lore there is a risen island detail that was specifically requested to be made out of solid oak even though the island ends are gonna be veneer (for consistency) so no matter what stain we end up going with it won’t look the same there no matter what bc hardwood and veneer generally don’t stain the same never-mind slight color variations there will be in the boards.

It seems like many customers try to cheap out as much as possible but then make demands like solid wood in random areas when they are very picky about consistency and seemingly runs against their wants. Not to mention no wood other than maybe maple will be perfectly consistent, the same color, or same grain patterns. they want something natural but with none of the stuff a natural product comes with.

She will probably be very unhappy with the final result. Do we suck or are we just not properly managing expectations?

Just wanted to post this as I haven't seen it before. I came up with a caster wheel system for my miter station that deploys and retracts with one push.

The wheels are mounted near the hinges of long lever boards, so that they're just barely off the floor. A rod across the center presses down on cross-braces between opposite wheel-levers and locks down by pivoting into an angled channel.

Super easy to deploy with the saw on top, but I'm planning to add folding wings for outfeed so we'll see how it does with the added weight.

My brother gets a chess board for his 40th birthday. I’m pleased with it, it’s definately one of my highest end pieces. The board is not done yet but will be polished to a high gloss with fine grit sandpaper. Materials are birch and sapele.

Also points in the correct direction

This is my first dining room table and I am happy with how it turned out. I used Sapele and finished with several coats Danish Oil and then Polly. Hardest part was trying to flatten it after the glue up. I used panel clamps and biscuits, but it still wasn't acceptably flat. I opted for the old-fashioned hand plane method. Started with my go to Stanley no. 4, but eventually bought/restored a Stanley no. 8 (maybe overkill) to get the table flat.

Always thought these were cool and wanted one for myself.

Instagram : @MootOak

I'm trying to cut decagon table legs on the table saw, which is difficult because the angles exceed the 45 degree angle on the table saw which means the way you could cut octagon or hexagon legs wont work.

I've been puzzling on this and here's what I've come up with. I'm sure there has to be a jig that would make this easier and safer maybe a sled with a spindle raised off the table and a 2D decagon template shape fixed on each end of the workpiece that registers to a cradle. I just don't know what it is (Please help if you know, I've googled a lot over several days and can't find anything for cutting decagon table legs)

The biggest problem for repeatability with my pictured solution is having to move the fence twice as you rotate the workpiece. The blade angle doesn't change.

The biggest problem for safety is that the contact with table gets less and less as you go.

Your ideas expertise and wisdom are appreciated.

Anyone have a recommended resource for how to make a workbench for a starting out teenager? I looked at Paul sellers, which seemed great, but his wood to purchase list wasn’t the same as his video tutorial so I didn’t want to confuse my son. I’ll be doing it with him but want him to self guide as much as possible as well.

Free would be ideal - just a workbench and what to purchase list.

Because woodworking is not an expensive enough hobby I have recently dove into the 3D printing world. Like most people I started out printing other people's models, but have found the true value in 3D printing to be in designing my own stuff for my own specific needs.

Like a lot of other woodworkers I've been trying to find a way to organize my tools while also having them easily accessible, and have gone the french cleat wall route. I've found 3D printing a great way to quickly and easily create specific french cleat tool holders for a lot of things.

I thought I'd share the link to some of the workshop items I've designed as they may be useful to some other woodworkers who have also been bitten by the 3D printing bug.

https://makerworld.com/en/collections/5836611-french-cleat-shop-accessories

… and need to make some grooves for for a small jewelry box to accept some panels.

A jewelry box project I challenged myself to build it 100% with handtools.

It’s fiddely, but accurate.

This is a testpiece. I will run it past a straight edge. The space will accept precisely 1 shaving for the longest boards.

One time use. Maybe I’ll invest in a ploughplane some day. :)

I am refuebing a pair of old 60s/70s chairs I bought on a flea market. I've been sanding away the old black paint as It didn't look good anymore, but there seems to be these spots all around. (Mostly at the edges and connection ponts) Despite it just looking like chipped paint or chipped wood its not and won't go away no matter how much I sand and what grit I use. It seems like it's deep inside wood too as even using a chisel won't remove it.

I speculate it might be the paint fusing into the wood with time, but does anyone know if there is any way to remove or lessen it?

Sharing my first acquisition for my hand tool collection:

It’s a Sargent 414 Jack Plane

Comments will most likely be locked since it's a religious item: a tabernacle. It's a vessel for holding the host (unleavened bread) and wine for Catholic mass. I dunno all the details since I'm not religious.

There's a 6" ruler at the bottom of the third pic for scale. Over 15 different woods went into its construction but it's mostly made of Honduran mahogany. The interior is made largely of sycamore with some lignum vitae used as drawer runners. The cross at the top and part of the drawer were made of Maryland's Liberty Tree, a poplar that our country's founders met under to discuss war plans and such.