Puzzle Box 5 - The Clock is finally completed. This is the last project that I started in North Carolina before moving to Knoxville. The oak of the bottom section was given to me by my friend Joe Scharle and the purple heart left over from the Parthenon puzzle cabinet project. This project took...
I'll post some pics of one of my favorite/most challenging builds. I went back and forth with an interior designer via sketches before finally coming up with a somewhat strange plan meant to compliment a set of chairs she had bought, and then had to figure out how to build the thing. My partner...
I was scrolling through some news articles last night and this story from the Guardian popped up, thought it may be of interest to some on this forum.
Is this the world’s greatest gate? The Gate Appreciation Society thinks so
The gate is beautiful and it's location sure doesn't hurt, but the...
A recent storm felled a white oak in my yard. It had a girth of 14.5 feet, which suggests an age of about 250 years. Half of the tree is down and cut into six-foot sections. About ten have 18-inch diameters. Another dozen measure 12 to 14 inches. You can see some of those in the picture below...
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We are very close to launching a new business that will be focused on supplying high quality hardwoods, plywoods and related woodcraft products (glues, sandpaper, blades, finishes) in our local store/warehouse in Charlotte. We are centering our focus on wood enthusiasts and hobbyists like...
Found these online and am going to use them for a feature wall!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/769092068/whiskey-barrel-stave-bourbon-barrel-wood?ref=shop_home_active_4&crt=1
this is the lumber I have to make a red oak kitchen island 3’ x 6’ x 1-1/2”. Thinking of cutting to smaller width between 3” and 4-1/4” to make up the width of the surface.
I am asking this in wood, because this fits better into the properties of the cellular structure of wood, and is not about finishing.
Several years ago a 4" diameter of oak T&G flooring got wet and remained wet for several days. The manifestations are enlarged gaps between the boards, and...
I have approximately 300 bd feet of QSWO from one log. This wood is absolutely phenomenal. I skip planed one piece and am showing the picture here. It has been kiln dried to 9% mc and is ready for sale. I am offering it for sale for the woodworkers in this forum for $2000 for the whole lot...
Hi, let's start by saying I know nothing about woodworking but sure do love looking at what you all create!
I have an acre lot here in Raleigh (Swift Creek area) and a NCSU/USFS forester has been helping me taking down leaners and thin the woods. So I have a lot of "sticks", some logs (most...
Hi, brand new to this site, more of a woodworker groupie : ). I hope I'm posting this in the right place?
I have an acre right outside Raleigh and have some trees/wood that I thought someone might like.
One is a diseased/spalted? maple that needs to come down, although no rush on it. It's not...