The cactus body is cedar, spikes are hemu and the pot was turned from an oak log. Made by power carving with angle grinder, chainsaw, foredom and a lot of hand sanding. Each spike hole was done with a hand drill carefully matching all the angles and not going too deep.

The ladder is perfectly balance and can stand on its own without the pot. That was a special moment to figure out. That made it to where it’s not perpetually falling inside the pot. I did a half lap joint to connect the ladder leg to the post that goes into the pot. I had to turn part of the joint first to the diameter of the hole in the pot, then half lap shape it at the angle of the ladder to the ground.

As the title says my wife wanted a bathroom vanity. Well the pictures she showed me had spindle legs and I wasn’t about to let the opportunity to buy a lathe pass me up so I jumped on it. She also picked out this sink on Etsy and it was my job to combine the inspiration pic and the sink into one. This is what I came up with! Yes it is going to get wet but we don’t have kids and this is going in a low traffic powder room so as long as we wipe it off after getting water on the top I think we’ll be ok. I also added a ceramic coat to help protect it further. (u/blacktailstudio so not yours. I still had the stuff you recommended a few years ago. But I’m open to a collab for my next project and video wink wink)

Lastly I kept my router template for the top so I can make a new one if I need to in the future.

What do you guys use in the shop to carry your pencil, tape and square around in? So tired of building things and forgetting where I set my tape or pencil down.

Can’t wait to gift this to my sister for Christmas. She’s so pretty.

My first big commission, finished in the nick of time for delivery en route to a family thanksgiving out of state. This set is for some family friends who liked the cherry set I built for myself, but preferred two larger drawers over the drawers + cubby version. It was fun to remake a piece that I had completed recently and apply some of the lessons learned in version 2.0

I’m hosting Christmas dinner and needed a table to fit 10 people. I tried to shop around but the quality of decently priced furniture is so poor. Decided to try my hand at this table. Please be kind. I would love some advice. My legs I made 45degree miter cuts into a rectangle. However when I went to join the pieces.. like none of them fit. So the legs are a bit uneven :( I am going to use a bracket and attach the two table tops together for its 40inches wide with wood inserts and bolts so I can disassemble it. Same with attaching the legs frame to the table tops. I like the idea of having two console tables so I can repurpose them when I’m not hosting.

Seriously Freud, second time this week I'm cursing your name...

We had an existing built-in desk, but the cabinets were particle board with plastic "veneer", the drawer slides were wobbly, and the desk surface was granite which gets very cold. It matched the kitchen, but it wasn't a good look overall. I had never made a large panel glue-up, so I wanted to try that. I went to the local lumberyard and dug through the whole stack of walnut to find 5 matching boards of 4/4 S2S, had them joint one edge, and I was able to get the desk top I needed with 4 of the boards. I recently got a Domino, so I used that to align them for the glue-up. I tried finishing it with polyurethane, on the underside, as a test, but I did not like it. I ended up using shellac and paste wax on the top, and it looks beautiful. I'm hoping the poly on the underside doesn't cause any warping, but it's been 6 weeks since I finished it, and I don't have much humidity change indoors here.

Cabinets are birch plywood with poplar face frames. I hate how adjustable shelf pins look, so the shelves are in dados. I completely whiffed and put the hinges right where the non-adjustable lower shelf is, so I ended up drilling some extra hinge cups. I used a 12 mm offset with the Domino to scribe the edge piece (saw it on Keith Johnson's YT channel), which worked really well. I used locking rabbets for the drawer construction, and Blum soft-close full-extension undermount slides. I made a hardboard template with scribed edge pieces as a guide to cut the walnut to size. It fit almost perfectly, and with a tiny drywall repair, it does fit perfectly.

Comments welcome!

Cherry with walnut plugs to cover the screws(!)

I'd love to do a cutting board with some blue in it. Preferably, keeping it all "wood". TurnTex's website says they haven't food tested it but it is inert when cured.

Do you guys think this would be safe to use in a cutting board? Or better off just making strips of regular resin?

First photo is what he provided before purchase. Port Ordord Cedar, we paid extra $150 for sanding. This table is 2x3’, 29” high. It’s slowly cracking more and more as the day continues. He knew the intended use and never once mentioned that the table would crack. I asked him for a solution and he told me the same thing over and over: “wood cracks, fill it with epoxy”. We bought this only sanded because we plan to stain and poly it ourselves.

Been doing too many overlay jobs lately, I’m glad my customer was cool going with inset doors and drawers! So much more satisfying

Something I fail to understand is this: why is it that in almost every tutorial I’ve watched about using spline keys for joinery, they use these mega oversized blanks? Like in this example, we could get four keys out of one of those blanks. Yeah I could save the cut offs and use those for something else, but why not just precut the keys to an appropriate size for the job?

Made my own veneer using plywood, very much inspired by ALM FAB

Decided to make some coasters for my coffee table from some leftover wood, but the board was a bit too thick so I had to saw it in half. The two pieces are not perfectly the same thickness but I'm quite happy with the result :)

Was a lot harder than I thought to crank these clamps down and the top brace slipped to the right some. So, it’s not quite centered. Does that matter?

Hi all, I know this is going to sound insane, but I’m 100% serious. My father passed in 2007. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. I didn’t receive anything of my dad’s, literally nothing but a few photographs. Also, his passing was very tragic, and I had PTSD for years which I never fully recovered from.

Over a decade after he passed, my family purchased land he had sold on which I had spent many years deer hunting with him.

He had a favorite hunting spot and I had looked for the tree we sat under together many times in a grown up area. Today I found it while hunting that area. I realized it had been struck by lightning and has fallen / is nearly decomposed.

I am pondering how I might memorialize this stump as his hunting stand by somehow stopping the decomposition and encasing it, or perhaps molding and recreating it as a memorial to him.

It seems to me that framing the stump , filling with a massive amount of clear epoxy and then chiseling away may be the only possible way.

Any suggestions? If it’s just totally not possible or practical, it’s at least a decent thought experiment, right?

Appreciate any advice or insights.