Reader’s Project Gallery
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Small Keepsake Box
Wormy Mahogany Top & Bottom, Walnut Sides and Maple Splines & Handle. The box is 9″ x 5″ x 3-1/2″…
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Intarsia Pieces
These were done with only the natural color of the woods showing. There is absolutely NO artificial coloring of any type used.
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Clock and Shop
Please find attached picture of a skeletal clock I made recently for a friend’s wedding. The wood I used is Purpleheart and has been in my workshop for years, so nice to see it finally converted to something nice.
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Katrina Oak Coffee Table
This is a coffee table sculpted with my right angle grinder and fine tuned with my numb sanding fingers.
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Porch Swing
My daughter asked me to make a porch swing for her friends who had recently purchased a house. I found the Porch Swing plans from Woodworker’s Journal and made it for them.
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Doll Cabinet
I built the attached doll cabinet for my granddaughter’s All-American Doll. The cabinet is southern red oak, and the raised door panels are quarter-sawn white oak.
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Wooden Toys and Automata
I am a Guatemalan retired civil engineer and make wooden automata and toys as a pastime. Attached are some examples.
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Recycled Lumber Projects
Here are a few pictures of my latest projects. The first is a reproduction Shaker clock made from pine salvaged from a packing crate. The next project is a Shaker hall table.
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Inlay Projects
Genie bottle: Oak and Black Walnut; Southwest platter: Cherry, holly, black walnut, bloodwood, ebony
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Tabernacle
Here is a tabernacle that I built for the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle. It is made of Zebra and lined with Cedar with a wenge cross that comes out so that they can put cloth over the tabernacle.
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Sculpted Leg End Table
I enjoy doing wood sculpting and decided to give it a go for making sculpted legs for a end table I wanted to build.
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Reclaimed Walnut Jewelry Chest
This is a jewelry chest that I recently made for my daughter. All but the drawer rails are from reclaimed 2″ walnut posts.
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Butternut Dresser
A co-worker brought me a night stand and asked if I could make a dresser to match. It seems that his father-in-law started making him and his wife a bedroom suite but fell ill before he got the dresser done.
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Busker Crank Organ
The attachment show a Busker Crank Organ I recently completed. The organ was designed by John Smith of the UK.
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Folding Adirondack Chairs
These are folding Adirondack Chairs that are made of Cedar and finished with a Behr Cedar Natural Tone 501 product.
