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Upcycled Shop Stool Using An Old Office Chair Base
My wife was cleaning up our daughters old room and came lugging out an old office chair that the kids had destroyed at some point. Instead of taking the base to the dump with the rest of it I decided...
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Walnut Urn For My Mom
Met at the funeral home Sunday to discuss arrangements for my mother and we looked at the urns they had on display. My siblings decided they thought I should build her one instead…this is the result....
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Letters To Santa Mailbox For Local Elementary School
On a trip to Nashville last year my wife spotted a “letters to Santa Mailbox” in the lobby of the hotel we stayed at. She decided that she needed one for the school that she is principal of. Well after...
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Cedar Chests From Reclaimed Wood
Last spring my nephew and I salvaged some cedar out of a early 1900’s farmhouse that had been donated to the local fire department for live burn training. Varying widths but all 3/4” thick. Needless to...
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Row Boat Bookcase
Build this for my son for Christmas. Saw a Amish one similar to this on a trip to Pennsylvania last year and thought he would like it. Didn’t have a plan so just sort of made it up as I went along. 30”...
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Christmas Cedar Chest For My Daughter
A buddy of mine asked me if I would build his 3 daughter in law’s some cedar chests for Christmas and i told him absolutely…. Steve is the kind of fellow who will do almost anything to help a friend...
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In Case Of Emergency Shadow Box
It dawned on me this past week that I hadn’t made my wife anything for Christmas and time was quickly running out. I had seen one of these with a small bottle of Jack Daniels in it and thought it was...
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Scrap Wood Chairs
After completing phase one of a ongoing deck project, I had a bunch of 5/4 deck board cut offs that were begging to be used for something. A couple of years back I used the popular mechanics plans to...
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Small Solid Cherry Bookcase...Some Assembly Required
My wife got a new desk for her office and was looking at small bookcases online to match it. Always being the guy who doesn’t know when to stay quite, I offered to build her one if she wanted me to. Of...
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Pizza Peel For My Daughter
Like a bad penny, I keep turning up…lol A while back my daughter was admiring some peels that her favorite pizza place in Charlotte had hanging on the wall. I uttered the infamous words that had doomed...
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From Firewood To Retirement Gift
It’s become a habit of mine to make candy dispensers for people who are retiring from our department at work. This may be the last one I make since I have went from being the new guy to senior grumpy...
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Gift Display Plaque
My kids had given me a couple of unique Christmas gifts over the last couple of years. Year before last my daughter gave me the engraved hammer and then last year my son brought me the enameled tiger...
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Cedar Chest For My Son's Wedding
My son has decided to marry his college sweetheart. It’s going to interesting since he is in the Navy and stationed in Japan but they believe they can make it work so I am on board with it. When I was...
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Guitar Rack For My Son In Law
Friend of mine brought me some cedar to build a chest with. Some of it was pretty thin and wound up only being 1/2 to 5/8ths thick once it was planed. So I laid it aside knowing I would eventually find...
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The Cherry NCNH (Needlessly Complex Napkin Holder)
My father in law came over for dinner one night and my wife got out the fancy napkins she uses when company comes over. We usually just use a paper towel since my wife put her foot down over me just...
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Pizza Peel V.2 Maple, Cherry And Walnut
Had some thin strips of maple and cherry left over from the first peel build so decided to make another. Did learn from the first build, did the initial glue up in two sections so I could run them...
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Inexpensive Solar Light Grave Markers
My wife lost her mother at the end of last year and a buddy of mine lost a infant granddaughter… Made these solar powered grave markers for them to use until the headstones were set in place . The...
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Pine Trash Bin
Finally got tired of the lid falling off the kitchen trash can… problem solved…lol. Just designed it around the old trash can. pretty basic build but reminded me how hard pine is to finish.
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Navy Grumman E4D Hawkeye Challenge Coin Holder
My son is a Navy avation structural mechanic (AM or airframer) stationed in Japan. He is assigned to a Hawkeye squadron and collects challenge coins like alot of his fellow servicemen. Thought it would...
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Maple And Walnut Cake Knife And Server Set
Had some maple and walnut scraps left over from some other projects so used them to make some cake knife and server sets. Never did these before but got a lot of advice from my buddies…” the thinner...
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