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Category Archives: Woodworking
Dog Kennel End Table
We have an 8-month-old Poodle/Bichon/Shit Tzu puppy named Gracie, and she has shown that she isn’t old enough to be trusted alone in the house. Even with her 6-year-old surrogate mom Diva around, she gets into too much trouble. Restraining … Continue reading
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A Miniature Wooden Dresser
I belong to a website called Worth1000 that holds art contests. They recently held a “Make a Small Wooden Box” contest, and I entered this: It’s made out of a 5″x3″x3″ block of maple from a rejected baseball bat blank. … Continue reading
Posted in Woodworking
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New Christmas Trees
The setting up the Christmas tree is always a big deal in our house. Every child gets an ornament for Christmas every year so they accumulate a tree’s worth by the time they grow up, and Jennifer and I each … Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, Woodworking
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Making a Star Wars ‘Han Solo’ Blaster
The tiggeriffic son wants to be Han Solo for Halloween, so I decided to make him a “blaster”. It’s scrap plywood, hardboard and dowelling that I had in the shop, with some washers glued to the outside. I had no … Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, How To, Woodworking
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MP3 Player Speaker Cabinet
We have all of our music stored on a NASLite server in the basement, so any computer in the house can play any MP3 we own. The only problem with this is that you need a computer to access it. … Continue reading
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How to Make a Crosscut Sled
The bed of my table saw isn’t that large, so if I have to crosscut anything more than about 10 inches wide the miter gauge is pushed off the front of the table, making it very awkward to cut properly. … Continue reading
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The Basement Workshop
Ever see a magazine cover story with a title like Dealing with a Small Bathroom? Then you open the magazine and flip to the article and see that their idea of a “small bathroom” is a bathroom that only has … Continue reading
Posted in How To, Woodworking
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Playmobil Castle Blocks
For Christmas, we made each other gifts, and my eldest son had the idea to build my youngest son a set of building blocks to make a castle for Playmobil-scale people. The boys love playing with their Playmobil knights and … Continue reading
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Wooden Snowflake Ornaments
A friend of ours gave us a snowflake Christmas ornament many years ago, and I’ve always wanted to make one myself. I decided to try this year, using some leftover oak I had in the shop. I had a very … Continue reading
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Getting Sorted Out
Okay, so the new shed is in. Next it’s time to do some organizing. The big shed looked like this inside (actually, this is AFTER I had removed at least a third of the stuff and then remembered to take … Continue reading
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