I made a custom tap handle for a great friend. It started with some unique pieces of walnut that were cast into TotalBoat Thickset epoxy, v-carved his name into it with a small CNC, and finally enjoyed some tasty brews with it!
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New skill! I needed to make a replacement cabinet door and thought it'd be super straight forward with the right tools.. but there were a few hiccoughs. I learned that making a frame and panel door is pretty simple.. IF you get all the sequencing correct!
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A brisket board is a large (think Texas big.. where they love brisket) cutting with a juice groove AND little reservoir cup in the juice groove to catch all those delicious drippings for whatever tasty idea you have for them. In this video I make them two ways. One with a more typical shop approach that fits most power tools or wood working machines, then another using a Shaper Origin.. which is a pretty addictive little gizmo I gotta say.
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Contrasting wood inlays are a great way to customize woodworking projects, and v-carving is a way to do that with great detail and crisp corners! This is my first time doing this and I show you what I learned along the way.
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I've been wanting to try my hand at some carving so I created a project need to be able to do that. My kids have been saving their gift money in jars for our next trip to Disney World and I thought it'd be fun to give them a cooler place to store them.
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The face or vase optical illusion we're all familiar with got me thinking, why couldn't it be a real face? Then I realized it could be a great gift idea, and a perfect DIY gift for Mother's Day! Fortunately, that holiday is nearby so this was the perfect opportunity to make my Mother's Day gift idea of a child's silhouette vase. We had to do it a bit early so I could share this idea with you in time to make one, but I'll tell you - my wife loved it!
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I made some epoxy charcuterie boards with lichtenberg figures with some help from a friend. Epoxy boards are already super cool, but the lichtenberg figures really take them to a new level! Many thanks to Adam from MoDiggs for helping with this project, and TotalBoat for sponsoring.
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Here's how I made 100 beer flight boxes for Cartridge Brewing! These are solid walnut and feature rabbet joinery reinforced with once fired 9mm casings, branded leather badges that are brass tacked on, and a chalkboard to label the libations that Catridge Brewing will serve in the boxes! I mean, how could I make beer flight boxes for a brew pub called Catridge Brewing that's going in an old ammunition factory and NOT use brass casings in it somewhere? If you're in the Cincinnati area or just love great beer, be sure to follow instagram.com/cartridgebrewing or https://cartridgebrewing.com to visit them as soon as they open in 2020!
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Wooden spoons are a quick and great gift to make and give! I mean, who doesn't use wooden spoons? Only people who don't have them, so a perfect gift for them would be to carve a spoon! If you have any tools, you can probably find a way to make a spoon. In this video I make a handful of spoons using a hodgepodge of tools, feel free to mix and match based on what you have to see what you can come up with!
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Wine is a classic holiday gift and this is a pretty easy way to class it up with a hand made touch! The beauty of working with leather is it doesn't require many tools to get started and if you can follow lines and handle a needle, that's about all the skill needed to get started!
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I wanted a dog treat to keep treats handy for working my new pup, going on walks, or when we're out at the dog park.. so I made these two leather pouches! One has an open slot so there's no fasteners or pulls to mess with to get treats out. The other leather pouch is more typical with two snap fasteners and a fold over flap. Don't need a treat bag? No problem! Just size the pieces for whatever you want to put in a pouch and make one that fits perfectly.
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This Epoxy Beach Wall Art with LED Sunset was a lot of fun to make! The sunset colors came out great with just painting tinted epoxy onto a piece of acrylic, but individually programmable LEDs could be used instead. Also, I made the maple panel, but you can buy ready to use panels at most big box stores!
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This is about how to make live edge boards into epoxy resin cutting boards! But really, any boards will do. I'm using some air dried walnut and total boat epoxy with black diamond pigments to make these live edge epoxy cutting boards.
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Here's how I made a gift box to hold letters for a friend! My router table and box joint jig made this super fast.
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In this video I show how I restored a Stanley Bailey No 7 Jointer Plane from the 1920s back to working order! My goal was not a "like new" restoration, just getting this old thing back into shape to make beautiful things in the shop.
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In this video I show how to make a coin box to hold slabbed coins! Beware, slabs come in many different size, so much sure you know what size slabs you want to put in the box before you start.
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Check out how I used some scrap to make a nice hanging essential oils rack to store our oils!
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Watch how I take some off cuts and a knife kit and make a matching cheese board and cheese knife set for a friend!
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Check out how I batch out some pizza peels using some offcuts and scraps!
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Check out how I made these clipboards that I batched out for a craft show. It is really easy to scale this up or down to make more or less clipboards, of many different styles! You could make them even more simple, or as fancy as you desire.
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