Category: Carpentry

There are some pieces of lumber that are just to interesting to get painted or stained. This piece of cedar is one of those that stood out to me. This is something new that I am starting to do. Letting the wood decide where it wants to be displayed. The best point of view is […]

  This pergola was made for a wedding. The wedding was to take place at a yacht club on the water. A beautiful location. Now I don’t know about you but from what I understand woman start planning these things out when they are young. She knew exactly what she wanted and what it was supposed too look like. […]

My beautiful wife in all of her glory is a photographer at heart. She loves taking pictures of anything she can point her camera at but most of all children. With that in mind for an upcoming photo shoot, that she had booked, she informed me that she was considering buying a prop bed. “What is that,” […]

This little box has a couple of features that I wanted to showcase. First is the fact that when you rip a piece of maple and turn it sideways you can see a lot of the little ray flakes. They catch the light and move around, I liked that. The second was a piece of […]

  The idea for this project came from one of my wife’s hobbies. She collects life-like dolls and not only that she loves to make them. We simply needed a better place for her to store them because she has quite a few. About the same time I was kicking the idea around for this […]

I became fascinated by the ability of a lot of the 18th century crafters and their attention to detail in carving, especially in relief. So I figured why not try to see if I can do this, once again off to the Wall Woodworks shop again. My first try when I was cutting the blank […]

This project started out as a small box that was going to have a flip top and boy did it change into something completely different. I didn’t realize how many necklaces my wife had, besides the fact that most of the times when you put a bunch of necklaces in a pile the tend to […]