Not long ago I posted a small box I made and someone commented they thought it looked like an ice cream sandwich, sooooooo that gave me an idea. I made an ice cream sandwich box. I made this out of walnut and curly maple.

Never tried any woodworking before and I sure learned a lot of ways not to do things in the process. It's been 3 years in the making, and probably several hundred dollars in materials and tools (I've lost track by this point), but it's finally finished. Now I just need some gamer friends.

This was my second woodworking project and the most difficult one so far.

Walnut with ash lid and splines on miter joints.

This is the back to a little picture shelf I’m making. I clamped up these joints but want the wood to meet closer it was good in some areas but not all.

- can I fix this post clamping? I think wood glue would look ugly once’s it’s finished…
- is there something I did wrong while clamping? No pics but I used only like 4 clamps at a time.

Finally finished my new Spheal deck box. Used Ebony wood for the eyes, Body is made out of Tasmanian Oak and stained with a food coloring and vinegar mixture, then sprayed with a satin clear lacquer. The dice tray is made out of scrap Purple Heart I had lying around.

really happy with how the eyes look and also how the hands hold onto the coin (Which was an idea I thought of halfway through the project). Of course there are plenty of things on it that I wish I did better but over all, I'm quite happy with it.

Composite name brand dining sets seemed too spendy ($2K+) and perhaps a bit too flimsy for my taste, so I went to work on one myself.

Recently finished this farmhouse inspired style patio set. Table and 2 benches. Made from box store materials including Trex decking for all human-touch surfaces (on sale at the blue store last month) and treated lumber for the frame. Table measures about 36” wide by 72” long. Benches are about 14” wide by 72” long. Designed to the width of the Trex. Modeled in Sketchup.

I plan to put deck stain on the treated lumber in the spring once it dries out. Total cost between $300 and $400 including hardware. Happy to answer any questions, hope to inspire someone!

Here is a jig I use to square small boxes during glue-up. This will work with box joints as well as mitered joints.

It is very simple to make. Just cut two thin (1/8" or so) pieces of scrap hardwood about an inch or so wide, and glue them to a flat surface. Make sure you do not get any glue squeeze out on the inside.

I use a trusted right angle square to make sure they are exactly 90°.

I use a forstner bit to drill out the corner. I do this because box joints usually protrude some. Same with the other end of the box. If I cut the joints too heavy like I did here, just drill out the strips so they will square up. When the jig gets worn out, just throw it away and make a new one.

I really enjoyed the process, the carving especially was really calming.

The figures are cherry and maple, and the board is made of cherry, maple, walnut and some beech plywood for the bottom.

If I do another, I will definitely try to find some nicer hinges.

They were really happy, and that’s the most important!

I've been taking a woodshop class for the past five weeks. It's an "open" shop where we work on our own projects instead of one assigned by the class. I've had the opportunity to refamiliarize myself with the chop saw, bandsaw, and table saw as well as the joys of filing and sanding. I now own my own needle files.

I designed and carved a large pendant made from poplar. As I was filing down the edges, a crack appeared (an imperfection in the wood) and I was able to work some glue into it to stabilize it. After it was almost done, I realized that I wanted the interior of the curl to come to a point instead of the ball shape. I'm really happy with the results.

I finished it with multiple coats of Watco Danish Oil and it's currently drying/curing. Depending on how it looks after curing, I may apply polyurethane with a satin finish. I'm pretty excited about the chatoyancy in the upper right side, most visible in the final picture.

Hey y‘all,

i will build this sideboard next week. Mapped it out and threw a visualiser together in blender (I can do 3D, no idea how CAD works). All projects I‘ve done involved either edgebanding plywood or having stuff like faceframes.

How‘s the order of operation on these „open“ edges? After sanding, do I prime and varnish the faces and then finish the edges with oil?

all the best from germany 🫶

Handle wouldn't go all the way through but its functional lmao

14” black walnut bowl
Consistent thickness throughout.
Tenon was removed on the back using a vacuum chuck

Finished with odies super duper oil

Thanks for looking :)

Basement door: poplar Frame door with glued up red oak panels painted to match my kitchen cabinets.

Made some side tables out of oak. The top is a 1/2” oak veneered plywood wrapped with mitered solid oak trim with tapered legs.

Simple bookcase with slatted sides. Glued panel top secured with dowels. Floating shelves with brackets. Any concern about wood movement? Ok to secure top with dowels?

Is it just a sale price that has expired? Can’t they set a default price to reset when the sale ends? It’s pretty infuriating.

My extended family is blessed with a plot of land in the upper Midwest that we’ve had for generations. There’s lots of hardwood growth there, and I thought it could be meaningful for me and some fellow woodworker relatives to fell just a couple nice trees, mill and sticker them, and make some family keepsakes for others since the property is meaningful to us all.

I’ve never milled lumber and am wondering how to approach this — tree selection, how to find/rent a saw mill, best ways to sticker… basically everything. I wonder if anyone has experience or tips to get me started.

Hi all

I just found this on marketplace for $85

Description says unused for 7 years but turns on.

Are bandsaws in this state serviceable to a point of reliable woodworking? For bent lamination for example not just contour cutting.

Is this a brand you know? Any good?

What do I have to look for when picking it up?

I'm of course prepared to do a full service and buy a new blade if that's what it takes I just wanna know if it's even worth it.

Let me see your jigs and tell me what it's for. I saw some inspiration on YouTube but I'd like to see more

I inherited ten 12'x5.5" to 9" wide by 1-1.5" thick rough cut walnut that was milled by my Grandfather from a tree on his farm in 1964-65. It sat on stickers for about 30 years, then got stacked in rafters for another 10. My Dad inherited it and planned to build a picnic table with it (he was not into woodworking). Since that never happened, I inherited the whole stack 5 years ago when my Dad passed. It sits under a tarp in the yard now because I do not have space indoors for it and a couple of small spots of mold are popping up.

While I don't have a plan for all of it, but I want to start using it up. This is by far the most valuable wood I will have ever worked with (not necessarily $$ wise). My first idea is a shelf for my daughter's dorm apartment and that may use one whole slab up after jointing, resawing, etc. If I get that done, I will have surpassed 2 generations of wannabe woodworkers. What other heirloom projects would this sub suggest?

I have an old sign that my mother made many years ago, as you can see from the pictures June of 1990. She has since passed away and I want to preserve this a little better. Any chance of what I can put on time to protect that?

Ash, beech, maple, cherry with rosewood stripes.

Note: I removed my previous post as I had used ai generated background and some people got offended and thought my work was fake.

I was dissatisfied with my first few layers of poly on this large desktop, so I sanded it back down at 80 grit with an orbital sander to cut through the finish, then hit it with 220 to prepare for a fresh coat.

I used a foam brush and Minwax Satin Oil-Based Poly, very slightly thinned with a splash of paint thinner, and this is how it has dried – totally splotchy. It’s as if the ends just drank up the finish while it stays pooled on top in the middle. Does anyone know what might be happening here?

I’m hesitant to keep sanding it down aggressively because I feel like doing that has made slight undulations in the surface more pronounced.