I’ve been doing some book repair lately. Gluing up paperbacks that came apart, “tipping in” loose pages, and repairing or replacing hardcover spines. It’s usually an enjoyable thing…
I needed a way to keep paper things that I’m working on, reading, cutting, at an angle and out of the way of the overhead light that causes…
For those who don’t know what a “subkick” is, it’s basically a speaker used as a microphone to capture low-frequency information from a kick drum. Or any source,…
I needed one, I made one. Used the trunk of a small tree that blew down last year; I think it’s some sort of cherry. The “arms” are…
The kid and I took a walk in the woods with a chainsaw, on the lookout for a trunk to slice. We cut this one off of a…
I’m not sure why it took me so long to make one of these. I suppose it’s because I sort of enjoy guitars all over the place. I…
This is the kid writing here. My and my papa made a toothbrush holder out of dry branches from our woods. First we used the shaving horse to…
My kid has been into sewing lately; mostly dresses and accessories for her dolls. She uses old clothes, or whatever scraps she can get from mama. It’s lovely…
The kid wanted a bird feeder, so we made one. From some pine and birch bark from the woods. We used Gorilla glue for its waterproof properties, and…
I saw a video once with Barn the Spoon talking about his axe block, a raised platform for taking an axe, or hatchet, to wood. I wanted to…
I made a shaving horse. Or a shave horse. Something to hold wood while I go at it with a drawknife. I never used one before, and wasn’t…
I needed a volume pedal for a record that I’m working on, but don’t own one. I don’t normally use one, so didn’t want to spend the money…
I made a workbench for my workbench. For working on small stuff, and to get things a bit closer to me, as I seem to desire pretty often….
We try to compost all of our kitchen waste. The problem with that is that it can get quite stanky. We had a metal pail for a while,…
My wife needed a place indoors to start the vegetable and fruit seeds for the garden. So I made this thing. I wanted to use 2×2’s for everything,…
I needed a box to house all the hand plane parts I’ve been amassing. I also recently got some huge piles of old screws, and as I was…
There was a compost area already here when we moved into our house, but it was made poorly from mismatched pallets, and was falling apart and ugly. I…
We were out the door to go to the beach, the kid wanted to collect some rocks and shells. The dog was coming along, and as we were…
I built this some months ago, just didn’t get around to posting it. Made 100% from scraps lying around in the garage. I didn’t have a plan, was…
Handles broke off your cheap pot? Make new ones! We’ve had this pot for almost 15 years. It’s in fine shape, but the plastic handles have long since…
Cheap pine from Home Depot, some oak strips, Minwax Red Oak stain, and some homemade linseed & beeswax polish and you too can neatly store your hats, gloves,…
When I moved to this house, there was already a work-area in the basement. But the storage above the bench was terrible. Not well-made, very rickety, too deep,…
The kid likes to come down to the basement while I’m working on stuff. So I made an area for her to do her own work. A desk…
I made this lovely cross-cut sled, with box joint jig attachment, working from Darbin Orvar‘s idea. I changed it a bit: made it larger to fit my saw…
In an effort to curb half-finished puzzles on every horizontal surface in the house, I made this puzzle board. The kid can start a puzzle, then finish it…
For my kid’s school’s fundraising auction this year, I made this floor-desk. The design is based on the previous one I made, with minor alterations, mostly adjusting the…
A Jecklin Disc is a device for stereo recording that helps increase separation between the mics. Some companies make versions of the original, but they’re crazy expensive. So…
We don’t own a television, so in order to watch our favorite British shows, we use our laptop, usually in bed. But it gets so hot. And the…
I bought a really crappy pressboard computer desk for $8 at a local thrift store with the idea that I’d replace the pressboard with pallet wood and keep…
The kid needed a new stool for reaching the bathroom sink and medicine cabinet. I made this using all pallet scraps, pieces that I might have normally thrown…
The garage was getting a bit crazy with pallet part piles, so I decided to make this storage bin. Out of pallets, of course.
This was the first thing that I made using a pallet, kind of an experiment. I think I used parts of two pallets, actually. Cut the top strips…
The kid needed a surface to work that she could carry around where needed. I made this desk using a piece of stained plywood that I found in…
We needed a small table for our front porch. For beverages and such. I made this using mostly one pallet. Ripped the 2×4’s for the legs, used a…