- Best way to avoid blow out?
- ohhhh this grain!
- Little board game piece with little sword
- Sometimes the finest wood in a tree lies in its roots
- Love making a mess
- Started an evening class at a local college a couple of weeks ago and tonight I cut my first dovetails.
- Wood turning. Taking orders :)
- This is what no lathe, time to kill, and a desire to drink looks like
- Housewarming gift for my friend. Walnut, sapele, and curly Maple
- Maple Dish with walnut oil and Maple Sphere without a finish. Turned on 07/31/2016.
- Boxes For Sale
- My first attempt at coasters.
- Perfecting my coaster game! Walnut, cherry and purpleheart with a nice beeswax and mineral oil finish.
- Hand carved short salad servers
- No officer, that’s a ... uh ... birdhouse
- Quilted rock maple and American walnut pen box
- First mallet complete
- Bentwood cuff bracelet, me, Hawaiian Koa, 2020
- 2nd attempt at segmenting. And for all the negative reviews ive heard about the wen 8 x 12 lathe i really have nothing but good things to say about it! Though this one did really test the limits of its capabilities!
- Not my first, but definitely not my best. Wanted to see how rusty I was, actually split the pin board 🤦🏼♂️
- Whipped up some live edge rolling trays for the mates today
- Jack plane restoration
- My first ever project! Hiccups and details in the comments
- Obligatory dovetail post: Its not pretty, but its a start
- Cleaned up this guy a bit. 1931-32 Stanley #4.
- My first turning project. An imperfect bowl. Safe to say Im hooked.
- Rocking footstool, walnut and white oak.
- I made a hammer
- My first attempt to join wood - Result: Not happy
- So Im awake at 3 am admiring the stuff I see on here so I HAD to try a mallet. Or two. Still tweaking
- Hand carved spoon from black walnut
- First joiners mallet made from scrap beech, ash, padauk, and wenge. First inlay work too! Finished with tung.
- Been experimenting with chambered chillums
- Oak Trivet with Walnut Sliding Dovetail [Beginner]
- Tea Bag Box made from figured cherry. The long inside edges of the lid are convex so to open the box you push down on a short side of lid. It lifts the opposite side for you to lift off the lid.
- Im in my woodshop class, and I think i might have just found something better than a shampoo bottle.
- Two-tiered charcuterie board with cheese knife, spoon, spoon rest, and jam/mustard bowls. Maple, mineral oil, and natural edges.
- Finished my mallet! It came out so well and I used it right away. It’s also great at scaring students in the hallway. Teak oil for the finish.
- Decided to retire the bowling pin from mallet duty!
- Maple burl succulent planter
- Cherry and Ash jewelry dish for an engagement present
- Mallet made from two branches: Apple wood and maybe ashe
- I made my first pipe out of cherry wood, it’s not perfect but I’m proud of it.
- I got a sweet mid-century modern beechwood ice bucket by Georges Briard for $5 at GW, tongs and all!
- First attempt at a bandsaw box. No real shape or style in mind; more of a proof of concept for me. Cut from a slab of an old scrap of handrail i never threw out. Mistakes were made and seams are not good, but I definitely learned a thing or two. The next one will be prettier!
- Figured wood is a thing of beauty. So much depth.
- Vast improvement on my mallet making skills. Today vs 2016.
- First year woodworking student from the Netherlands. First time making dovetails out of walnut and maple with a linseed oil finish
- My buddy gave me a hard time for making pretty cutting boards for my wife/mom so I threw this together last minute for him.
- (Ear)ring box... genuine diamonds, baby!
- Bentwood ring, Me, Cocobolo, 2019
- A mallet a made from scraps...to help me make more things...
- Excited to take this baby for a spin. My first hand plane!
- Hand carved white oak spoon, BLO finish. I use it as my coffee scoop
- Havent done woodworking since I was a kid. My first woodworking mallet from hardwood in a neighbours dumpster. Only hand tools
- Phone stand. Oak, mahogany, and a bit of maple
- Finished my joiners mallet - curly maple sides, quartersawn cherry center with a walnut handle. A hand-cut wedge tenon joint to attach the handle. Danish oil finish. More pics/video in comments
- A guy online offered me $50 to make him a wooden ashtray. I said that didn’t sound safe but he insisted. I finished it and he promised to pay, but he never did and then ghosted me. So here it is in case anyone else appreciates it.
- Carved a spatula out of some kind of myrtle
- I’m a noob but here’s a bird thing I just finished! - Cherry & Coat hanger :)
- Old growth cedar from Vancouver Island (almost a century per inch!)
- Today I made handles to match the beveled edges on my cutting board. This was a daunting task. Build album in the comments.
- I made one of those brick pattern cutting boards for a friend.
- First real project on the mini wood lathe. Mini mallet, boxwood head, red cedar handle. I could get used to this!
- Bubinga and Sycamore End Grain Chopping Board
- Finished putting my Hock block plane kit together... any ideas on the best way to shape it?
- Puzzle cube I made
- Was commissioned to make some wooden bottle openers for wedding party gifts
- Help: Making a new handle with a lightning bolt patern for an antique screwdriver restoration.
- My best friend has been playing in Connect4 tournaments since we were kids. Surprised him with this for his wedding gift.
- Jigs; They dont need to be fancy, they just have to work.
- I made a dowel making jig - far easier than I thought it would be
- A box I made for my wife. Layered Purple heart wood and Maple with a copper heart inlay on the lid, finished with Danish oil. This was a fun one to make. I started with a solid cube of layerd wood, rounded it on the bandsaw, cut off the lid, then mainly hollowed it out using a drill press.
- Xbox One gaming headphone stand.
- With spring time fishing ramping up Ive been having fun keeping up with demand on these fillet knives and of course the combos!
- Finally made my self a wood mallet. side note, branding on a curved surface is hard
- A hardwood pipe. Tried something different with this one. Very unique. I made this
- Anarchy Mallet
- If you remember the pencils I made a month ago, yesterday I made one out of maple burl. I think its the best one yet.
- Wooden pipe I made months ago and its been used everyday since then
- I made this joiners mallet out of maple and walnut
- Made a new bath tray today. Went kind of freestyle on the handles, but I think it works.
- Hi which inlay dovetail joint do u like the look of best A or B. A is definitely harder cos of all that thin end grain to chop through. 🤙
- Laser engraved geometric coaster set I just finished up. I love the nostalgic Spirograph designs along with those more in line with sacred geometry.
- As a novice woodworker, an hour of tinkering can make a difference (I still have a lot to learn though)
- When your joints begin looking like something out of Space Invaders...
- Can anyone identify this wood? Super hard wood. Dunnage off Japanese ships carrying railroad tracks. I can’t tell from the grain as I’m just starting out making stuff. Pen holder. 4th or 5th project.
- Student apprentice saw a pic of a turned snowman and whipped this up during lunch. I helped her with the arms and nose. Not sure if she’ll be an apprentice very long with these skills.
- [bloodwood, purple heart, and wenge] working on my first Mallet!
- Well I guess Im a real woodworker now guys!
- Clocks inspiration
- First time using a scroll saw. Really hard to sand in those super tight spaces... so gonna have to work on a steadier hand while sawing. Overall pretty happy with it though.
- Built my daughter a toy woodworking bench with tools!
- Here’s a mallet I made a few years ago, walnut handle with scrap bubinga and oak for the beating end
- My first dovetail
- I made a chisel from an old file
- Tools for pushing corners out in sewing projects. I think its Acacia. The grain is just gorgeous!
- My first segmented thing. Made with walnut and maple.
- The impossible dovetail box, attempt #2
- Walnut coffee spoon
- Making a chopsticks jig, but decided to use some purple heart. Always satisfying to create tight spirals with the hand plane!
- Made some coasters for my dad for Christmas out of some old Army tent stakes. Sapele (I think) and poplar.
- Made a wooden mallet. Made from Cumaru, oak, and walnut. Wedged tenon. The cumaru is super heavy and dense like ipe.
- Here’s the bottom of an apple wood bowl I turned. We cut the tree down in my front yard.
- Quick 4 hour project I did two weeks ago: Thors hammer, Mjolnir, for my 3 year old son
- Getting the hang of it
- Carved a Comfort Bird - Natural Walnut - Just sanded and buffed with no finish (didn’t know wood with no finish could be that shiny) - Surprisingly pleasant to hold! I suggest making one.
- Little bandsaw box v2. I learned a bit from the mistakes on v1 and applied them to the updated version. Now Ive learned a new set of things to try not to mess up and am looking forwards to v3 which I will probably not make from scraps but actual nice wood.
- So this just happened...
- I have made a way too fancy pushblock.
- Made my first tool handle. Turned to a rough oval on the lathe and then shaped by hand until it felt right.
- Made a mallet for my tool kit.
- Made a chillum out of some Honduran Rosewood
- My latest work in progress. (Swipe for more process pics).
- Made myself a marking gauge from scrap wood and 0.5$ ruler 😀
- Had some scrap laying around, decided to try out the new inlay I got
- From briar block to smoking pipe.
- Resin joined
- Best finish for a mallet? (Hickory and Maple)
- First hammer and lathe project
- A new Wizards Rook smoking pipe with fire stem in the making.
- This is a test piece to see if I could do a segmented project without a lathe. I’m looking forward to experimenting some more!
- I used a sandblaster for the texturing on this Pierced Horn design. Now on to the coloring and finishing.
- Oak and cherry coasters in an oak base. Fun for the whole family (unless you have more than 4 people in your family)
- Carved my first god dam spoon
- Started working on a matching tool set this past week. All in all there will be the level, mallet, smoothing plane and marking knife.
- Mini floating shelves I made for my girlfriend...
- Actual first project
- Knife handle Im working on
- Finished my new mallet today! Maple/Oak
- I made a thing from firewood. 1st attempt at a woodworking mallet. ImgurGallery(https://imgur.com/gallery/pXVZn)
- Little family of snowmen I just finished
- Got tired of looking at my old Big Box store plastic handled sliding bevel gauge. Took it apart, polished up the hardware, and made myself a walnut handle. (now I want to find a brass carriage bolt and knurled nut for it)
- Made a new handle for my slick out of hickory
- Complete custom box joinery: the Lily
- Twisted dodecagon bowl I made
- Saved some Japanese maple from the burn pile
- Happiness is a freshly honed block plane.
- Work in progress wood burning project
- One day build (only hand tools) small cherry dovetail box
- Rolling pins- walnut, cherry, poplar, oak, birch plywood
- I had a go at making some mallets. Theyre made mostly from scrap pallet wood.
- Walnut end-grain cigar ashtray. My first commission.
- I made this, thanks for the inspiration
- Ripple box. Walnut.
- Just Splayin’ Around.
- Grain Continuity 😍
- First time making a pipe. Hand carved. It smokes decent. Poison oak. (Im told)
- About to dig in with my first butterflies on some Claro Walnut.
- Custom knife block
- The middle of a table top I’m working on
- I made a peel for my brother in law, and a I had a small scrap left over. I present to you, the Baby Peel!
- Took a class and made this walnut and brass cutting gauge
- Chisel box out of scrap
- here are my pipes #3 and #4! I am slowly getting better at this i think.
- BBQ scrapers - Oak and Walnut (Comments in... comments)
- merry snowman
- Is this a decent fix for a split mallet handle?
- GIANT 3ft long poplar and read oak knitting needles I made for my moms Christmas gift.
- some good stuff that’s on its way to its new home
- My first woodworking project, a reclaimed artisan oak cube salvaged from a dying tree shelter.
- My first attempt at making a spatula. Modeled after the Nimbus 2000. Anyone have any recommendations on using mineral oil over linseed or vice versa?
- Trying out my new Lie-Nielsen chisels
- Put together a simple weighted plywood mallet for smacking things
- I’ve always used pencils. I’m hooked on marking knives now. It’s “rustic” but it works great
- Little tea light holder. First try at an inlay.
- Started cooking up some dovetails in cherry for thanksgiving yesterday.
- My first wood project ever. Really wanted to see what I could do. Basic oak from Home Dept with some Danish oil. Lots to improve on but very happy!
- I finished a rebate plane today!
- Made this dice holder today. Made from poplar with a “liquid” effect on the top face.
- I made. Cube in a cube after watching some old Steve Ramsey videos.
- Finally made myself a joiner’s mallet! Sapele and white oak. Mostly with hand tools, finished with BLO. 🛠🤙🏻❤️
- Made a marking knife from the blade from an old post hole digger
- Scrap walnut bike tire replacement levers
- Small pile of eastern red cedar cubes and sticks to go into the dresser drawers.
- Mallet I turned out of ironwood and ash.
- My most recent wood pipe with a little drop-in insert for when I need to make the chamber smaller when I’m smoking alone
- Dad got these from relatives. Wood is slanted at one end and gets thinner towards the hole, the other piece just has a kinda bowl.
- Whats wrong, scared of a little lightning? Bloodwood & Maple Attitude Rearranger
- Made an stealthy oak teether for a friends baby boy.
- No such thing as scrap wood! Sugar bowl and matching spoon from glued-up leftovers. So happy with this.
- Making the Minecraft bee out of wood
- Spreading knife & block
- Custom maple and walnut pinewood derby car. Matching stand included.
- My Jigsaw piece breadboards
- Made a small mallet since the other one is too big for chiseling.
- My son kept sneaking my nice mallet (curly maple and Walnut) outside to smash stuff, so I decided it was time for his own. Smash away Tiny Thor!
- Decided to build another hammer to replace my first one (the one in the back). Im not sure if Im ever gonna actually use it after seeing it finished.
- My Attempt At The Making A Wood Pipe Trend
- First (decent) dovetails, and first ones on a finished project
- Wild Tambran shot glasses. Also, I’m accepting liquor donations/sponsorships
- Win some. Lose most.
- A wooden keepsake box I made
- Little scrap wood marking gauge
- Maple “cleaver” cutting board with purpleheart blade edge, walnut scales and brass inlay.
- Stepped up my mallet game a little today. Very satisfied with the result!
- Fiddleback Cuban mahogany bowl I just turned.
- First spoon.
- Doing some bodybuilding today. 5 big figs (huge wooden minifigs) worth of parts
- How to give this a twist?
- Cedar and walnut Salt Box.
- Can anyone suggest a way to flatten this mallet face off?
- First routed bowl complete! Not perfect but I learned some things.
- I havent done much woodworking since my father passed, as I didnt want to complete a project without being able to show him. This year I decided to get back in his old shop to make some small decorative air plant holders to give out for Christmas with some wood he left. Hope hes smiling.
- Wooden mallet for me and my dad. Hickory and apitong.
- Port Royal Golf Club in Bermuda sent us a chunk of Bermuda Cedar from their course. We turned it into putters.
- Small wooden pizza peel ornament
- Made these spinning top toys for me boys. Walnut and maple with oak dowels.
- Wenge and ash wedged marking gauge. Trying to get into hand tooled woodworking. Since I need one I thought it would make a good first project.
- Y-splitters ! What did you make and full explanation and cable mod inside
- Carvers mallet I just finished. I thought I would make the wedge a little fancy this time. Walnut handle, branch I found for the head
- This is the best this thing will ever look.
- Playing with some Wenge. Not even half way there and it already looks really cool.
- A tigerwood/mahogany mallet I made
- Art Deco wooden ashtray with match holder and striker. Match holder also fits a small BIC perfectly.
- I made my son a new hammer out of wood
- Made my dad a mallet for Fathers day
- A little something for the garden bounty.
- A box I machined in my Manufacturing class, thought y’all might like it
- How you know you need to saw off more a the splitting end of a board
- Received two carving knives for my birthday. I used one to carve the other a case from leftover pine I had from the strop I made.
- No such thing as scrap wood! Teak offcuts from a tabletop into cheese boards and knives with jam/honey bowls.
- Does anyone know how I can keep the red from this padauk from bleeding into the maple? Refinished 3 times to no avail.
- Seen a bit of wenge posted, so I thought I would share this wenge turkey call I turned months ago, and finally sold!
- Walnut lettuce cutter
- Simple salt shaker I made
- I’m getting more into using hand tools. Made my first mallet for my chiseling! Maple and hickory coated in boiled linseed oil.
- Pen bodies turned and ready for assembly. Can you guess the woods?
- Whipped up this mini mallet last night. Walnut head and pine dowel handle, finished with Danish oil. About 7.5 inches long, 3.5 inches wide
- My brother always liked my woodworking mallets, so I made him one inspired by Thor’s hammer. Merry Christmas!
- First time turning something unsupervised. Went with ambrosia maple to do a handle for my brass chisel whacker head. Finished with the maloof style finish so that it still looks and feels like real wood.
- I finally upgraded from my Home Depot rubber mallet
- My latest live edge dugout. Black walnut (those grains tho 🤤) with a brass Pokémon inlay
- Bubinga and Pine Mallets for the Boys
- when the wood implies it prefers 2 lines to 3
- What started as a plank of scrap wood became the newest handmade kitchen utensil
- My first projects/pipes. All hand tools except for the holes. First is on the left, second on the right. Learned a lot, made plenty of mistakes! Trying to find the best/safest way to finish them.
- Scrap wood mallet with Walnut and maple. Attempt #2. Not perfect but it works.
- Ukelele stand I just finished for a client. Spalted Pin Oak, Silky Oak, and Walnut. Very happy with the bookmatch.
- Teaching myself how to use a lathe! Left will be a peace pipe style with an inline carb, middle will be a stem for another pipe, and the right is a little tamper I made for myself.
- Before and after of the bowl I made! Using maple wood
- Butter knife I carved from a found piece of maple
- My first attempt at coasters. They are made of wood.
- Wood mallets made from scrap maple and walnut and Ash. Linseed oil finish. Gifts for budding woodworkers I know.
- Walnut Tote and knob I made for a flea market hand plane.
Squares have four corners Cubes have four corners more Are they not still equal - @themichaelbird on Instagram
- Oak Mallet, handle made with chisel
- Today’s 2hr challenge. Got it glued up, didn’t get a finish on it in the time limit. Osage Orange and Walnut. Mortise and tenon /w glue. No wedges tho.
- Almost a year into my appretanceship and my boss gave me the challenge of making an impossible mallet
- Ergonomic White Oak and Walnut muddle inspired by someone’s post last week. Good for smashing!
- My first mallet!
- Made some mallets
- It’s a build that’s been done to death, but I’m proud of my puzzle anyway. The three colors of wood really make it pop.
- My First Mallet - Maple and Walnut with a Cherry Handle
- Made a baguette board so I can quit using a piece of cardboard to load them into the oven.
- First attempt at a mallet or any real joinery. Handle could be bigger but made from salvaged red oak barn wood and scrap mahogany. Advice for next time?
- My progress so on a rose shaped smoking pipe
- I finally was able to turn a wooden goblet with a contained ring.
- Thursday afternoon well spent
- So I made my first mallet yesterday, definitely not perfect but I love the process and think it looks sick.
- A few baby rattle prototypes. Unfortunately the coloured veneer is not food safe, but may be ok with a safe finish.
- Matching Replacement Handles for Rolling Pin. Walnut finished with gunstock oil.
- My first mallet. Already learned a few things making it that I’d do differently next time; any pointers or feedback?
- First attempt at a butter knife, juniper blade with cherry handle.
- I’m not sure if im allowed to advertise these but i make hardwood pipes and sell them so if anyone is interested hmu, also id just like to share some recent creations
- Made my dad a shiv for Father’s Day! And also a butter dish. Used a Woodworkers Guild of America design, but used the scroll saw instead of bandsaw. Tried to do the angles on a disc sander, and learned that’s hard to do, so then did the angles on the scroll saw too. Birds eye maple and walnut.
- Built a big maple wacker
- Mallet 2.0
- Visited my Grandma a while back and she had a squirrel oven rack pull figured it be a good practice for my new scroll saw think I did pretty good for a first attempt.
- Are we doing wooden knives?! Just finished this one from Cherry. Build progress in comments.
- Todays bit of progress: Experimental Chess Pieces
- Joiners mallet made from scrap white oak
- Spalted maple rolling pin
- big ash mallet.
- I built a new handle for a 3lb hammer
- small mallet for leatherworking
- By no means the best looking mallet on this sub, but it should hopefully give me a long time of good use
- I made this cook shroom pipe
- A small pipe I made
- My first lathe piece!
- A wooden cup for wine I made from spalted maple
- I made this new mallet this week from Patagonian rosewood.
- Love making hand tools :)
- Incense burner I made
- First pipe is coming along! All hand tools except for drilling the holes!
- Half-way of making my friend a bow saw with hand tools only, I found out I need a mallet to cut mortises.
- A mallet I made for dad for Christmas, featuring a dog that wouldn’t leave me alone.
- Matching set of maple mallets. The round carvers mallet has a brazilian ebony handle and the other is walnut. Brass accent piece between the head and handle
- I made Persimmon coasters with a Cherry holder
- My wife asked me to make her a muddler - as you can tell I glued together a bunch of random scrap wood I had to turn it.
- Its not perfect but I made it and its mine; first mallet
- Train whistle pipe
- I started making wooden flasks. This is made if bloodwood and white oak for the spout.
- My first attempt at a mallet. Oak with maple wedges
- Maple honey dipper pipe I made
- I made a joiners mallet from a piece of scrap thrown away for having some sapwood still attached
- The third attempt of my detail mallet
- My big Mallet now has a smaller brother. (Step by step album in comments)
- Curly maple, red oak, and wenge mallet. Used it to practice new techniques like inlay.
- My 1st wood mallet and new favorite thing to make. Oak and Marble wood.
