Hi All,
A simple quarantine project out of a single pine stud I had lying around with a few walnut scraps for good measure. Used the last of my scrap plywood making the table saw jigs to help make this a project a reality. Enjoy!
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Floating storage boxes, the brief was to create two boxes from reclaimed wood to sit in a mill conversion apartment in Manchester and compliment the original features. (please see link for images).
The planks were stripped with a flap disk and finished with various grits on an orbital sander and three coats of Osmo oil.
The leather straps which act as hinges are original shaft drive belts from a cotton mill they were “fed” with a treatment made of lanolin and beeswax and secured with contact adhesive and copper rivets.
The boxes are on hidden castors that give the impression that they are floating and glide in and out of the structure.
They are designed to fit under the wardrobe unit in the last picture ( please see Dropbox) which I built last summer.
N.B. New users are only allowed to upload one image so for fairness to the entry please see Dropbox link for images of the whole project, thank you.
https://www.dropbox.com/l/scl/AAAu1hkZK73yZsrqnaq-rDfpzIvTqdiVdKM
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My wife loves figurines, this was my attempt at a wooden version. The wood is ash for dress and body and beech for the hat. Coloured using hampshire sheen intrinsic colours and finished with high gloss. This will be a birthday present for her later in April, hopes she likes it.!
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Hello I’m Maya. Here is my latest piece! This coat hanger is made from oak, metal square tubes, old rivets and some engine valves, wich have a perfect shape to support clothes!
All the wood cracks are fakes! 
Oak was in too good condition for the “industrial” look I wanted to give so I sculpted it! 
I set it on the wall with a french cleat system, and I love the fact that there is a little space between the coat hanger and the wall!
I don’t know if metal working is also accepted…
Good luck to you all!
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Tried some pens this month the mistakes have actually turned out better than I thought. Trial and error with these rosewood accent and a go at turning leather was a 1st
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So with all the crazy I have had a little extra time to make some shelves for the kitchen from leftover birch ply finished with osmo raw. Was quite pleased with the end result considering my lack of tools this was done with a circular saw, jig saw,chisels and hand sanding .
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I’ve never entered a woodworking competition or posted photos of my projects - social media shy! I’m so impressed by the other entries - motivation and inspiration for the lockdown we are all experiencing.
I used to collect pens several decades ago and decided I wanted to show them off rather than have them hidden in a drawer. Although I’m a ‘hybrid’ woodworker I prefer hand tools and traditional joinery when practical. At one point I thought that I’d bitten off more than I could chew - it took me 2 weeks to hand cut the 44 dovetails in this display case (cabinet and drawers). The case is solid beech with a sapale inlay in the lid - chosen because it presents a close colour match to the end grain of he beech when oiled. Unfortunately, I had to re-make the lid twice - firstly because I I had not measured the diameter of the largest pen properly and then, again, because I didn’t measure twice and cut once! The lid is very heavy - made heavier by thick safety glass and - in hindsight - I should have reinforced the mitres with splines.
I hope you like it.
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beautiful colours. What woods are used?
Thank you!
Walnut for the rim and legs, and for the hexagons I used walnut, yew and oak.
My first attempt at a large piece of furniture. I’ve finally got round to making the bed I’d planned for my wife and I. All cut and jointed by hand so really happy with the outcome. Its just given my loads of ideas for future pieces.
King size bed in English oak
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Having fun over 4 days in March, making a table top and shelf out of old oak fence posts - 40x 100mm squares on the top and 85x 40mm for the shelf all of which is mounted to an up-cycled frame found in a skip.
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Posting on behalf of Robert Baker:
'I have made a set of four benches. Suitable for in or outside use. They are made primarily of sweet chestnut. The natural sawn wavy edge bases are from a tree cut a quarter mile down the lane and seasoned here. All the legs are of ash grown here in my coppice. The legs are wrought from my homegrown timber, ash and chestnut. Mortise and tenon joints are wedged with end grain wedges of boxwood. The natural beauty of the grain is wonderful to behold but not so visible in these photos. Hand tools are used to prepare from the log, mostly the draw knife and spoke shave. Seats worked with electric planer and belt sander.
All turned tops and knobs are oak, as are the woven slats on one of the seat backs.
Inspiration came from the Windsor chair making course last September which I attended. (Alan Styles too).
#MakeItInMarch20
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This is my partners pyrography work done on oak, she is disabled and started doing pyrography 3 months ago these are our 2 staffies who we recently sadly lost I was so surprised at her hidden talent I wanted to share her work
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Hi, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colotis a couple of years ago.
I decided to start a woodworking project to help me get through it. So I thought I’d knock up a wooden brio style mountain railway. It’s taking a bit longer than expected! It’s made from recycled wood where ever I can (old beds etc). It’s made to be completely toy safe (certifiable) and it’s totally screw free apart from temporary screw to pin or bolts to hold each level together. Tell you what, I could really do with some of that kit to help me finish it! It’s a Christmas pressie for my 2 little ones. Hope you like the photos.
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Some fantastic examples of work posted here. My submission is a bench/shoe rack I have made at a weekly evening wood work class I signed up for as an escape from sitting in front of a computer all week.
I made this with off-cuts from a 40mm kitchen oak work top. The legs are made from strips of the worktop that were cut into 40x40mm lengths. The rails were strips of slightly thinner 40x30mm lengths. All hand made mortise and tenon joints used throughout and top was screwed down from the underside.
The aluminium rails were from a length of aluminium wardrobe rail I purchased from a local DIY store and cut to length.
Just finished this week at home with some Danish Oil ready for some kids muddy shoes to be stored.
Planning some similarly styled side tables for the living room for my next project with the remaining off-cuts.
Cheers
Not as finely crafted as some of the incredible examples here already, but this is more of an enabling project at the start of my own workshop journey. This is my woodstore / trolley bench I made the first week of lockdown to provide storage, but more importantly some additional worksurface. One day it’ll house a bandsaw and sander. But for the time being, some saved timbers for projects. Built using Axminster castors for easy manouvering. Looking forward to having the time and tools to perfect techniques and accuracy.
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This is a mini-workbench - which will sit on my main workbench and raises work up by about 9 inches (225mm). Reduces backache and is great for dovetails. This was made from bits of scrap and wood reclaimed from old furniture. No power tools were used in the making of this bench (apart from a cordless drill). It has wedged tenons at the top of the legs and a draw bore offset dowel at the bottom to really pull the joint together.
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