We had an opportunity to work with PLAAD on the beautiful Dellwood home project, fabricating this exterior front entry door. They describe the door with, “The entrance to the home is denoted by a covered entry roof cantilevering out over twenty feet, reinforcing...
“What do you want? You, you want the moon?! Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. I’ll give you the moon, Mary. Well then, you could swallow it, and it’d all dissolve, see? And the moon beams’d shoot out of...
We all know Han shot first but this was my second shot at carving him. This time he’s been encased in a slab of book matched walnut and stands 18″ tall. “Perfect Hibernation” was an award winner at the 2015 Northern Woods woodworking...
SPACE10 (Ikea’s innovation lab) has designed an intriguing garden structure called The Growroom. The plans are available now and have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. In short that means that anyone can build one as long as they...
This fun project was a collaboration with my friends at Crew Scenic for a Google Tech Hub install at Coco in downtown Minneapolis. The slats are scraps salvaged from a local cabinet shop. The stretchers are held in place with wedged tenons....
I’ve been branching out a bit from my CNC router use in woodworking and into some heavy metal. Besides Floor and Pallbearer, I’m also talking about aluminum and brass. I’ve made a few brass branding irons. I used standard woodworking v-bits with good...
I was recently asked to build a tiki head statue for a local restaurant. The lure of rum soaked drinks made the job hard to turn down. I figured my recently acquired CNC router made the task possible for me since I have no formal sculpture training. As with most...
Marble, stainless, porcelain, and even pottery, we’ve all seen sinks made with basic materials but few of us have seen wooden sinks. Mike from America’s Woodshop in Bloomington created a turned wooden sink for the DIY Network’s “I Hate My...
Some recycled and gifted walnut is reluctantly cooperating with me as I attempt to conjure up some chunky medicine cabinets. Some of it was in the cutoff bin at a local workshop. The wild grain and knots may have been better suited for an art piece than straight lines...
Ingredients: messy tool drawer camera CNC router wood or foam to fit the drawer Software to taste Process: Organize your tool drawer Take picture of it trace your tools in illustrator or any other vector based software import your drawing into cam software carve...
The list of potential uses for cnc machinery in the home and small business shop is limited only by creativity. Furniture and carved signs are obvious choices. How about custom stamps? Why not? My friend Ben has designed a few business cards for me. We got the idea...
Inspired by Christopher Schwarz and my friend Jeff, I have started a dovetail-a-day project. Each day I will hand cut a dovetail joint. I’ll post the pictures here, warts, splits, gaps, and all. This project offers me the chance to improve some of my handwork...
2nd Annual Pinewood Derby 2009 , a set on Flickr. This was the first pinewood derby at the new house. Brad of the hill people was the winner. It is so much fun to let people loose in the shop for some free form creativity.
