WOODWORKERS???

If I'm not fishing or at work, you can probably find me in my shop. I love creating projects, and am currently working on our new kitchen cabinets. I own a full shop of tools. I buy all my lumber rough, then do all the kilning myself. I then mill it all to my needs. (against the wifes wishes) I've made a whole room of my basement into a kiln for wood. lol... sounds funny typing it now.Here a few pictures for you guys starting with one of the kitchen doors. My wife does the designing, and I do the construction.

Handcrafted with solid cherry rail and stiles, and ash burl laminations over mdf for the core.


Here is a pedestal for a friends table. Solid cherry.


Here is a end table for my father for last year's father's day gift. It was made using walnut and cherry.

very very nice work

them peices would go for a pretty penny around here

Very nice! Woodworking is one of my 2 or 3 hobbies, but is currently on hold due to a house move a couple years ago and no time to setup shop in my new basement.

Very nice work. Very creative and appealing. I would love to do something like that one day, but unfortunately Im "creatively challenged", if that makes sense. Im sad to say that I was better in Home Ec than shop, but Im progressing, slowly but surely.

Great work! 8)

Nice looking pieces. I do a little dabbling in woodworking also. I have a friend that has a shop and I have a key so I can use anything anytime A real sweet deal for me

Thanks guys, I think my neighboor, whom has become one of my closest friends uses my shop more than I do lately. Once the cabinets in the kitchen are done, its on to making my wifes moveable kitchen island w/hadmade butcherblock top.

True wood working is a lost art. My father, with the exception of a relciner and a couch, never bought a stitch of furniture as long as I could remember. I don't know how many things he built growing up, but they are in every corner of our family. Learned alot from him.

back on topic, thats some nice work. =D>

My dad is a madman woodturner!

Fluting, spirals, finials, bun feet, huge columns..................

Ha, your dad looks younger than you

But that's a crazy good looking piece of equipment there 8)

:shock: Man... That is one huge lathe. Tell him I need a tutor in the lathe department. All I can do is make a square round, and bun feet. But would love to learn the art of finials. I do all my fluting on the shaper and routing table. What brand is that thing a Grizzly? a General? Either way... makes my dayton :roll: look tinny...lol

Hello! Ever been to any woodworking schools?
Southern Indiana

Nope....... just woodshop all through middle and high school.... My father-IN-Law was a true craftsman shared a lot of knowledge with me. Man, I miss him.

A great place to learn fine woodworking is to join a local woodworking guild if your town has one. The one here in Atlanta is full of retired guys that are true craftsmen and most are very willing to share their knowledge with you.

Yeah.... I inquired about one about an hour away once. I would love to learn....let me rephrase get guidance to hand cut dovetails, I've done plenty of research on this and tried it a few times.... I think its all in the layout.

My dad does a lot of fine woodworking. Before I came along, that accounted for most of what he did in the shop. Don't think I've got any pictures of some of his work, but I'll see what I can dig out. Even though I don't really view wood as a practical material for most projects (metal is soooo much better), I've learned enough from him to consider myself somewhat proficient in a woodshop, and the understanding the attention to detail required for fine woodworking does aid in metal fabrication.

bassboy1 said:

Even though I don't really view wood as a practical material for most projects (metal is soooo much better)

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That would make for some ugly furniture :lol: :lol:

I love woodworking, haven't done much in a while though. At my old house our basement was a complete woodshop, unfortunately it all sits in storage now. Hopefully I will get it all set up again some day. My highschool had a great woodshop program I took three years of it and made some pretty nice stuff, I'll try to post some pics if I get over to my dads house. I would really like to get back into it soon, I miss it a lot. Luckily I still catch Norm on the Yankee workshop every now and then #-o

perchin said:

bassboy1 said:

Even though I don't really view wood as a practical material for most projects (metal is soooo much better)

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That would make for some ugly furniture :lol: :lol:

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You say ugly, I say functional, and practical. :lol:

Na, I hear ya. They both have their place. Metal is better for boats, however. :wink:

BB1,
Although....... Aluminum would make for a good foundation for some outdoor furniture...hmmmm you've now got me thinking.. :wink: