so the corners are rounded off not for ease of assembly, but for the ease of the ass


/thighs

I believe you're correct. Or he accidently chipped one corner and made the rest match. :haha:

Looks like one of grandpa's, or great grandpa's. Olde Tyme craftsmanship.

Since everybody is playing Paul Revere yelling, the snow is coming, the snow is coming, I'll slip in another one of mine. :unsure:

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I had tons of small scrap pieces of various types of wood, so I laid out what I wanted on a piece of plywood, kind of an oval with squared off ends, I think if I hadn't squared the ends it would have been six foot. Screwed it down to my work table.
Aside; that work table is recycled bowling alley, on shortened wooden file card cabinets.

I cut the pieces of wood so the were more or less pointing to the center, then glued them together and to the plywood, I didn't have a planer at the time, and cutting those little pieces to the same thickness on the tablesaw is scary. Since I'm a pussy, I figured after they were glued I'd even them up with a belt sander, but I didn't relish the amount of dust that would make in the cellar. So I took a couple of steel tubes with blocks of wood on each end, and used the router like a manual milling machine cutting the glued blocks to uniform height. Then cut the outline in the blocks and plywood with a Jig/Saber Saw and sanded smooth.

Then and only then, 'cause Mama didn't raise no fools, 'cept my brother, carefully made a paper template of the opening. Took that to the mirror store and said make me a half inch beveled mirror this shape... Oh, and this side up in case my hand cut opening was a little wonky. I'd measured and eyeballed the hell out of it, but it had to be right on the money. Covered with two part Bar Finish epoxy... I'd have preferred a flat finish but chicks like shiny. Covered the back with thin plywood and the mirror is glued to that

I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the reflection in the mirror. I was sure that's my spare bedroom by the half curtains and wood shutters, but it looks like a black rollaway toolbox and I never had one. After much photoshoping I discovered three's an amp and tom-toms. OK, that's when a friends band was using that room for rehearsals. Duh. :smack:

What you won't do for the ladies. :)

Nice piece of work.

Whs^

:facepalm:

Honey, I've finished the bedroom, call our daughter and have her bring her children to see it. :lol:

Every time I see one of these fantastic kid bedrooms, and this one is fantastic, I wonder if they realize how fast the kids grow up. Maybe that's why he built it strong enough for three adults. ;)

That is awesome. It also acts as a deterrent to adult children moving back and a honey pot for Grandchildren visiting.

Leather doors...

One guy in Hawaii...
But another Hawaiian...

More grog, wench!

I like that picnic table. Looks easy to make at first glance, but it's a bit trickier than it seems. Getting those flats of the logs even with one another to make a smooth table top when the logs are all different thicknesses. I imagine they are notched underneath, but would like to know.

Could lay the half logs face down and level a plank across them. Then run a skillsaw or router along the plank to make notches of even depth to the faces.

Or rough out notches in a stringer then set the half logs in the notches with epoxy to make them even. Have to take the bark off though.

That's how I'd do it. (Assuming the skill saw blade would reach that deep.) It's not incredibly difficult. Just not as easy as slapping the thing together using 2x10s for a table top.

Combination guitar stand and music stand. I'll refrain from further comment. ;)

It's a manufactured door, what can go wrong? :rolleyes:

The homeowners could thoughtlessly have put the hinges on the wrong side of the house.

You had ONE job, Al.

I suppose they could be midgets and wanted the stained-glass windows where they could peek out.

Oh,:litebulb: I've got it, they were shipped an Australian door by mistake.

That's pretty cool.

And it looks fairly straightforward to replicate.;)

Here's another straight forward easy to build item, but I doubt it would hold as many clothes as a stationary bike. :haha:

I don't think that word means what they think it means...

This could be tricky, but a simple 90 degree arc jig, lacking a lathe, and a router could do it.

:( The bar is closed.

Bocce is for pussies, croquet might cost you your head, ten-pin is the way to go. You don't even need kids, the pins are reset with strings.

Love the finish on this table, so classy.

This was a spur of the moment project. I'd bought a big set of Forstner bits for making big holes in wood that are the size you want and not all torn to shit. So I was experimenting with blocks of different types of wood at different angles to the grain. So much easier and cleaner than a hole saw, pretty quick I had a pile of these blocks. So I spiffed them up a little while I thought about it.
I had been in this junk shop one time and bought a hanging lamp, a small ghetto crystal chandelier, just because it was the ugliest lamp I'd ever seen, and thought it would make a great gag gift for some poor bastard. It had a bunch of these big cut glass shapes with a coating that made them sparkle and throw colored beams like third rate real crystals. I hung one in each of the blocks to create suncatchers. Not terribly pretty but worked pretty well in the window.

The one with the stripes is glued up 1" hardwood marine plywood we'd found in a barn. The sheets were 4' square, and every other ply was light or dark... I don't know why?

I wonder if there is a layer of tropical hardwood?

Could be, it's very dense, very heavy, and strong like babushka.

Yeah, it's a Nakashima, but he did it himself. :blush:

This looks like a doable chaise lounge.

It said hand carved, but I can't figure out how big this really is.

This looks like a fairly easy project. The design is flexible enough to tinkered with and the materials easily available. However I have one rather large reservation, I don't think it's sturdy enough for really vigorous sex. :headshake

What is it? A chair?

Yes, it's a matter of where she sits.

Looks like a chair ya'd sit in when getting a manicure.

Or pedicure, which leaves her open to... uh, suggestion. :blush:

The trestle style base seems to be de rigueur, for wide board tops.

This is an easy one anybody with a jackknife and a hunk of tree can do.

Observer: How did you carve that easy chair?

Carver: I just removed everything that wasn't an easy chair.

Reclaimed wood table/ I don't like it.

Make your little princess a magic chair...

The design and the wire legs are very 60s. Quite retro.

Lead paint is extra tasty.

OK, you've had time to resharpen your jack knife, so just grab an Oak stump and have at it.

Wow.

Different, kinda cool, but I wouldn't want it in my house. Not entirely sure why, it just jars my senses. Be a bitch to dust too.

He won't have to worry about moths...

If Cedar doesn't deter the moths, scare 'em away...

You could knock the puppy out in a weekend or two... :lol:

Different schools of thought on patterns in a strip built boat. I like taking the donor wooden beam and cutting it into book matched strips that will wrap the boat in what appears to be a continuous matching grain pattern. If you select wood that's fairly uniform in color, you can get what I consider to be gorgeous grain patterns.

I prefer the more uniform color to the contrasting strips of different color.

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It's a little garish for my tastes, but I highly appreciate the skill and dedication needed to pull that off. Probably won't get stolen either.

How about this beauty...

Beautiful boats. My FiL has a lovely wooden canoe but its to pretty to use so he bashes around in fiberglass.

Cute picnic table for swingers. However a couple things bothered me about this picture.
First was the wide open S hooks holding the chains, but I guess since they aren't really swinging it doesn't matter all that much.
Secondly, I'm pretty sure the backboard for the basket ball hoop is a glass window. That's a genuine WTF were they thinking?

Here's something you can do with that clapped out CJ rusting away out back.

Nooooooo must rebuild!

Awesomeness, but like Griff says...

OK, then that old clapped out CJ which was hit by a rocket propelled grenade, causing it to swerve over an IED which blew it 40 ft in the air, then came down in the path of a 100 ton tank with no brakes, rusting out back. Better? http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

Christ, what a bunch of sentimental softies, you're better off staying home playing pool.