Moss, mushrooms, and all things woodland are very popular motifs for design and entertaining. The colors and texture of the forest are enchanting, and by bringing these elements indoors, you...
Posted by Brookelynn Morris
Categories: Home, Craft, Woodworking | 1 Comment
Need to know what time it is, but don’t own a phone, computer, microwave, or any of the other 100 clocks you probably already have? How about a huge mahogany...
Posted by Wes
Categories: Arduino, Woodworking | 2 Comments
We are working on a midcentury kitchen renovation and we wanted round windows, but custom ones are expensive. So my father and I made these from scratch!
Posted by Annie Bradley McCall
Categories: Woodworking | No Comments
If you have a router and the means to cut a straight line with it, this trick for building a 5-sided acrylic box is considerably easier than the common slab-joint...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Woodworking, Furniture | No Comments
I had a dying madrone (Arbutus menziesii) in my backyard. Looking at its structure, I noticed a nice 3-pronged junction of branches a few feet above my head. I thought...
Posted by Joe Szuecs
Categories: Craft, Furniture, Woodworking | No Comments
I first came across this puzzle a few years ago at my uncle’s estate sale; apparently it was his father’s. I’m not sure if he made it himself or just...
Posted by Billy
Categories: Woodworking | No Comments
By Kathreen Ricketson, Rob Shugg, and Orlando Shugg As a boy, my partner Rob Shugg always had a bow and arrow. He was quite a little ragamuffin and had a...
Posted by Kathreen Ricketson
Categories: Craft, Fun & Games, Woodworking | No Comments
Nearly as long as humankind has roamed the earth, people have been wearing shoes. Ancient Egyptians, Indians, and East Asians began sporting wooden sandals thousands of years ago. Thankfully, inexpensive...
Posted by Annie Mohaupt
Categories: Craft, Electronics, Woodworking | No Comments
The video below shows all the things you need to know to make a low-tech outboard motor in a couple of hours once you have obtained the materials. This project...
Posted by Bertoa
Categories: Home, Woodworking | No Comments
As a retirement present for Joe Malkevitch, a geometer friend who likes puzzles, I designed and built this 1′-diameter Egg Heads puzzle from ¼" walnut. Many of my sculpture and...
Posted by George Hart
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How to custom make your own multi-purpose wooden bench with recycled or scrap pieces of lumber, to any size of your liking. Can be made for several purposes such as...
Posted by Billy
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Computers add binary numbers constantly, but we never see how. This elegant machine does the math using glass marbles. I started building marble track machines years ago using Lego. I...
Posted by Matthias Wandel
Categories: Electronics, Woodworking | No Comments
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