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 Unique hand carved and sandblasted cupboards by Eugenie Woodcraft.This cabinet features rose carved doors, an elaborate rose carved top molding and sandblasted butterflies in the glass. There is a bottom shelf to store small items or cups. This cupboard is made of pine and stained Special Walnut.This is a little cupboard that features [...]

I mentioned in my recent Mere Minutes that I was working on a stomp box for this weeks video. I ran into a few complications and had to delay it until next Friday. Instead I decided to make a step stool using some more of that beetle-kill pine. I am really happy with the way this turned out, considering I didnt start to even design it until [...]

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Is there a theme here?Mere MinutesA few links to stuff I mention this week:Meze Headphones Weekend with WOODWoodworkers fighting can [...]

Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales in 1949 and lives and works in London. Deacon is a ground breaking contemporary sculptor who is well known for his dynamic, organic, anatomical, abstract sculptures scaling from small to massive. He uses manufacturing and building techniques rather than traditional sculpturing methods. Therefore, he is able [...]

Arne Jacobsen was a Danish architect and designer in the tradition of the “Danish Modern” style. Jacobsen got his degree in 1927 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Many of his furniture designs have become classics. He is also credited for designing flatware some of which, his right and left spoons, were used in Stanley Kubricks [...]

Nick Schade The Hatori Hanzo of Kyak makers!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB-eCprJ8eU I stumbled upon Nick Schades work while researching what other artists and craftsmen are were making out Cedar (Cedar is the primary material of Ursula Von Rydingsvard). Nick Schade a former Navy engineer, made his first Kayak in 1986 out of the belief that he could [...]

First, I wanted to share a couple of cool piggy banks that have shown up in my email. This one is from Dave Rooney whose granddaughter is a princess. So cute!Jeff Newhook made this bank which isnt a piggy at all, but rather an owl for his 4-year-old niece. He also made a video of the process. Check it out!*****I also want to share this tray that Sergio [...]

I wanted to give you some more ideas for making a bed table. Here is Daniel Pozzobons table that led me to build mine. Hes added some blocks on the top to give his laptop more ventilation. I was thinking that perhaps you could simply include a few holes in the top surface, too.*****Heres a bed table Larry Clinton built for his sons father-in-law to [...]

I was going to document the full build of this little project but my camera battery died after just a few beginning shots and by the time it had charged up I had completed most of the build. Needless to say its very similar in concept to my Traditional Saw Bench if you are interested.The spare off-cut from my large Coffee Table top and the last [...]

Hi everybody!  Its the middle of the week, Ive got tons of work to do working on our new shop and bread boards so this will be short and sweet.  I hope everyone is having a great week so far.We dont have a fireplace, though I sure wish we did, so I use this ledge that I built for our mantel.  I always try to keep it simple when decorating [...]

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Hello!  Lots of changes going on in our house and so that meant finding a new place for our office.  We didnt want it in the bedroom anymore because were trying to keep that room a relaxing place so the next best option was our rarely used living room.  So, I carved out a little corner and heres what I came up with.Excuse all the cords.  [...]