Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
Wes has been begging for his own workshop for “forever.” Since he is getting older, he doesn’t like sharing shop space with his mom as much as he used to. We finally moved the grain silo to a new location and started getting him set up. Mary helping pull apart the platform The grain silo… Continue reading Moving Wes to His Own Shop
Somehow I didn’t count right when ordering dowels for the Climbing Wall and ended up with seven extra. As I was researching how to make the Swedish Ladder portion for B I kept running across these mini triangle climbing ladders for toddlers. It looked easy enough so I made one for my twin nieces that… Continue reading Climbing Ladder for Toddlers
This is the second project I built for my nieces last month. B’s Swedish Ladder can be seen here. L’s loft shares the same wall in the opposite room and was quite the puzzle to figure out. As I was cutting dado after dado into the beams I kept hoping that I had in face… Continue reading Loft Above Bed for L
The first few logs I milled last fall I left the bark on rather then square up the log prior to cutting boards. This resulted in some wavy boards and other questionable lumber on the first log, the second went a little better. I’m glad I did this on a few logs, live edge lumber… Continue reading Draw Knives and Helping Hands
I always planned on making Mary & Cora a magnet board to go with their desks and finally got to it this month. I wasn’t sure where to start shopping for sheet metal and stopped first at a local machine shop. They had a dumpster I could look through as well as some 1/16th inch… Continue reading Magnet Boards with the Kids
My 9 year old has a favorite stuffed wolf named Wolfie. She wanted to make her a bed for Christmas and made sure I took her out to the shop to do it. Note: there are no pictures of Wolfie in his bed yet because she cannot see it before Christmas!! Kaylee and the finished… Continue reading Kaylee’s Wolf Bed
Not long after Mary came out to build her Tool box Cora wandered out to the shop and wanted to build something too. Her idea was a little different though ;0). She wanted a box with a hinged lid. I always save the hinges when I take them off things...but the kids are gaining on… Continue reading Cora’s Boks
I think it was last September or October I went to Home Depot and spent an hour trying to find the best quarter sawn 2x10’s I could in the rack thinking I would be whipping out my very own portable Moravian bench in short order...not so much, I’m still working on it. Last month sometime… Continue reading Mary’s Toolbox
Keeping up with Wesley’s projects can be a full time job :0)
My three youngest girls have been pestering me for desks for quite some time now.
Girl with a Hand Plane 