Now that Marilyn has retired, she wants to spend more time in the garden and she has been studying composting. The order was put in to the manufacturing department (me) for a cedar compost bin with 3 compartments that she saw in a magazine. I used SketchUp to draw the bin and made it using…
I have a very nice neighbor Tom who is stuck inside this winter because his left eye quit working. His doctor says it will return to normal but there is nothing that can be done other than let time take it’s course. I asked if he wanted to do a small project in my wood…
Ever wonder what to do with nice logs that you come by when someone cuts down a tree or you find in the woods? How about hollowing it out and making a nice home for our feathered friends? Here’s how this project proceeded from start to finish. …
I found the plans for this project on Minwax’s website. This looked like a neat little project that would beautify our yard so off to Kettle Moraine Hardwoods I went. White oak was selected for the bench parts and the entire thing was assembled with dowel joints. I really like dowel joints because, if they…
I hate to waste material left over from a project so I try to come up with an idea to use it. When I can’t think of anything, it becomes the old standby, a flower pot! I recently had drop offs from some landscaping timbers that fit into this category. Using a chop saw, the…
Wood flower pots are very nice in appearance and each year they take on a new personality depending on their contents. I wanted an 8 sided Western Red Cedar pot about a foot tall with a 12 degree taper. Consulting compound miter tables readily available on the Internet, I determined that the correct settings…
