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.
The bottom was cross drilled with a 1-1/8″ Forstner bit and a perch was glued in place below it. The bottom has a small hole drilled in it to drain water. It will be fun seeing our new tenants in the early spring!
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…
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…
The Banksia tree grows in Australia and produces unique looking nuts. The nuts are harvested and sold as exotic blanks for wood turning. I have seen these in various woodworking stores so I thought that I would give it a try. I was surprised when I cut into the nut so I took a few…
I had a nice piece of Walnut that was dry enough to try my hand at turning a natural edge bowl. Not just a natural edge bowl, but one that wasn’t round, instead elongated which meant that I would be turning “air” as the cut was interrupted 4 times per revolution until I was deep…
