Garden Tool Storage

French cleats bolted to the wall to hang garden tools.  Used 3/4 plywood for the cleats and pallet wood for the tool hangers.  Drying the garlic harvest (above photo)

Bentwood Rings

I made two bentwood rings after watching this Drunken Woodworker video. I don't have a lathe to make a wooden template so I had to think about what I could use instead.  My solution was to use sockets.  I have one of those big socket kits that has every size socket that you'd never use.  I think I've only ever used about five sockets since I got the thing.  I usually spend more time organizing them in the case then using the sockets.  I usually forget to lock the one flap that holds half the sockets in the case then when I go to close the case I dump them out everywhere.  Anyway, turns out I have sockets that fit mine and my Wife's ring sizes.

The light wood is maple (on one...I believe) and the dark wood is of an unknown species, to me anyway.  I ran out of maple as I glued the wood to the socket template one too many times. So the light wood on my Wife's ring might be Birch--I don't know yet.  I'm still learning.  I bought a mixed bag of veneer wood from Lee Valley and the wood wasn't labelled.

Proof the rings were made with love.

The rings were cut from these veneer sheets:
1)                  2) Maple?           3)

Pirate Sailboats

 Made nine sailboats for a child's pirate themed birthday party.  The sailboats were a big hit.  I've since made a tenth sailboat for a guest's sibling (to keep the peace).

3/4" pine cut on the bandsaw and shaped on the disc sander.  Mast is a 3/8 dowel 8" in length set a third, the length (8") of the boat, from the bow.  The sail has a pocket for the dowel and a pipe cleaner sewn to make the boom.  The kids had fun painting their pirate ships.