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Thanks, but I wouldn't call myself an expert at it. I've done around half a dozen at various sizes, and they can be tricky.

Lately I have been enjoying making small boxes from reclaimed wood. The first pic is of a Honduran Mahogany box I made from a vintage cigar box. I disassembled it carefully, sanded all surfaces to remove the graphics, reassembled it inside out, and I added a hidden wood hinge system with magnet...

Sunny but very windy and chilly much of the morning.

Great weather this morning.

I haven't done a pen in a while, so today I took a piece of well seasoned White Oak and made myself a rollerball for my desk.

My mint UK-made Record Plough Plane arrived today, complete with the original instructions and a full set of very sharp cutting irons in both metric and imperial sizes. I took it right out of the box, assembled it, and tested it on some well seasoned White Oak. Once I got the depth of cut...

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Some of you may recall that I discovered a large spalted Silver Maple cut up and dumped in a ravine on our church property back in NOV 2021. I was able to cut and retrieve several decent size chunks, which I took home and milled into smaller chunks and slabs, to dry for future projects. Pieces...

I took a cracked and punky piece of driftwood, stabilized it with black epoxy, and carved another one of my slightly offbeat bowls.

Taking advantage of the only morning this week with good weather expected.

Sometimes I just don't want to go out to the garage and drag out the power tools. The Black Cherry bottom for my newest project needed cut to size, so I carefully laid out the cut lines, then cut slightly outside the lines with a Ryoba saw. A few minutes with the plane and an engineers square...

A relaxing and satisfying evening using a shooting board to square some spalted Maple pieces for a new project. A well honed plane is a joy to use.

Yep, I considered going out for another ride this morning, but I wasn't enthused about doing another ride with the temp in the 20s.

I appreciate the kind words, fellas. I appreciate any kind of woodworking. The box above is one of only a handful I've made in my time. Rob Cosman has really turned box making into an art form, and I want to try a few of his ideas.

A Rockler box joint jig for my router table.

I took the slabs from the above image and made a mail tray for our table, with a bottom from some scrap Mahogany I had laying around the shop.

Much nicer weather for this morning's ride.

Resawing a White Ash fireplace log into slabs for a new project.

26F when I began my ride this morning.

It's pretty small, close in size and weight to my Fuji X30. It would not feel right with a large lens like the 12-40/2.8 or 35-100/2.8. My shooting style if I'm using a rear screen is to have my right hand through the camera strap with my ring finger and pinkie under the camera, and the camera...

I wonder what Yoshihisa Maitani would think of modern cameras like the E-P7. I would think they would fit within his ethos. His original Pen F film lens from the 1960s looks like it was made for the E-P7. Glad I kept the adapter when I sold the E-M1 Mk III last year. Charging the battery now...

He never stops smiling . . .

Still hanging around.

That would have been one heck of a spindle gouge. :D

A couple of years ago a medium size White Oak on the hillside directly below our house fell. I cut a few pieces for bowl blanks, and thought about cutting the rest for firewood, but it was pretty large at the base, and I discovered even small pieces of the dense, wet wood were very heavy. I cut...

Spalted Apple.

I took the week off from home improvements to work on some personal projects on the lathe. Yesterday was the small bird's mouth bowl. Earlier was the handle for a hobby knife. Today was a handle for a screwdriver from Desert Ironwood, my first time using this dense, heavy wood.

I spent much of the day making a small live edge bird's mouth bowl from a piece of Black Walnut I cut from a storm-damaged tree last summer.

I took a scrap of Black Walnut and turned it into the handle for a shop knife, using a commercial hardware kit. The cap swaps ends to cover the very sharp blade when not in use.