Woodworking

I took up woodworking as a way to relax from the business world. Woodworking is generally thought of as the craft of forming functional or artistic objects from wood. Carpentry is generally thought of as constructing structural objects from wood. I am a fair carpenter and a novice woodworker.

There are several types of woodworking that I have begun to explore.

Lathe work and small pieces

Lathe work is fun, but a little messy. But the results can be quite pretty.

Segmented bowls - making round objects by placing wood on a lathe and cutting a shape into it while it is spinning. Here is my first bowl. The sides of this bowl were made from 16 segments of 4 different types of wood. The bottom was made from several more.

Hardwood pens - Mont Blanc like roller ball pens in assorted wood types.

This burl one was especially pretty.

Jewelry boxes like this Walnut box with hand cut dovetails.

This set of Ambrosia Maple salad bowls.

Other projects

I built this Red Oak display cabinet for pottery.

I tried some Intarsia, this is kind of like a jigsaw puzzle, where pieces are cut from different woods. This one is Basswood (white), Cedar (medium) and Walnut (dark).

I even tried some framing. No, I did not do the stained glass, I just framed it. One frame is Pine and the other is Cherry.

Cabinetry

Constructing cabinets from high quality wood like you would find in a kitchen. For example: everyone has a cabinet in their kitchen that is in the corner. You know the one that you have to crawl into, well not me.

Crawl in cabinet. Maybe not.

Why does that shelf have handles?

Because it is not a shelf, it is a cart.

And there is another right behind it.