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Both stands are on locking casters, so they can move around my shop.

For my birthday, my wife bought me a really nice Dewalt scroll saw. This thing is so nice. As a first project to test it out and make sure I know how to use it, I made the following guitar hook/hanger out of pine and cedar. Works great and is a bit more attractive than the one’s you can buy.

In the summer of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, my stepson and his girlfriend came to stay with us for a couple of weeks. While with us, I taught him how to use the lathe and hand tools to make the following tobacco pipe. I had some Algerian briar waiting just for this project. As you can see below, the burl is beautiful. The stem is not acrylic, as I didn’t have any, so we made it out of a black plywood pen blank that I also had on hand.

On the whole, it turned out to be a remarkable piece that smokes smooth and clean.

Here’s a coffee table I designed and taught our daughter and her fiance how to make as an engagement gift. She found some different designs online, so I took those pics and designed this one based on them.

I had a lot of fun helping them to build this, and I think they had fun building it with me. They discovered that wood working is 99% sanding HAHAHAHA!

It’s made out of some flat sawn white oak with some steel legs we found on Etsy. The results below speak for themselves.

Once my wood shop got to a point where I could effectively build most anything, I posted that fact on my Facebook. Then my niece saw that and requested this stool for her kids.  She sent me a link to a stool designed by The Wood Whisperer that others that some of her friends had already. Once again, I was more than happy to have a project.

I chose to build it out of red oak that was readily available in our local hardware box store. I also made it so that it could break down flat.

By all accounts, it has happily worked out very well for them!