When I was a kid, I saw spinning some contraption above his head that sounded like an aeroplane taking off. The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. It consists of a piece of wood attached to a string, which when swung in a large circle produces a roaring vibrato sound. Wikipedia These are incredibly simple to build and an excellent beginner project. At…
I built this puzzle from a disassembled photo of it. That meant that I had to solve the puzzle after building it in…
Cribbage is one of those “old people” games that I never gave much thought about playing… That is until I actually played it,…
While I was making this Rustic Candle Holder Centrepiece I stumbled across this Birch log. This project was super quick and simple. I…
I made a candle holder centerpiece out of an applewood log, I thought it would be a fun project for American Thanksgiving. While…
For Mother’s day, I wanted to make my wife a little planter box for in the kitchen. Something to hold a couple of…
A few years ago before all of the Minecraft pixel builds took off and before I really started posting to my YouTube channel I had made my daughter wooden Pixel Pickaxe and posted it on Reddit, It was by far the most popular thing I Have posted on Reddit to date, and so I decided to rebuild it, but this time as a two-part series I will also be making a Pixel Sword that you can see here on YouTube.
Follow along as I build a Minecraft Pixel Sword out of wood!
In the fall I had wanted to do some turning but didn’t want to do anything too big so I tried my hand ay making some Wooden Tops. I watched an awesome video from Worth Effort that really helped me get this down, as you can tell by the thumbnail, I made a few 🙂
Years ago I came across an old house that was being renovated and spotted a piece of 2×4 sticking out of the trash so I grabbed it. Since the growth rings were very tight and thought that I would build a nice box for some of my mechanical pencils with it.
After thinking about it for a while, I realized that the best way to make the board was to simply create a walnut and maple cutting board. Buy gluing up strips of maple and walnut I was able to cut strips off of that and reassemble them into the classic chessboard pattern.

