Creative
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Scrapwood Frame
Another scrapwood project! Cherry, Red Oak, Sapele scraps were used for this frame. This was an enjoyable project so I suspect I’ll make some more.
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Barnwood Headboard
I ordered a few boxes of planed, precut barnwood for this project. My client wanted lights on the headboard and really like the idea of making them touch controlled. Labeling the boards once the layout looked right was a good idea. Then they were glued and nailed to the backer board. This headboard was hung
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Ink on Wood Art – Jerry’s Hand
I appreciate the Grateful Dead but can’t call myself a dead head. My friend John can. So when I saw a picture of Jerry Garcia’s unique hand – he’s missing a finger – I thought it might make a great pie of art. The process involves attaching a photocopy of the image to a piece
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From a Door to a Headboard
I picked this door up a salvage place a while ago with the idea to make it a headboard. One of the panels was broken. Fortunately cutting the broken panel off made the door the perfect size for a queen-sized bed. Note the cracked panel below and the LOVE sign on the finished, mounted headboard:
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First Barn Door
Very often in older Florida homes, the laundry is in the garage, and this was the case in my home. This barn door was my first, constructed with 1×4 pine boards and 1/4″ plywood. I bought the steel bar but standoffs were made of dowels and the rolling mechanism was put together with odd nuts
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Cartman, Stan and Kyle
I used a 10″ audio tape reel to trace perfectly round circles onto the pallet wood for the South Park characters. Working from images on my phone, I then drew them by hand onto the boards. They looked too bright once the painting was complete so I sanded their faces back until I thought they
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…Happiness For Others
I used a projector to trace some text recently and decided to try using it for another. I’ve been reading about buddhism and came across this phrase… I connected the pallet wood together, gave them a light sand and a white base coat before setting up in my living room with the projector, pencil and