The wavy vase is constructed from reclaimed walnut beams, hardwood pallet wood slats, and a plentiful amount of wood glue. It’s 28″ tall, 16″ in diameter at the widest part, and weighs more than an average sized cat. It took up ~200 hours or so of my life and I think it was worth it. It’s supposed to be hard …
Steady Rest (collapsible & modular)
More details coming soon.
Trebuchet (A Jackman Documentary)
This trebuchet was built entirely just for an event that me and my buddy Zack participated in early this year. At the event we premiered a “documentary” following us building, testing, and refining this trebuchet entitled “Your Doing it Wrong”. Although slathered in facetiousness and irreverence, I feel like it still held some value where we discussed how money shouldn’t …
Pallet Wood Butcherblock Countertop that Pivots! (bar top ➔ dining table)
Countertop built up from sections of reclaimed cherry and custom made pallet wood butcher block. Pallet wood butcher block is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, and it proved to be equally as painfully difficult as I expected. Through some custom fabricated hardware and some wheels, I was able to get the countertop to pivot and …
Carved Barn Doors & Diamond Drawer Front (for Kitchen Island)
The barn doors are custom fabricated from angle iron and pallet slats. The angle iron was repurposed from some large shelving units that were getting tossed and the pallet slats were repurposed from, well, pallets. Each of the pallet slats is scabbed onto with an extra matching pallet wood piece to create the wave profile by freehand power carving each …
Kitchen Island Cabinet from Reclaimed Wood
I used to have a dining table, I still do, but I used to too. Anyway, there are a lot of moving pieces on this kitchen island, most notable is the transforming countertop. What?! Yeah, you heard me right! The upper waterfall countertop rotates allowing it to be either a regular bar top where you can sit next to your …
Giant Maker Knife
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you I could build with a material other than pallet wood! Well I can… European pallet wood. So what’s with the change of scenery? I visited my friend Giaco earlier in the year to spend some time in his shop in Italy and built stuff. He’s the man behind the Maker Knife, a …
Roof Rack Customization
If you don’t follow along on my Instagram feed (@ jackman_works) … #alwaysbeplugging I very reluctantly had to replace my Honda Element recently and the new car is great but it lacks in character that the Element… exuded. This project was inspired by the material I created when making diamond pattern pallet wood coasters about a year ago (so go …
Pallet Wood Pencils
Pencils, so many pencils… Do people even use pencils anymore? I don’t think so, but that’s never stopped me! Now the question is, how do I make the stupidly repetitive process of handcrafting 1,000 pencils interesting? I still don’t know the answer to that and the video is already live, but I’m up for the task! In total I made …
DIY Adirondack Chair (with pull-out footrest)
Are these the most comfortable wooden chair that you’ll ever sit in? Of coarse they are, although I may be a little biased. It’s my Adirondack Chair build, but done entirely with just 6 handheld power tools (not table saw, bandsaw, etc.)! This time I also added in a brand new pull out footrest that collapses inside the chair so …
Skateboard Decks made from Pallet Wood
Now this is a project I’ve been wanting to take on for a long time, bent laminated 100% pallet wood street style skateboard decks… quite the mouthful. I kind of needed to find an opportunity to set aside the time for this build since these 10 boards took me about a month total to complete (partially because the project was …
Giant Wood Hand Plane
Oh boy, this is a big one! 3x scale No.5 hand plane built up piece by piece to be nearly identical to the original. It’s about 3-1/2 feet long and 30lbs with a blade that is 6 inches wide and nearly 2 feet long made by Zack Herberholz. The plane was made almost entirely from wood including all of the …