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 …
“Topographic” Pallet Wood Wall Map
MMMMMMM maps. If I could marry one, I would. This is my interpretation of a topographic map. It’s built up from strips of reclaimed pallet wood glued up into sticks 5 layers thick. Each of these sticks is 1″ wide and follows the topographic profile of the state of Vermont at each 1″ section. I have to be honest with …
Laminated Pallet Wood Guitar
A pallet wood guitar isn’t super revolutionary, but this one is special because it’s mine. The body is made from a lamination of some amazing looking pallet wood including cherry, oak, maple, mahogany, pine, alder, poplar, and probably a few other species. The blank for the body was something that I made in my shop and then brought it to …
Making Pallet Wood Clog Work Boots (with a wheel in the heel!)
Available for a limited time only, I present to you the Carolina Clogs. The safest, most efficient, most stylish, and most eco-friendly work boots on the market today. You’ll be the envy of everyone on the jobsite with these on your feet! I made these by recycling pallet wood into a giant block of wood including a bent lamination on …
Giant Epoxy Resin Handle Screwdriver
Everyone seems to remember the classic Craftsman screwdriver, it’s an icon filled with nostalgia. This is something my father had in his toolbox and so did his father, so I wanted to make a nod towards that in my own way. I recreated the screwdriver perfectly scaled up 4x just in case I come across any massive paint cans that …
Power Carved Pallet Wood Picture Frame
A picture frame made from pallet wood… surprised? You shouldn’t be. Picture frames are the perfect woodworking project, it’s the kind of project that can get someone into woodworking with a simple 4 sided frame, and from there the possibilities are infinite. I wanted to push this idea to the limit and figured the best way was to create an …
Life-Size Nutcracker
I just had to kick off the new year with a bang… or with a crack really. The latest #jackmansized creation is this nutcracker that is actually taller than me. He’s built almost entirely out of wood and almost entirely out of reclaimed materials. The body, arms, and legs are all different segmented turnings built up from some reclaimed oak …
Wavy Rim Bowl
A segmented bowl made entirely from scrap wood, plus an epoxy resin and scrap wood feature ring. This incorporates 2 different design aspects that I’ve been wanting to play with including epoxy resin used as segments and an organic flowing shape within a bowl. I still want to play around with the epoxy resin segments a little more in a …
Pallet Wood (diamond pattern) Coasters
“Too much work for coasters”, “Hell with that”, “I believe an apology is in order!”, “What a crazy guy”, “Surely that’s not economically viable”. These are just a few of the handpicked comments that this project has generated so far. That said, I appreciate the compliments and also the reinforcement that I’ve set the bar exactly as intended, now let’s …
Power Carved Giant “Boot Print”
Before being separated, the panel that this piece came from was laminated from 57 boards of white/red oak that were reclaimed from horse fencing from a farm in Pennsylvania. The concept for the final piece is that, through power carving with the use of Arbortech Tools, the panel will look like windswept sand with a giant Carolina boot print in …
Pallet Wood Penny Boards
100% reclaimed pallet wood Penny Boards! Another thing that the world has never asked for, it’s kind of my specialty. These custom Penny Board style skateboard decks are made entirely from laminated reclaimed pallet wood. Each board is unique just by the virtue of the materials being used! Every board is a random mirrored lamination of different species of hardwood, …