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 …
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 …