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, …
Reclaimed Wood Wall Map
Ohh maps, I could literally sit around all day and explore google maps and not even miss dinner. I have many flaws and this might be one… Anyway, ever since moving to DC I’ve been wanting to do some sort of a project incorporating the streets of the city. The layout of the streets and even the shape of the …
Carving a Giant Utility Knife (entirely out of wood)
Inspired by the giant utility knife blade created by Jimmy Diresta (https://youtu.be/qWZwaJ3sg30), and the Stanley knife that it was modeled after, I created this giant knife perfectly to scale and entirely out of wood because stupid challenges are often the most rewarding. Put that on a t-shirt, or don’t (probably don’t). As soon as I saw Jimmy create the blade …
“The Giving Tree” Power Carved Log Bench
It’s not often that I get to do a limited tools projects (this one is about as good as that gets). It’s also even less often that I just start a project with no plan from the beginning. I figured why not just hit both at the same time while I was out hanging out with Jimmy Diresta for the …
“Live Edge” Pallet Wood and Maple Burl Cookie Wall Art
This piece is a table top or bench top idea that has been kicking around in my head for years and it evolved into what you saw me build in this video. I decided to go larger scale for a wall hanging piece for the Carolina Shoe offices. There are 2 materials joining together in the center at the Carolina …
Ultimate Router Table & Storage Cabinet (table saw extension wing)
This is a super versatile router lift and storage cabinet built around the Rockler ProLift router lift that lives in the extension wing of my table saw accompanied with some t-track. Here’s some of the intricacies of my design: The wider t-track was notched out to allow for the t-bolts from the fence to slide into the blue t-track. I …