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Carved Barn Doors & Diamond Drawer Front (for Kitchen Island)

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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 …

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Making Pallet Wood Clog Work Boots (with a wheel in the heel!)

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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 …

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Power Carved Giant “Boot Print”

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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 …

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Carving a Giant Utility Knife (entirely out of wood)

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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 …

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“The Giving Tree” Power Carved Log Bench

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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 …

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“Live Edge” Pallet Wood and Maple Burl Cookie Wall Art

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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 …

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Epoxy Inlay and Rustic Compass Butcher Block Countertops

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So this countertop is actually a set of 3 pieces that are kind of like table leaves. I made these for my friends who live in a fairly small house that lacks countertop space and this is meant to help with that. These will sit on top of a half wall that runs around the perimeter of a set of …

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Giant Baseball Chair (from 2x4s)

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Thanks to Arbortech for supporting what I do!! ► TURBO Plane – http://bit.ly/2upf82w ► Power Chisel – http://bit.ly/2I4hBBv ► Contour Sander – http://bit.ly/2pDVs5g It’s that time of the year and baseball is back this week!! The grass is finally turning green again and what better way to celebrate than by building a giant 3′ diameter baseball, Jackman style. Other than the …

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Building “A Christmas Story” Leg Lamp (the MANLY version)

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This leg is an exact full scale model of my own leg. The leg and base are made from maple butcher block scraps from previous projects. The lamp shade is welded from scrap lengths of rebar and wrapped in pleather attached using paracord that looks like Carolina’s boot laces. The boot is attached using a threaded brass lamp rod through …

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Pallet Wood Slat Bench

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This 100% reclaimed bench is a piece made for Carolina Shoe who is planning on using this for all sorts of different display purposes. They tell me this bench is going to be more well traveled then me. So this was constructed from a total of about 8 pallets (Red Oak, White Oak, Pine, Poplar, Aspen, Mahogany, Cherry, and Maple) …

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Cherry Carpenter’s Toolbox Urn

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This box is an urn for my grandfather who died this past month at the age of 82. He was a cabinet maker by trade and did the full range of carpentry and woodworking. The only safety warnings that will ever resonate with me came from him, I picture his 9 fingers every time I go to use a saw. …

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New York State Sign with Inlay & Lettering

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This sign was made from an old, rough sawn, 2×12 board that was left behind by my great grandfather. The Adirondack chair inlay was made from a scrap piece of cedar left over from making a pair of the chairs. This is going to hang above the pair of Adirondack chairs that I made which are now sitting on one …