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Pallet Wood Butcherblock Countertop that Pivots! (bar top ➔ dining table)

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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 …

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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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Kitchen Island Cabinet from Reclaimed Wood

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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 …

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Giant Maker Knife

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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 …

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Roof Rack Customization

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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 …

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Pallet Wood Pencils

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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 …

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“Topographic” Pallet Wood Wall Map

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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 …

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Laminated Pallet Wood Guitar

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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 …

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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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Life-Size Nutcracker

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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 …

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Pallet Wood (diamond pattern) Coasters

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“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 …

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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 …