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Carousel - before image shown with all the pieces cut and ready to sand and stain. Afterwards when all finished, just wind the bottom plate up the center pole a few turns by means of the yellow ribbons and down the horses will spin around. |
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Held together with only glue, wood pegs and snug fit, no nails or screws. Great for a grandchild so your own adult children will have to listen to the bells.
Bookends
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Rolling Toys
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Rocket Man - This was way before I was a Zadie, I was still just "dad" to my 2 small kids back in 1992. Instead of following the manufacturer's precautions of always just using a single engine (Estes Rockets), I eagerly bound 6 of the largest "D" size together and used a shipping tube to make this. Ignoring further precautions, I then used gunpowder with a lit fuse to ignite all 6 engines at the same moment. Worked like charm; just wish the parachute worked as well...
Chest of drawers built for my newborn daughter in 1984
Small Bookcase
To be filled with all the bottle corks. Hangs on the wall with a french cleat on backside.
Old "carny" sideshow gamble. There's no fix or hidden cheat - the dice are real and not gimmicked. The problem is, the odds have been figured out for you to lose... your odds of winning are just under 7%.
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Wall mounted pamphlet display. I have since added tempered glass doors.
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Yes, it's a hovercraft I built in 1987 from plans in Popular Mechanics Magazine.
...and yes it works, powered by a 5 HP lawnmower engine with a wooden two foot blade, you're hovering about 3-4 inches off the ground. The challenge was I had never done any fiberglass work (around the blade shield) nor any curved wooden forms before. I threw the 1/8 veneer pieces into the pool to soften the fibers to more easily make the bends.
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This is what you get when a friend asked me to make a prop of an Olympic Curling Stone that of course did not have the official weight of 38-44 pounds. Made out of plywood, finished with granite texture spray paint with white plex on bottom so it will slide. Weighs just over 11 pounds. The sizing is to the proper dimensions. |
Garden Guard Dog ...
Yellow Lab
High winds fell a 40' tall tree and I took down its twin. Along with 5 years worth of firewood I built these small side tables or stools.
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Restoration of a "magic" showcase originally built in 1899. All of the glazing had to be removed and replaced. Several pieces of the antique seedy glass were broken which I replaced with the same period "wavy" glass. I used Scott's Liquid Gold Wood Care to refresh all the wood areas. The base I designed and built new. The turnbuckles are for aesthetics only, not structural. There are "pockets" in the base feet for casters so this rolls nicely on the carpet. It took me about three months for the restoration and one month to build the base.
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Groggers: Last year (2019) while sitting at Synagogue services during Purim and spinning, what must be universally known as the dreck (cheap or junk) metal groggers, I thought there must be a way to make nice and sturdy ones out of wood. So this year, over six weeks, I built over 35 wooden ones. The first week I tried out different materials, styles, sizes, and templates to come up with viable working groggers. Most of the first weeks prototypes ending up in the fireplace, beholden to their efforts of either they worked or not. After that, I worked about 3-6 hours nearly every day to arrive at the finished handiwork.
I was asked to make this candle holder for a friend. It is used to honor friends & family at a Bar or Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
Here I used up all my small scraps to make trivets, bread-boards & cheese-boards.
I needed more bookshelves in my study so I made these two narrow cases with additional display areas on top accessed by a piano hinge. These fit just perfectly under some existing wall mounted display cases.
I was asked to make a candleholder for a dear friends wedding. This is what I came up with. The candles are 10 inch tapered.
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I had an idea in my head: Yard-Art made from various scraps. The hoops are made from clothing racks (when my local Sears store closed), the bottom bracket is from an old roof mounted DISH TV, and the pole is two inch electrical conduit. I used a 12 inch round concrete form filled with 300 pounds of cement, then stained it gray. Looks great when the spinners spin and the chimes give off a pleasant sound in the breeze.
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May 2022, we have a new grandson which means I've been busy making toys and such.
A child-sized rocking chair. Heirloom for future generations. Made from Cherry & Walnut.
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