Projects

This section collects the rebuilt Plan-to-Build project pages. Some pages are fully rewritten, while older archive pages have been brought over so they can be reviewed and polished inside the new site. If you spot a missing photo, broken link, or project detail that should be cleaned up, use the Contact page and let me know.

Single Sheet Plywood Desk When my wife bought a new computer, we needed a desk that could be built quickly, keep the room feeling open, and fit neatly into... Tiny Cabin In The Woods We wanted a small cabin on our property for a long time. I started with a purchased set of plans, rebuilt the idea in Google... Woodworker's Storage Bin For Cutoffs I needed a better way to store cutoffs from different projects. I had been tossing the pieces worth saving into a plastic tub, but... Outdoor Rocking Chair This rocking chair started as a scrap-lumber challenge after a few back porch repairs left me with extra outdoor boards.... Height Tracker For Kids Like a lot of families, we tracked our children's height on a door jamb for years. When we moved, those marks had to stay behind,... Corner Plywood Desk After building the quick plywood desk for my wife, she suggested I make a desk for the boys. I went with a corner layout so both... Miniature Night Stand 1/6 Scale This miniature night stand is a playscale prototype built to verify the cut-sheet portion of the plans. Building the first version... 1/6 Scale Furniture - Dry Sink With Plans This playscale dry sink is one of the more detailed 1/6 scale furniture projects. It makes a good conversation piece, but the small... 1/6 Scale Dining Room Table And Chairs This 1/6 scale dining room table and chair set was built for 12 inch dolls. I expected the project to be fairly simple, but the... Over Engineered Cornhole Boards The Over Engineered Cornhole Boards earned their name from the extra mechanisms built into them: latches, a twine measuring system,... Simple Dowel Making Jig I spent several hours in the shop yesterday trying to make a dowel making jig similar to the one Mathias Wandell... Making Lugs For 3/0 cable from copper pipe I am gearing up to install a solar powered system out at my cabin. I have been trying to mock up the installation at my home where... Testing the Solar Setup This weekend I went out to the cabin and I noticed there was no full sun in the area I planned to mount the solar panels. Now that... Ole Blue's Rebirth For the past 6 years or so I have been looking at all the cool mods people do to their FJ’s and now that Ole Blue is paid off I am... Working on the Kitchenette I’ve also been working on the Kitchenette a little more and I think I have finally gotten it just about ready to build. It is going... 4x4 Deer stand After working on my neighbor’s Ginormous Deer stand I thought it would be a good idea to come up with one similar but for a single... The Ginormous Modular Deer Stand My neighbor was looking for a deer stand that he could fit his whole family in while still having room to move about. The... Sectional Couch and Water Supply This past weekend involved a spur of the moment trip out to the Cabin for a few reasons. My wife found a nice sectional couch…just... Designing the Kitchenette I spent this afternoon designing our kitchenette for the Cabin. Still needs a few hours worth or work to get it into a plan state... Cabin Project Ideas This archive page has been brought over from the old site and may still need a tighter rewrite, additional YouTube... CNC box joint jig...the beginning I’ve recently been playing around with the Raspberry Pi and after spending a little time lighting up LED’s and setting up... What to do with my Raspberry Pi I have just recently been introduced to the Raspberry Pi and I thought it could turn out some fun projects…so I bought one. What is... Tree Stump Puller Ideas... When I Pulled my camper onto my property I had to cut down about 15 trees. Most of them are just around 4 inches in diameter. Now I... Camper Tearout Once I got this old camper home and took a better look at it, I began to realize that I maybe made a poor decision. Oh well, it... $100 Camper Vs Hut Idea We originally planned on building a hut using on hand materials for most of the framework and purchasing little as possible from... Bunk Beds for the Camper This stack of lumber costed 70 bucks at the local home improvement store…Not too bad for a set of full size bunk beds Write up published in The Heritage of Lunenburg County 1743-2009 As a boy growing up in the southern part of Lunenburg County, one of the places of interest was an abandoned hunting lodge called... History of the Bungalow and Bungalow Property The history of the Bungalow property, which has one large gristmill that was erected nearby, a smaller mill built in the center of... 1/6 Playscale scale hinges for Dry Sink I’ve been working on the set of plans for the 1/6 scale Dry Sink and have gotten to the part where I need to either buy some scale... Restoring my Table Saw I started this project by removing the extension tables and side rails. Outboard Foot Repaired with JB Weld $3.00 in JB Weld and scrap aluminum sure beats the $150.00 price tag of a used foot for my little outboard! Irwin Quick Grip Clamp Repair I thought I broke one of my Irwin Quick Grip clamps by pulling the handle out accidentally…but it is easy to fix Wooden Computer With Chessboard Top I started out the project by building a temporary case so I could make sure all of my parts worked together and to get an idea of... Simple Wooden Storage Box/Drawers I was dying to try out my screw advanced box joint jig, so I decided to make a few storage drawers that would fit the the shelving... Some Rustic Furniture I've Built Here is a small collection of rustic furniture I built after returning from a vacation to the Smokey Mountains. This stuff was... Rustic Coffee Table My wife tried to steal my workbench top to use in the house, but I wouldn’t let her have it. Instead I built her a smaller version... Nesting Chairs Rev 1.0 I’ve been looking around for a type of chair that would store easily out at my property (http://2daystalk.com/our-cabin-project/)... Medical Bottle Holder Project My next door neighbor, who is a nurse, asked me to build a container that would house medical bottles in order to prevent... End Vise for Bench Dog Holes I wanted to add an end vise to my table, but didn’t want to spend big bucks on the traditional ones you see on most benches, so I... DIY Wooden Backpack Frames Here we are sporting our new wooden backpack frames I built just before this trip to Jones Mountain Cabin. It was a 5 mile hike... Craftsman Style Tool Box I was cleaning out the barn the other day and was about to toss an old sewing cabinet out, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. I... Wooden book Coloring Box Wesley and I made a coloring box for his color pencils, crayons, etc… and somewhere in the middle of the construction process the... Add side extensions to table saw I finally finished up the extension tables for my Delta Shopmaster Tablesaw. I ended up resurfacing the left extensionextention... 3 Thick Solid Benchtop First real project using the workbench…Is a coffee table for the wife. She wanted my workbench top in the house, but I wouldn’t... Screw Advanced Box Joint Jig I ran across one of the most inspirational websites I have ever seen (woodgears.ca (http://woodgears.ca)) and decided to build a... Vanity Built with live edge Lumber I made this bathroom vanity with a collection of rough cut lumber, and salvaged hardwood flooring. The framework is made from pecan... A Collection of Chess Sets I have Made It all started one day when I decided to try to carve a fishing lure from a piece of white cedar my Dad cut up on the sawmill. I... 32x36 Barn Built with Rough Cut Lumber I built my 32×36 barn with rough cut lumber cut with my dad’s sawmill. The lumber is long leaf yellow pine which is one of the best...