My daughter and her husband, Todd and Wendy Stowe, sponsored an outdoor concert at their home in Wilson Mills, NC on December 30, 2023. The Switch was the featured band and nearly 300 people were invited. Seventy-five to one hundred have accepted the invitation and...
For the Home
A Few More Cutting & Butter Boards
My dental hygienist who had gotten an edge-grain cutting board from me earlier this year wanted a bigger and end-grain one. I went to the wood store to get some Walnut, Hard maple and Purple Heart. I also used some Padauk, Patagonia Rosewood and Canarywood that I...
More End-Grain Cutting Boards for GACE
I built 2 extra boards to take to the GACE Fall Conference in Augusta, Ga. One of these boards is for one of the GACE board members. The Board member's board has a strip of Canarywood along with Walnut, Padauk, Cherry, Hard Maple, Ambrosia Maple and Purple Heart. Once...
Butter Boards Galore from the Scrap Box
After completing the cutting boards that I am going to take to the GACE convention in Augusta, Ga, I decided to make a few butter boards. Six were made in total. Four of the boards were end-grain and the final two were edge-grain. After setting the size on the...
A Few Precious Memories
In December of 2022, a young lady contacted me about a special project for her. She had a small piece of wood from a valance in her daddy's house. The house had been sold and was being remodeled but, she was able to obtain this small piece of wood. Her dad had built...
Bathroom Storage
Well, we needed some storage space in my bathroom. It has a very small vanity and the one I built several years ago has never been installed. So, I came up with this idea. This shelf unit will slip over the water closet and provide the much-needed storage space. This...
Special Cutting Boards
I built these cutting boards to be used as door prizes at the 2023 GACE Fall Conference. The two boards in the back are end-grain. The very back board is in a 'chaotic' pattern. It involved recutting and gluing the board seven times. The end-grain boards are composed...
A Bit of Touchup
I decided to update the first bench I built. It was getting old anyways. Gosh, it was at least 2 1/2 months old. I had learned so much building the last five benchest, and I wanted to incorporate some of that detail into my first bench. I removed the screws holding...
Butter Boards Galore
Had a bit of extra cherry and Red Grandis so Brenda and I made 16 Butter Boards. These are app. 6" x 10.5" in size.










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