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Roman woodplane 3 re-created
In 1997, at De Meern near Utrecht in The Netherlands, a sunken Roman barge was excavated. It’s believed to date from the second century AD. The barge held a large variety of objects including four...
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Keepsake box in oak
Our grandson is twenty-one today and as I really enjoy making boxes, the occasion was just the excuse I needed to make yet another one. This one’s all in oak complete with plenty of so-called flaws in...
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Jewellery / jewelry box in oak
I was approached some months ago by a lady who wanted me to make her a jewellery box to celebrate the forthcoming birth of her baby. I had to wait weeks for some feedback as her husband forbad her to...
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A plane from The Dark Ages reconstructed
In the 1950s, W. L. Goodman, author of the 1964 book: ‘The History of Woodworking Tools’ did a conjectural reconstruction of a Saxon plane from around 600 A.D. The original had a body made of horn, set...
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A simple box in spalted elm
Some time ago my son-in-law deposited part of an unidentified tree-stump on my drive-way. As soon as I quartered it, I realised it was going to be ‘interesting’. Early this year, I bandsawed some...
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Patchwork USB memory sticks / jump drives / whatever else they're called
No piece of interesting wood is too small to be used for something! That’s why my workshop and woodstore become dreadfully cluttered with offcuts. These little items are not going to make any...
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Jewel box - Mother Nature's Magic
Our son-in-law deposited a tree stump on our driveway some months ago and I recently posted details of the first box I’d made from its ‘contents’. The wood it provides gets better and better. The lid...
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At last - cutting boards from Yorkshire!
There are, as at January 9th 2012, 774 projects labelled with ‘cutting board’ on Lumberjocks. I thought I ought to see what the attraction is, so 2012 saw me in the ‘shop knocking some out. For me, the...
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A plethora of buttons
Mrs YS is a really keen knitter & a couple of years ago I made her a ‘giant’ button to attach to a knitted hat. Through her network of knitting friends, more requests came in for similar ones &...
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Small oak jewel box - Arts and Crafts?
This is my idea of an Arts and Crafts Style box. It’s made from some lovely pieces of reclaimed quarter-sawn oak which clearly display the distinctive markings of the medullary rays. The exposed tenon...
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A wooden-hinged box in wenge and bird's eye maple
I have mentioned before, Mrs YS’s love of the craft of knitting. She’s an active member of knitting’s equivalent of Lumberjocks. It’s called Ravelry.com (with over 1.4 million members!). Who said...
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Another Cutting Board. It's not an obsession - honestly!
I decided to make ‘just one more’ cutting board and to stretch the difficulty level ever so slightly. Here’s the result. I took the photograph under artificial light so the colour is a bit off. This...
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Oak bureau
I had, some time ago, spread the word through the family that I had retired from making ‘big stuff’. However, my step-son asked so nicely if I’d make a bureau for him to give to his wife for her...
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Another wooden-hinged box in oak
This one measures about 10” x 14” x 8”. The box itself is from a nice board of brown oak that deserved to be shown off, as did the piece of burr oak from which I made the lid. It’s big enough to be...
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Box in ash with wooden hinge
A young lady I know asked for a box she could give as a baptism present and left the design to me. A light coloured wood variety seemed right, so I dug out this piece of ash that has some nice colour...
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Yorkshire version of a Greene and Greene box
A little board of quarter-sawn oak that had been kicking around my shop for some time just had to be shown off, and much of the lid came from a bag of firewood I was given. A book I have on Arts and...
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A 'Stickleyish' oak Yorkshire box
I may be taking a risk here as I quote from the rules… ”Yes, I want to post my finished project that is made of wood If it doesn’t fit the above description (like ….. projects in progress etc.), either...
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Box for my Stanley 55
I finally got around to giving my Stanley 55 a box it deserves. I know the wood should be chestnut, the finger jointing should be finer & that the main label hasn’t got the right picture on it, but...
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My first lap steel guitar
It’s quite some time since I posted a project. I’ve been well involved for several years in the running (voluntarily) of the local museum, but new management brooms were sweeping too deeply so I came...
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"Overflow" The first time I've given a box a name!
A friend did a most wonderful charcoal portrait for me and refused payment so I made this oak box for him. The compartments ‘just happened’ to be the right size to accept his boxes of drawing...
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