Your WoodworkingWeb Gazette

Welcome to Issue 2.08 ~ August 2015

Summertime: so many things to be built for summer enjoyment; so many things to DO during the summer... so little time left for creating the visions.

, how do you balance summer life with summer woodworking?

~ Debbie

Summer Awards

Congratulations to our Award Winners!

Special congrats to Mike S, our top Award Winner!

See all the results here

I’ve been a long time tool owner, but consider myself a real beginner when it comes to woodworking. I’ve decided to put the stuff in my garage to use instead of just gathering dust. I don’t intend to do any large projects at this time, but likely things like boxes and turnings, stuff the wife wants... ~ Mike

Inspirations

Ice Chest

Created by Coby Mills

I make custom Ice chest for a hobby. I try to make the chest to represent more of a piece of furniture than just gluing and screwing a bunch of boards together. With the wood around the Ice chest, helps to keep the ice frozen for several days. Here in Texas, that is a challenge with 100 plus days.

Garden Arbor

Created by Kiefer

This is made from pine and I designed the top with openings in the beams that connect the front and back (pic 5 )so I can let the branches of the Virginia Creeper grow through there and avoid having them blow off in the strong winds that we get at times.

More Amazing WoodworkingWeb Creations

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Your know you're a woodworker when ....

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From You, Our Members

building a better mousetrap .... or measuring tape. Check this out. What a great birthday present!
Build Series: Chevalets: at the Sooke Fine Art Show [...] will be doing four hours of chevalet / marquetry demos there as well. When I have done this in the past I have always had inquiries about classes which I have always put off because...

Theme Challenge: SHAVINGS

You've seen these beautiful creations, yes?
Well, don't they just inspire you to make some shavings and see what you can make?
You know you want to .... so get out the plane, make some curly-cues (or not so curly cues) and make, well... something! (Thanks Kiefer for the inspiration)

(and share them HERE, of course!)