Kati bought a paper mache deer head from Hobby Lobby and asked me to make her a mount for it. I used my flexible curve ruler to design a basic mount shape and cut it out on my scroll saw. After sanding it with my random orbital sander, I used a Roman Ogee bit in […]
VLOG: Hangers Project, Quantum Leap & Veep, Pump Car Scooter, and More!
Izzy Swan’s Pump Car Scooter Let’s Make Some Luggage Clothes Hangers
Let’s Make Some Luggage Clothes Hangers
Kati had some vintage luggage with clothes hangers. The clothes hangers had broken corners and she asked me to make her some new ones. I went out to the lumber store, picked up some 5/8″ Birch plywood. I used a Kreg Rip-Cut to cut the plywood down to size and my old Craftsman scroll saw […]
Let’s Make a Knick Knack Shelf
Kati asked me to make her a shelf to put a her collectables and knick knacks on up in her office area. I went out to the lumber store, picked up some select pine for this job and decided that I was going to try to build a french cleat. I got some 8′ x […]
Let’s Make Some Gallery Stretcher Bars
I bought my wife the Empty Child print on canvas from David Pollot’s Etsy store and decided I could save 70$ if I mounted it myself on some DIY Gallery Stretcher Bars. The build process is similar to making a frame or box, the hard part was actually stretching the canvas on over the bars. […]