Author: mikel

In December, I made a laser cut stained wood Santa piece for a Christmas gift. I always have to wait to publish anything about gifts, and tend to wait too long. I drew the image in Inkscape and laser cut it as a series of small shapes, stained each piece, glued them together and made…

Last weekend I built a woodworking mallet out of oak. I needed a mallet to help with assembling and banging on things without as much damage as a plain metal hammer would leave, so I built my own. Building a mallet is often used as a basic woodworking introductory project since it’s not very hard…

Finished Decorative Wood Piece For this project, I had some tree cookies from what might have been a Mesquite tree. I wanted to smooth them over and use one for a cake stand and maybe make a clock from another. I had 5 pieces originally in case some didn’t turn out, and one was used…

Last weekend I worked on building some picture frames from scratch. They didn’t turn out the way I hoped, but I will probably still use them. Gold Frames I wanted to make some custom sized frames to hold some photos and mats for the welcome table at our wedding, one will frame an 8×8 square…