One of my neighbors saw one of these hanging in my shop that says 'Dad's Shop', which I got the pattern for off of Steve Good's Scroll Saw Workshop website. She asked me to make her one that says Pa's Shop to give to her Dad for Father's Day. I cut this out of a 1x8 pine board that I had.
I painted it up, and had a hard time getting the red paint to turn out smooth, so I had to redo it after this photo was taken. I don't know why I didn't get a new photo.
I have a mall Craftsman bench-top drill press. I watched Steve Ramsey's video on how to build a table for it, and thought that looked like a project I could finish in one afternoon. I already had the wood needed, but I did have to make a store run for the hardware.
The only thing I would do different, is make the table surface a little wider. Otherwise, I'm happy with it and it works excellent. So far, every time I've used it, I've put a board down between the table and my workpiece to deep from damaging the surface.
This build was commissioned by a friend from church, Karen. She sent the measurements, such as the height she wanted it, and the length and width of the top. The only other specifications was, it needed to look nice, and be inexpensive. Alrighty then!
So, that word inexpensive led me to building grade materials....pine boards. That was fine by me, because that's mostly what I use anyway. Pine is inexpensive, readily available, and can be made to look really nice. Especially for indoor projects.
I'll admit it, I had a pallet boards left over after the 'Sun' project, and decided to make this piano art to hang over my piano.
For this project, I joined the boards after squaring the edges up, by gluing them. I did it this way because I wanted it to hang as flat against the wall as possible. I attached the black keys with brad nails.
I think it turned out pretty good for something that didn't take much time at all. By the way, I used the board with the knot hole on purpose. At the time, I thought it added character. ha!
This is a project for a friend. She asked me to make her a sun with pallet wood, providing me with an example she got from Pinterest. She already had a few pallets at her house, and I went by and got them.
First, I cut the boards in these 'pie piece' shapes, and fit them together. For the circle part, I used some scrap plywood I had laying around.
I upgraded my scrollsaw from the Wen 3921 to the Dewalt 788. First of all, no comparison. The improvements between the two saws is less about how well they cut, and more about everything else.
