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Chinese Checkers

Great little mug rugs, Always.  I love your Japanese theme.

Here is my next finished project, Chinese Checkers, with a storage drawer for the marbles.  I wouldn't want to lose my marbles.

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I finished making my temple blocks.  These are percussion toys.  They are Asian in nature, having been found in Buddhist Temples.  I just like the idea of making blocks that sing.  Each one has its own tone.  

I still have to build a stand for them, and I think I'm going to burn some kanji symbols on them.

So here are the chairs that I have acquired.  Now all I have to do is make them usable.

Just a little inspiration for you all.  This wasn't a total redo, but we acquired an old (1963) travel trailer that was in horrible condition.  This was part of our redo for the upholstery.  The first photo shows it just like we received it, and the second photo shows the cushions redone in a new upholstery fabric, and all the woodwork reworked.

Ok, this project has been more than six weeks in the making.  It is made entirely from scatch, no kit.  The back, sides and headstock are walnut. the front is silk spruce, the neck and bridge are mahogany, the fretboard is purpleheart, and the nut and saddle are ebony.  All of the splines on the inside are pine.

It has nine coats of shellac on it.

Anyway, here is my latest project, a ukulele.

Here is the rocker that I reconstructed awhile back.



It doesn't have any reupholstery on it, but it was reconstructed because it had fallen apart and I saved it from the landfill.

And I would love to find a chair and learn some caning skills

Ok, this project has been more than six weeks in the making.  It is made entirely from scatch, no kit.  The back, sides and headstock are walnut. the front is silk spruce, the neck and bridge are mahogany, the fretboard is purpleheart, and the nut and saddle are ebony.  All of the splines on the inside are pine.

It has nine coats of shellac on it.

Anyway, here is my latest project, a ukulele.

Ok, swords, shields, battle axes and belt daggers for the little knights at the Renaissance Faire that we will be attending next month.

Ok, here are some of my gourd bowls. 

The spoons take about one to two hours, depending on the type of wood that I am using.  Decorative spoons take a little longer.  I am currently working on a love spoon that seems to be taking forever, only because I'm not practiced enough to just zip through it.

Not all of my projects are wood, or take a lot of skill.  I have also been doing some fun things with paper.  We cleaned out our files for the new year and I found a lot of paper that was printed on only one side.  I usually use this kind of paper for origami practice.

Here's a project that was done with this kind of paper.  Some of it has lines and some doesn't.  There are no fasteners of any kind.  The journals are held together by the folds.  Not real practical, but they were fun to make.