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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Lumberjocks: Woodworking Paraphernalia by Trent

I am entranced by professional wood workers.  The obsession with detail, ingenuity, imagination, and hard work that goes into a finished project is amazing.  As I'm still developing my skills and building my arsenal of tools, I find myself searching for other works as inspiration.  LumberJocks satisfies this search.

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/31067
Gorgeous hand carved chairs take such attention to detail.  The wood choice, the joinery, the angles and carved seat, the finish, I wouldn't even know where to start with a project like this.  But my lord I want to sit in it!

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/12857

I like to call furniture like this "Alice in Wonderland Furniture." Pieces that look like they're going to come alive.  I mean WOW!   Can you imagine seeing this greet you everyday at your front door?  Some of the incredible features on this piece are wooden hinges, one of the eyes was a knot in wood (HOW COOL!), a ton of different wood choices to make this come alive, and just the incredible imagination!  Super neat.

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/52918
Check out this awesome hammock!  This guy used bent lamination, or thin strips that he bent to a form, then glued together to make the finished product.  Wood bending is exciting and terrifying at the same time to me!

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/11382
Here's another great bent lamination technique, with a glass table to highlight the bends!

I like when people mix materials other than wood; glass and metal are fascination additions
Here's another awesome bending piece.  This table was made completely from a 2x4!  INCREDIBLE!

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/4874
And if you think that table's amazing, look at this birdcage!  It's made from 1 2x4x8!!!  The ingenuity and time taken to develop pieces like these just astound me!

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/4750

You can see how easy it is to get sucked into that website.  So many incredible craftsmen with unique perspectives and styles.  This place really gets my gears turning.  I just wish I had all of the tools and time necessary to create the projects I have in mind.  

Normally I just build from necessity.  Some garden boxes and a garden fence which was NECESSARY as Gabe kept picking everything before it was even close to ripe: 
In the background you can see the garden fence and fence picket garden boxes
And here's a baby gate I made out of a crib to keep the kids out of the kitchen.  I have a how to article I'm going to publish in the near future on this.

Baby Gate
The only true labor of love that I've created for my family is a rocking horse for Gabe's birthday. This was made using the Wood Whisperer's plans. http://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/announcements/charity-build-results/

Rocking horse
I want to make either a pirate ship or a different rocking animal for Abbey's first birthday or Christmas.

Anyways, Lumberjocks is an awesome website, and totally addicting!  Take a short look around, if you're interested in wood working in the slightest, it will turn into a long look.

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