Category: Projects
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Foldable outdoor table
I haven’t been doing a lot of woodworking lately so I needed a quick project to get back into building mode again. So I decided to do the forbidden: build a piece out of construction lumber. This project is a foldable table for outdoor use with a height of 60cm (sofa table height) and is…
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Storage Box
A friend of mine had a couple of off-cuts from some shelves that was just laying around. Since I’ve just been building some stools from the Dania series of furniture, I knew about a storage box in the same series that could be a good project to build from the off-cuts. I decided to make…
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Copycat Stool
I needed a handy stool to be able to conveniently reach stuff higher up around the house. A design that I like is the Dania Step Ladder Stool in the Skagerak collection by Fritz Hansen, and if it wasn’t for my interest in woodworking I’d probably buy it! This one was a really fun challenge…
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Coat Hook Shelf
This was a quick project I made as practice for an upcoming project. Small coat hook shelf with a design inspired by a classic Swedish bookshelf. The main challenge here was to get a tight fit between the groove on the wall mount and the shelf itself. After a few days I noticed that the…
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Shelf Bracket
One off shelf bracket made from oak. The two pieces are joined together by a domino, and I drew and cut the contour by freehand using the bandsaw. Finally, I rounded it off with a 3mm round over bit on the router table.
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Toy Storage
I had a sheet of semi-nice pine plywood, so I figured I could use it to re-create an IKEA model for toy storage. It’s surprisingly tricky to get everything perfectly square with a track saw, so a framing square came in handy. For cutting the grooves I used my router table with a 16mm straight…
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Doll House Bookshelf
Small bookshelf, which resembles/doubles as a doll house, inspired by an existing model. The challenge here was to find angles for the roof that looked nice, and then cutting the pieces to the right lengths and angles. In order to make it look a bit more polished and less edgy I decided to chamfer the…
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Small Storage Shelf
Quick and cheap storage shelf, using construction lumber and pre-made boards that just needed to be sanded and cut to length. To make it look a bit more interesting I chamfered all the edges. This project reminded me that I need to get more clamps!
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‘Tis the Season
Inspired by a couple of YouTube clips and this article I decided to do a quick project creating a Christmas star out of some scrap spruce I had lying around. The only tools needed were a miter saw and a pin nailer.
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Kitchen Drawer Organizer, no.2
Slightly unhappy with my mistakes on the previous organizer, I decided to make another one. I didn’t have any beech left, so this one I made of alder, which is substantially softer (softer than pine) which posed new challenges. This time I used a white hard wax oil as finish. In the end it turned…
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Small Serving tray
Inspired by Steve Ramsey (woodworking for mere mortals), I decided to build a small serving tray for collecting all the cruft we keep on our dining table. I used alder for the sides and 4mm B-grade pine plywood for the bottom. The main challenge in this project was to properly cut out the handle with…
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Kitchen Drawer organizer
Tired of plastic organizers I wanted to make a nice one out of wood. After measuring and making a quick Sketchup drawing I started milling some boards out of beech. For this project I wanted to practice making box joints, and my general router table skills. I made some stupid mistakes in this project, like…
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Basement Hatch
Our access hatch for the basement was falling apart so felt inclined to make a new one. A pretty simple design made of construction lumber with pre made tongues and grooves for fitting the boards together
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My First Project
I made this baby size chair based on a garden sofa design I liked. The challenge was the tapered legs and the angled back support, but because the chair is so small, I was able to do most work on the mitre saw. If I were to redo this project I’d probably use different joinery…