Hearts boards and a horse

Nighthawk sent over a picture of his version of my bent-wood Valentine candy box. He says it was a good way to earn bonus points with his wife and justify tool purchases. Read more about it on his blog.

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Over on Facebook, Mark Martinez posted his heart. His first attempt at bent lamination.

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Bill Wilson, always in the shop, tried his hand at his first cutting board. Since Ive made my first, family members are putting in requests for Christmas!

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Wanted to also show off some very creative pieces by Vincent Fulton that remind me of highly stylized cutting boards!

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Finally, I wanted to show you a new woodworker making videos. This is 10-year-old Matthew Agate  from Placentia, Newfoundland Canada, who built a rocking horse as part of Marc Spagnuolos Woodworkers Fighting Cancer charity build. A lot of people built these horses, but Matthew has to be the youngest. Nice work Matthew! Looking forward to more videos.

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Chess boards

Posted by chun | 0 comments | 10:57 AM

Seems a lot of people have been making chess boards lately.
Bill Wilson is such a prolific woodworker. Im always impressed at the volume of projects he cranks out. Heres his multi-use chess board: chess, checkers and dominoes. I love the chess pieces.

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Jim Allgeier from Cape Charles, VA built this chess board based on my design from a few years ago. He used Maple and Cherry (I like that combination for a chess board) and gave this to his ten-year-old son for Christmas.

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Over on Facebook, Bert Collett posted his chess board made with black walnut and curly maple. The box is black walnut. The base and drawers are old heart pine. Just gorgeous.

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Unrelated to chess (but using a similar technique to create the grid pattern) I just completed my first cutting board. I kind of screwed up the alignment of the pattern, but Im still fairly satisfied. 

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