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adventures in woodworking and home maintenance, from my shop in an oversized backyard shed

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Toy Cars and Trucks

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Toy Cars and TrucksThis is a 1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III I built for my son Chris.



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Utility Cabinet

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Utility CabinetI could not take the accumulation of ” stuff ” on my workbench in the barn any longer. So last night I started cutting up all kinds of plywood from my stash in the barn to make this cabinet. It is cobbled up from 3/4” and 5/8” maple, Baltic birch and oak plywood and the top is a cutoff piece of a laminated table top from another project.
It has 4 casters on the bottom so I can move it out of the way if needed. People give me stuff all the time…I can't say no to free stuff..but it has been piling up there for 30 years. I took a before and after shot of the work table and the new cabinet filled with the “stuff”. I have not seen that whole top for a long time. I had to make it sturdy with cross braces screwed and glued under the bottom because it has a lot of weight in it. There are 5 microwave transformers and about 70# of lead ingots in there.The cabinet is finished with shellac just to make it clean up easier.Cheers, Jim



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The first and only Portuguese Wood Flag

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The first and only Portuguese Wood FlagOne of my main motivations to build something is building something no one has donne before. And after a quick web search I found out that no one has ever build a wood flag of my country, and there is a reason for that. Unlike the US or Canada where there are lots of designs and some other flags with a relatively simple build, the portuguese flag isnt one of them and that inicially I didnt had any ideia on how to make this. I ended up ask the internet and sure enough I had 4/5 options, I used them all.
First I used transparent vanish mixed with paint to get the big colours. Then I painted the inner blue shields and drilled the 5 points with a dremel, using the same dremel I also carved all the white center shield that I later filled with resin. For the sphere I decided to carve the wood manually (in the orginal flag the sphere is yellow which is basically the same colour as pine, the building material, pallet wood). After that it was just buring the castles with a welding iron and adding some transparent vanish on the top and voilla!!!I will also leave a short 3min video on the entire build, overall I think it looks nice, now I just have to hang it on my wall.””Video on Youtube””:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhBZra6Uy0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhBZra6Uy0



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