The Woodshop Shed

Exotic wood cutting board

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Cutting board using an kit labeled as exotic wood from my local woodcraft store. Sanded to 400 grit with two coats of walrus oil cutting board oil and then a coat of walrus oil board wax.

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A couple boxes

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I don't remember when I bought it but I've been moving this piece of zebra wood around for quite some time and I finally decided to repair it and make use of it.
this shows why I haven't used it til now
and this is howw I fixed it. Polyester tinted with metalic gold micahere's a couple more pictures of the finished boxes. They both are 7” x 5” x 3 1/4” and the box is a piece of spalted walnut that was resawn into 2 pieces about 3/8” thick. The box size was determined by the length of each piece and I cut them in sequence to give the wrap around appearance and I knocked all the corners off with a 1/8” router bit. That seems to give them a smoother more comfortable appearance. (thanks Dave)
I forgot to mention, the floors or the boxes are 3/16 walnut with pleather insideAs always, Thanks for looking and comments are welcome.

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Offset Detail Sander

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When doing repair work, I often have to inlay small patches of wood into a finished surface. To help level the patch afterward without marring the adjacent surface, I made up several of these little detail sanders, band sawing them …Source

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Two-Sided Table Saw Insert

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This workshop tip saves both time and money. Make your table saw inserts two-sided to pull double duty on projects.Source

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Wooden Rigging Knife

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I love to make wooden pocket knives, but this one is different. A friend of mine dropped by the shop a couple of months ago to see what I was up to. I showed him a knife I was working on and he told me he had a knife he bet I'd never seen before and told me I could have. He brought it by the shop a few days later and he was correct. I'd never seen one and didn't know what it was….he didn't either. I looked it up and found out it's called a Rigging Knife or Sailor's Knife. It has other names.Of course I had to make one out of wood so I disassembled the Rigging Knife and started making parts. The scales are Walnut. The Shackle Key, Key Ring, Blade and Marlin Spike are oak. The springs are Bodark sapwood and the liner/screwdriver is Bodark heartwood.Here it is roughed out.After some shaping.Here it is finished with blonde Shellac.I like to make wooden knives as close to scale as the original as possible. Here is the real knife next to the wooden version.This was a fun project and looking for the next one!!

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