Posts tagged as «cypress»

• Sun and Tung Oil

This is a simple project of making a live edge shelf for my son.  I had nicely prepped a piece of Cypress with a plane.   When I asked what color he wanted it, he said “Black, let’s torch it.”  So we burned it with a weedburner, brushed it off with a blue nyalox drill brush, […]

• Charcuterie Board – Planche?

Back in May 2020, my son made a serving tray as a gift for his teacher and wrote about it here. Fast forward to December 2022 and we get a call from his past teacher offering him his first commission for another one.  Only now we can’t call it a serving tray, we have to […]

• Heart Bar Stool

I had this idea kicking around in my head for a barstool made from a log with a built in footrest.  My original thought was for a square seat, but used on a diagonal like a diamond.  Then I was looking for ways to reduce the weight and realized that the back corner of the […]