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TechnicalImpulse

@technicalimpulse.bsky.social

It's a bowl. It's a cutting board. It's half-way in between.
For cutting dry ingredients (think nuts or chocolate) that have a tendency to spray little pieces all over.

A shallow bowl cut into a thick cutting board.

April 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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AleaPendragon

@aleapendragon.bsky.social

D&D dice Laser engraved sets of my cutting board coasters. #coaster #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dice #d20 #cuttingboard #aleasinspirations #femalewoodworker
#woodworking #laserengraving

April 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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Boilard Artisan

@boilardartisan.com

The Oslo low table
Modern Minimalist Design
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La table basse d'Oslo
Design minimaliste moderne
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#woodworking #wood #woodfurniture #finewoodworking #woodworker #quebec #artisan #artisanquebec #madeinquebec #madeincanada #faitauquebec

April 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕

@rogerzenaf.bsky.social

Another dovetailed walnut stash box finished and shipping out this week.🙂
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#WoodWorking #HandTools

March 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕

@rogerzenaf.bsky.social

And here's a big dovetailed walnut stash box (for edibles) that is also going out this week.🙂
#WoodWorking #HandTools

March 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM

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Op Wood Works3D

@opwoodworks3d.bsky.social

🔪 End Grain Cutting Board, Butcher Block No 034c/1 🔪
A masterpiece of craftsmanship, this end grain cutting board is designed for durability, beauty, and superior knife-edge protection. Perfect for professional chefs and home cooking enthusiasts alike! #CuttingBoard #Handcrafted #Woodworking

March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM

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Robb Helmkamp

@helmkamp.bsky.social

Walnut and aluminum box from a few years ago. One-of-a-kind. This is one of my very favorite boxes that I have made in the last few years. Somebody lucky added this one to their collection… #walnut #aluminum #Kampstudio #RobbHelmkamp #Woodworking #Charleston #southcarolina #boxes #handmade

April 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM

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Boilard Artisan

@boilardartisan.com

Modular black walnut bookcase
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Bibliothèque modulaire en noyer noir
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#woodworking #wood #woodfurniture #finewoodworking #woodworker #quebec #artisan #artisanquebec
#etsyseller #madeincanada

March 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM

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Mike Edwards

@mike-edwards.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

I have to pause for a couple of these. Here's a wooden-slab lamp with a shade using shoji rice-paper screen motifs, a really fine example of George Nakashima's work combining modern American and Japanese traditional design and craft

#woodworking #art #design #photography #japan

Wooden slab lamp and shade with shoji screen motifs

March 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM

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Brad & Hank

@brgjr88.bsky.social

Beautiful Cherry wood tissue box cover! 🍒
#woodworking
#woodisgood😉
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March 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Denver is too damn high 🚲

@yodelinghippie.bsky.social

Crazy how long it can take to get dovetails dialed in just right
#woodworking

March 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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Blood and Sawdust

@bloodandsawdust.bsky.social

I enjoy these sliding-top boxes; they’re relatively easy to make and are quite useful for all sorts of storage. Some lovely examples were found on the #MaryRose. #woodworking #joinery

This sliding top box is made of red oak. It uses simple rabbet joints and iron nails.

This sliding top box is made of a tropical wood (I forget the species) and pinned together with tacks. It serves as my tool box first aid kit

March 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Denver is too damn high 🚲

@yodelinghippie.bsky.social

Mmmmmmm
Boxes.
Still lots to do here but the most frightening part is done. I didn't plane down any additional parts for error so if I had flipped one of these the wrong way or used a side as a front by mistake I was screwed
#woodworking

March 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Wood Industry Magazine / Le monde du bois

@woodindustry.bsky.social

Vention, a leader in industrial automation, has launched its first turnkey robotic sanding solution to meet the increasing demand for automated sanding work cells, particularly in the cabinetmaking industry. #Woodworking #Cabinetry #Canada #WoodIndustry

Vention Introduces Turnkey Robotic Sanding Solution for Cabinetmakers and Woodworkers

Vention, a leader in industrial automation, has launched its first turnkey robotic sanding solution to meet the increasing demand for automated sanding work cells, particularly in the cabinetmaking…

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March 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM

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Martin

@halfbakedboat.shop

#woodworking Realized I never posted that nightstand I mentioned working on over a month ago. It's been done since the end of January but I didn't take good photos of it before putting it into its dark corner so these will have to do. Design and build by yours truly. Let me know what you think :)

I did my design work for this project by just messing around in blender until I ended up with something I liked that more or less met the criteria of the project. It's a great way to quickly try different proportions and (very) rough colours. This image shows three different renders of the nightstand with differently coloured accent woods. The light parts were always going to be a maple veneered particle board but for the accent I had a choice of a few woods. The first accent wood depicted here is sort of a honey/amber colour(alder), the second a dark-brown(black walnut), and the third a very red-brown(sapele). I ended up going with the the black walnut, which ended up being considerably lighter and more brown once it was hit with a finish than what I estimated here.

The front of the finished nightstand sitting in the middle of a room for better lighting. I tried to challenge myself to create visual interest with creative use of wood rather than with shape. As a result the overall shape is very simple, more or less a 500x500x600mm box with 50mm feet. It has a cabinet door with a single drawer above it, both of which have an inset panel.

I sort of had the idea that this piece should look vaguely like a maple box suspended between two arcs of walnut(this might make more sense in the the next picture) but the final appearance of the front of the thing more gives the impression of a vertical icecream sandwich. The light maple wood with all grain oriented horizontally is sandwiched on either side by a continuous, from feet to top, 84mm wide strip of walnut with all vertical grain. This strip has 50mm cutouts where the stiles(vertical pieces) of the cabinet door frame and drawer face are "incorporated" into this walnut strip. It was very important for the final look that the walnut of the face frame and door and drawer lined up well enough that any discrepancies don't draw the eye. The grain of the face frame and door and drawer styles do not match up super well, which is just a result of the materials I had access to but this is something I'd look to improve on the off chance I build something like this again. The feet and are tapered slightly on both sides so that the don't look too chunky.

View is looking at the front left edge so you can also see the left side of the cabinet. Here you can see the walnut strip is carried along the top and down the back of the nightstand too, creating that "arc" I was referring to in the previous photo. You may also notice that some of the wooden joints don't make sense. This is because other than the maple particle board panels, all of the solid wood of the carcass is actually poplar with a 2-3mm veneer of either walnut or maple. Only the door frame and drawer face use solid maple or walnut. This keeps costs down and allows for the more efficient use of finer woods. It also allowed me to make the three separate pieces of the build, the top, carcass, and feet look like a single piece by applying the veneers on the front after final assembly. The final notable part of this piece is the handles which are a sort of clam shell style and made out of walnut as well. They are vertically oriented and aligned along the inner edge of the left walnut strip(the matching nightstand would be mirrored of course). I originally wanted them to look like waves in a ribbon of walnut but they didn't turn out graceful enough. Everyone who has seen them seems to like them though, so I can't complain.

Apologies for all this very confused alt text, I tried my best to describe this thing but it's definitely a skill I need to work on.

February 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕

@rogerzenaf.bsky.social

It fit! 🤣😂🤣
#woodworking #handtools

February 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕

@rogerzenaf.bsky.social

I guess it works better with the picture...🙄😆

February 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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Alan O'Hara

@alanoforreal.bsky.social

Wow! I've been using darker stains on my last many projects, so it was a treat bringing this fire salvaged cedar to life with Rubio Pure. I'm SUPER loving it! I made #Woodart !!

#woodworking
#salvagelog

February 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Guy Albertelli

@albertel.bsky.social

Sometimes #woodworking can be very satisfying.

Closeup photo of a small cube of wood. Each of the three edges of the cube have been chamfered and meet together at the corner perfectly forming a small pyramid. No tearout on that corner.

There is a messy workbench and stool in the background and the photographers thumb.on the left side.

February 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM

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Alan O'Hara

@alanoforreal.bsky.social

Compound angle legs are tricky. Not perfect but not so bad I need to start over. If you end up on the floor looking up at the bottom of the table, you're probably not so worried those joints aren't spot on. Edge rounding, final sanding and some #RubioPure to finish up.

#woodworking
#woodshop

February 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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Devin Woodard

@captndevo.bsky.social

Wanted a random no pressure project to take my mind off the fascist takeover and was inspired by my browning bananas. Cherry with a danish oil finish. I love Cherry grain patterns 😍
#woodworking #woodworker #cherry #bananas #handmade