If you have a scroll saw, this is a fun project with endless creative possibilities. Combining three scroll-sawed panels into one shadowbox gives a wonderful sense of depth to the scene and an LED strip in the back gives the scene a sunset glow. If you are really ambitious, you could attach one side of the shadowbox with screws […]
Here’s a cute project to kick off the holiday season! This mailbox would be fun for kids to send letters to Santa, or you can get creative and come up with other uses for it! Either way it’s a fairly simple project. The only tricky part is cutting the bevels to create the curved top. […]
I hope you enjoy this year’s extra spooky Halloween special! I’ve been planning for over a year to make the bullet-riddled duck pull-toy from A Nightmare Before Christmas, one of the best movies ever! To make this, I just cut away a rough shape in a block of wood using my band saw, then sculpted it […]
When I started researching this project, I didn’t know that the actual thing most of us call The Stocks or a Stockade is actually a Pillory. Stocks are related, but a little different, usually locking one’s feet in place. But I’m pretty sure most people are more familiar with the general term stocks for all these types […]
I got the inspiration for this art project from the 1932 Bella Lugosi movie, White Zombie. In it, there is a dark and gloomy island castle, most likely a matte painting. I didn’t want to recreate this castle, but rather create a stylized piece that reflected its sense of doom and darkness. My idea was […]
Makers Care 2016 is teaming up with Microjig again this year to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help grant wishes to children facing life-threatening medical conditions. Animal companions are well known to have a therapeutic effect on children (and adults!) who are living with serious and life-threatening medical conditions. We thought this would […]
Wyatt has been asking me to make a kendama for a long time. It’s a fun, cup & ball kind of skill game from Japan. I’ve tried it out on several occasions while in a Japantown store and never had much success getting the ball to land correctly in a cup. It is truly a toy […]
Like most of us, I have a tendency to save scraps of wood that are not very useful for any substantial project. I have found that making decorative art projects is a great way to reduce the size of this horde. This week, I decided to cut a bunch of these scraps into wedge shapes […]
I dusted off my old scroll saw to make this week’s art project, a birthday gift for Wyatt. Undertale is a wildly popular video game right now. So much so, that I played it! And I am hardly what you would call a gamer. I thought it would be fun to make him a scroll sawed wall […]
I’m a real fan of minimalist designs. Strangely, finding simplicity and minimalism can be very challenging. It’s almost as if humans have an instinct to look for complicated solutions even though the simplest ones are almost always more efficient and elegant. Such was the case here. I wanted to create a stand for a bud […]
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