Any Woodworking Ideas?

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Well, right now in woodshop I'm sorta in limbo. My interests are in welding, and the school abandoned its metal shop years ago. I've finished all the projects ( pretty easy: piggy bank, picture frame, gumball machine) and now can just build my own projects. I'm draling a blank At the moment. Do you guys have any ideas for what to make?-AlexSears/Craftsman 230A Buzzy BoxSears/Craftsman 180A Buzzy BoxChicago Electric 80A InverterALL STICK...ALL THE TIME!I spent a lot of time with the square peg and round hole.
Reply:Electric Guitar, Butcherblock, Chess board, skateboard, Inlayed this or that. These are just what came out of the wood shop next to the welding shop in my highschool.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:You might consider a small cabinet with some sliding drawers for such things as measuring tools like micrometers, calipers and thread gauges. Before the Kennedy-style steel units, tool boxes were nearly all produced out of wood and many were themselves works of art.
Reply:How about a bedside table with drawer for your room? Or maybe a coffee table for the living room. An Adirondack chair for the front porch or yard. A one time use Bar-Be-Que grill. On the other hand, a BBQ grill in wood, would let you determine dimensions and material needs for when you get a chance to build one with steel later. This would be in keeping with your interest in welding, to figure out angles and sizes and where everything needs to go. Just design one where all the surfaces are flat and doesn't use pipe or a round tank as the basis. Then when the time was right to build one for real in steel you would have everything else already figured out and could just start cutting and welding. The brain work you would already have done. Just don't build a test fire in the wooden one, at least not till after the steel one was built. Then when you start the welding part and someone asks what are you making, you can point to the wooden mock up and say I'm building that for real this time.
Reply:I like the butch block idea, make a top for a table or workbench butcher-block style, and then use your interest in metal working to make a simple frame for it.  Might as well make something you can use.....
Reply:Actually the cabinet idea gave me an idea. I could make a small case for my calipers.  That'll take about 2 weeks (40 min per day), so I'll still have a lot of time left over.-AlexSears/Craftsman 230A Buzzy BoxSears/Craftsman 180A Buzzy BoxChicago Electric 80A InverterALL STICK...ALL THE TIME!I spent a lot of time with the square peg and round hole.
Reply:Build the ukulele its quick and a good intro to Luthier's work. The size of a guitar makes the work considerably more difficult. http://www.grellier.fr/plans.php?lang=fr#!prettyPhoto[slide]/1/here is one done in ash and ebony Last edited by nikodell; 02-14-2012 at 02:47 PM.
Reply:One kid in our wood shop class built a wooden recurve bow and another built a crossbow. I doubt they'd let you do that today however. You might be able to carve out a custom stock possibly.Furniture of some sort is always a good project. Bookshelves are always useful. I have a very nice glass doored bookshelf I had to build for one class. While these tables have cast steel legs I welded up, the tops are wood with inset tile. You can make something like this and set it up so later you can easily replace the wood legs with something else.Work shop stuff is always nice. Someone already suggested a tool box. Work bench with built in "woodworkers" vise, some sort of wall locker or wall or base cabinets (Monica's drawer base comes to mind).  I have a very nice well designed pair of roller stands I inherited from a friend who used to be big into wood working.How about a nice shed? Build it to be knock down and reassemble it at home. You pay good money for the "kits" at Depot or Lowes.Also keep in mind wood makes an inexpensive, easy to build material for jigs and fixtures. I can often bang out a jig in plywood to do a job much faster and cheaper than I can in steel for a small job.The skills you learn doing wood working will also help you with metal fab. You still need to , cut, drill, sand, turn ( if you have access to a lathe), mill ( use a router rather than a mill), paint... Then there's measuring, planning, purchasing, fitting, assembly... all pretty much the same regardless what material it is. Attached Images.No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
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Reply:Originally Posted by DSWOne kid in our wood shop class built a wooden recurve bow and another built a crossbow. I doubt they'd let you do that today however. You might be able to carve out a custom stock possibly.Furniture of some sort is always a good project. Bookshelves are always useful. I have a very nice glass doored bookshelf I had to build for one class. While these tables have cast steel legs I welded up, the tops are wood with inset tile. You can make something like this and set it up so later you can easily replace the wood legs with something else.Work shop stuff is always nice. Someone already suggested a tool box. Work bench with built in "woodworkers" vise, some sort of wall locker or wall or base cabinets (Monica's drawer base comes to mind).  I have a very nice well designed pair of roller stands I inherited from a friend who used to be big into wood working.How about a nice shed? Build it to be knock down and reassemble it at home. You pay good money for the "kits" at Depot or Lowes.Also keep in mind wood makes an inexpensive, easy to build material for jigs and fixtures. I can often bang out a jig in plywood to do a job much faster and cheaper than I can in steel for a small job.The skills you learn doing wood working will also help you with metal fab. You still need to , cut, drill, sand, turn ( if you have access to a lathe), mill ( use a router rather than a mill), paint... Then there's measuring, planning, purchasing, fitting, assembly... all pretty much the same regardless what material it is.
Reply:That's a nice one. I did a bunch of premade trusses for a replacement roof on a shed at the Jersey shore this summer that was fairly similar, but with a simpler roof style to match the house. I precut and assembled as much stuff at my shop as possible to save time at the shore. I may be doing a roof similar to that in the spring for a shed, depending on what the customer wants. Attached Images.No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan