I’m a new subscriber and received both of mine, too. Absolutely stunning, @KeybillyJefe
Thank you! 
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I’m working on one of those for my nephew’s wedding. Very cool!
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The wood really is the star of the show. I didn’t do much besides sand and finish.
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That’s the beauty of it. Mine is from a crotch section of that walnut tree that fell last summer. Not ready for prime time yet, but i think it will turn out really nicely.
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Pretty!
I recently dug out this big slab of live-edge cherry wood that I salvaged from somewhere ages ago and have moved with multiple times. I think it’s almost ready to be turned into something more polished. The wheels are turning.
And I have this small board of the prettiest birds-eye maple that I’ve never yet felt worthy of, so there it waits. Maybe I ought to just sand and oil it and hang it on the wall like the art it is…
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Cam from Blacktail Studio does that with some of the “tabletops” he makes.
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Even in the picture it looks silky. I bet it is more stunning IRL
Do it! It would be beautiful and if you do ever decide to make something particular from it, you still can
There was this beautiful piece of live-edge wood at the wood working specialty store we stopped at out of curiosity. Walnut, IIRC. My husband would like to work wood but we don’t have the space for the tools or the disposable income for tools. We had almost no disposable income at the time
I wanted it so much. It had this amazing contoured edge. If I had $200 to spare, I would have gotten it, sanded and oiled it, and hung it. Or more likely leaned it. It was huge.
You should take your beautiful wood out and give it some love as soon as you have the chance and hang it up!
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Crotch-based home accessories? I think you’re onto something there.
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This. I have a huge garage and still have very little room for tools. This summer I booted my power tools out to a covered area of my yard to give myself space and easier clean up.
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I’ve decided to up my game making feet for serving trays and charcuterie boards. @Docosc, you said you had a charcuterie board project in the works, right? I’m repurposing wine corks. I found an easy way to use my existing mini-bench to make getting consistent, square cork “cookies” from them.
These are four 1/4” thick cork cookies. You can make them whatever thickness.
My mini-bench has 20 mm (~3/4”) dog holes in it for clamping stock to the bench. I found some corks that were 20 mm (most were a little bigger, between 21 and 23 mm. Those won’t work for this unless ypu want to make a dedicated jig for this.
I push the cork into the dog hole. You want it to be a tight fit. If it’s loose this won’t work well. For 1/4” thick cookies, I use a 5/16” setup block next to the cork and settle the top of the cork at the same height above the bench as the setup block. I find feel works better than vision for this.
I use my smallest flush trim saw to cut off the part of the cork that sits above the table. I start the cut all around the perimeter of the cork first to avoid tearout and then cut from one side to the other. It’s important to brush or blow away debris from the work area regulalry between or even during a cut, since the cork doesn’t produce dust but rather turds that can throw off your cut if they get caught under the saw.
The cut surface of the cork is rough. I sand it down with some old 80 or 100 grit sandpaper while checking it against a 1/4” setup block for thickness. If it’s uneven, I sand more on the thicker side.
In those previous two photos, you can see the remainder of the cork in the doghole. It sits very slightly above bench level. Before pushing it up through the dog hole to set up the next “cookie,” I sand it with a random orbital right where it is. That quickly smooths and levels that surface for the next cut. But don’t do what I did. These little cork cookies are very light, and the breeze of the fan of the random orbital will blow them all over the place - and once they land, they like to roll to the most difficult-to-reach part of the shop!
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That’s a great idea. I have a bunch of used corks waiting for reuse in something. I will have to test them against my dog holes.
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Neat ideas for reusing wine corks.
And the Cork Turds is a great name for a rock band.
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I’m 99.9% certain there’s already an Irish folk punk band by that name. If not, there needs to be.
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I was doing a file-cabinet purge and found this bad idea in my Burning Man file:
There’s so much that could go wrong here.
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But there’s so much that could have gone right!
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Why the Y-fronts?
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(I think that’s a suspension harness.)
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I almost finished my “from scratch” laser engraver. Has a homemade ESP32 based controller, a lot of custom 3d printed parts as well as a generic Y gantry.
Now I need to finish making the cables, which is the part I hate the most 
And once is done, I will be able to restart doing experiments with it.
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It’s a rock-climbing-style harness. No y-fronts. Since this is a Burning Man activity, the rider (victim) would probably be naked, but I didn’t draw that detail.
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