Here is a tool I made as a gift.  Not the hardest puzzle to solve, but a puzzle.

No fair guessing, Skip, you saw the sketches!
My goal here was to make a tool that would appeal to both my love of the simple rustic line and to those who desire bling.  It is made of mesquite, [...]

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I have over the years killed an amazing number of trees.  This is entirely excluding the trees send by  a few companies that make their living by sending people dead trees.  The ration of dead to living has started to change quite a bit in the last few years.  No magic to the difference, simply [...]

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Kari Hultman, has just made a Gnomon over on the Village Carpenter.
Stephen Shepherd has been using them in pictures to show scale for a very long time too. You will have to do some clicking to get there as Stephen’s site does not direct link to entries, but it is probably worth your while.
Gnomon (γνώμων) [...]

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Check out the pushcart my buddy Schtoo made for his daughter’s birthday!
Schtoo is a great woodworker, solid and inovative at once, with a great respect for functionality.  He made the simplest toy for his daughter.  Hardly what you would first think of for a toy but it is perfection itself.  Looking at his daughter’s joy [...]

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Here is a cedar tofu press.  And a cedar flute.

Flutes get soaked in spit, tofu presses get soaked under water.  For either, a stable wood is ideal.  A wood that is not toxic is nice.   A wood that can resist rot and mildew is a real bonus.  Cedar does the job.
Here it is all put [...]

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