Jewelery is like furniture, just smaller

Thought I'd try my hand making a crystal-shaped pendant for a Christmas present. Reclaimed wood, aniline dye, and water-based satin clear-coat.

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

I've created my first Most Useless Machine!!!

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Needed to add the latch on because it was a little cramped inside there and the wires kept pushing up the switch side. I also unexpectedly had to re-wire the servo motor, and I haven't soldered anything for the better part of a decade, so I was a little surprised it worked. The mahogany aniline dye with satin clear coat really made the Dollar Store wooden box look nice as well. Here it is in action (if you haven't seen one before, a Most Useless Machine does nothing other than turn itself off):

Organization!

New  lumber storage rack completed! Goodbye massive pile on the floor.

I made it a girlfriend

Finished the first corresponding joint!

This is them doing it:

Just like lego

Finished the first half of the first joint of the armoire frame (front top left to be exact). This will fit into the yet-to-be-made cut out section of the front cross beam, a mortise will then go through the intersection of the two so that a tenon from the vertical corner post will lock them together.
So far so good.

It has begun!

I've finally started on the armoire I've been planning for much too long. I've got a pretty good idea of how it will fit together using japanese-inspired joiney. I'm using old 2x4s salvaged from houses under renovation. My estimate is that the beams are around 80 - 100 yrs old, based on the nails that were in them and the houses they came out of. Right now I'm still in the process of planing them smooth. Turning them from:

Into:

New TV Stand

I recently finished building a TV stand out of 1x4s from dismantled shipping pallets and other scrap wood. It's been left as bare wood for now. Might get around to finishing it with clearcoat or tung oil later on.
For the shelves and side panels, I used hand planes to tongue and groove the boards and glued them together. Those glued panels were then assembled using mortise and tenon and dovetail joints and no glue or nails. It's a little rough around the edges, but the joinery worked well enough that it's solid, which was the main thing I wanted to accomplish on this project.