Two Bit Woodworker

More of a shop project (technically a basement project) but it's wood so I decided to post it up anyway. I've been looking for a bin organizer for awhile but I haven't been able to find one (even used) that was at a price I was willing to pay. I stumbled across these steel panels for the bins that were pretty cheap though, and thought I could build a stand for them with the pine 2x4s that have been sitting in my basement since we moved. This is the result. The back is held together with half-laps, with the crosspieces positioned so had enough wood to drill in to on each panel. I left the vertical pieces long at the bottom to act as tenons and to give me a place to put addition levelers. Pine Bin Organizer Back The base it constructed with some big ol' box joints, as well as half-lapped stabilizers and through tenon middle supports for the back. Pine Bin Organizer Base I made these on the table saw using a big box joint jig. F

His birthday has come and gone so it's safe to say that this was a birthday present for my BiL now. After sanding it up I finished it with my usual method: boiled linseed oil, danish oil, wipe-on polyurethane.

A friend asked me to flatten some wide pine boards that were from a basement door of her childhood home. The plan was to take the cup out of them and clean them up so they could be made into signs for her wedding. I ended up with one extra that she said to keep, but I ended up making this and giving it back to her. Weathered Pine Tray I got the idea from the New Yankee Workshop's serving trays episode, finding a compound angle calculator online to tell me how to set up the table saw and miter gauge. Once it was glued up, I put some cherry splines in to reinforce the miters. Weathered Pine Tray The hole in the side is from a doorknob, I assume. I tried to leave the rest of the flaws alone and put some of the aging back into it after the milling cleaned it up too much. I used an iron buff solution (steel wool pad and apple cider vinegar) and after one coat it darkened up like crazy. After that I just hit it with a few coats of danish oil and