Lumber Rack for Hauling Wood in SUV, Truck, or Car
See a quick and easy to make a lumber rack for hauling wood in your vehicle.
It keeps the boards from damaging your rubber seals and from sliding around.
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Turning a Garage into a Money Making Woodworking Shop
I finally have a place to build a real woodworking shop for my new wood decor art creations. I’m starting from the floor up, literally, to turn a garage into a shop for building everything from the work benches to new wood art decor, plus recording how-to videos and tool reviews as I go.
I hope you’ll come along on this journey with me. You’ll pick up some nice money-saving tips and cool tool and gear ideas along the way too.
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Welcome to the New Heartwood Art Creations
I’m rebranding Heartwood Art and taking it in a whole new direction.
I hope you’ll follow me on this journey of turning a hobby, and its website, into a real woodworking business venture, and a whole lot of fun along the way.
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The Seaweed Tree Carving is Finished
I’m thrilled with the way this carving project turned out. It was fun to do, but even more fun to figure out how to do it. I took my inspiration directly from nature and it shows. It’s a wild thing and I love it – the way the branches and shadows intermingle and the way the stacked layers give it a 3D look.
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Making Your Own Spacers is Tough – Seaweed Trees
I have my wall hanger, dowel rod, and a plan. I’m all set to make my own spacers to mount both layers of the Seaweed Tree carving for max shadows. I discovered really fast just how hard it is to make wooden spacers from a dowel rod, and eventually ended up switching to plan B. Maybe this post will save you from the same trial and error, or maybe you can tell me a better way to do it. Or maybe misery loves company and you’ll tell me you’ve been down the same road too.
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Unique Mounting – Seaweed Trees
Figuring out how to hang this carving was half the fun of doing the project. But, I didn’t count on the plywood being this fragile. So, I had the joy of coming up with a modified solution, with a little help from my favorite framer.
