Mahogany bird design door wedge

I was given some mahogany a while back!

After seeing lots of different bird designs I thought I'd make a door wedge, or door stopper.

I drew the bird free hand on card until I was happy then tagged it to the mahogany.

I cut it out with a jigsaw, then hand sanded it lightly.

Just coat of Danish oil, then another, very light sand and buff and it was done.

Sun lounger DIY from old bed.

I came across an old pine bed!
All nice, clean, finished, timber.
Id seen people making sun loungers, the summers almost here, so I thought I'd have a go.

It took half a day, I'll not go through all the steps.

It's comfy!!!!

Wooden cottage scene

After seeing these kind of things on Pinterest I had to try it.

With old pallet wood and driftwood and a few panel pins and started on making a version of my own.
Without a plan I just started.

A branch from a tree is recently trimmed made a nice minster tree.
Old 2x4 made the cottage, a slice of driftwood ply was the roof.
Pallet wood for the base.
After a while cutting wood for his n pieces I was left with tiny leftovers that would normally be spot up, but when making stuff like this, these then come in handy for all kind of things like, steps, boats, birdhouses.
Panel pins and a bit of old site for the fence and ladder.

Didn't take to long and kept me out in the garden for a while so I'm happy with it..

Old timber flooring transformed into a clock

Driving home I spotted some ex display flooring up against the wall outside a flooring centre. Obviously these were destined for the skip.  I can't resist having a look at free timber! So I pulled over and noticed some solid OAK flooring made up into a square that must have been on display in the shop in the past and was now just thrown away!!!

I got it home (even though my son was telling me to stop picking up rubbish as he called it... Oak...? Rubbish...? He'll learn one day.

I had the workings of a clock at home that I had bought on eBay, so I decided I'd make a clock with it, as I'd made one a few weeks earlier out of pallet wood that wasn't all that pretty....

I had to prepare the timber by seperating it, removing the blobs of white silicone that had been keeping them tighter with a scraper, then I needed to remove the dark Oak stain and varnish as it was high quality flooring, so it had a good quality hard wearing finish on it.

A few cuts on my table saw in the garden, to get two pieces, one for the base and another for the face, cut at 15 degrees then joined just with glue, then quite a while sanding got a lovely finish on the oak. It was originally a very dark brown from the finish it had as flooring, but now it was a really nice light colour, and beautifully smooth. I drilled the center hole and counter sank it to fit the clock workings and finished it with a light covering is Danish oil.

The entire cost was £2.00 for the clock mechanism.

I'm pleased with it.