Miscellaneous Woodwork
Various things I've made of wood.Shelves
I am in a constant battle with Stuff. Detritus. Kipple, even. Call it what you will, but I often find myself building shelves in an attempt to create order in the chaos. This is one of the more substantial examples.
This picture was taken just before I loaded it up completely with various gubbins, but I figured this would better show the shelf than how it looks now!
The uprights are made of cheapo 2x3s (I dug through the pile at the store for the straightest ones I could find... still not quite straight) and the shelves themselves are just plywood with the corners notched such that they sit on the "rungs" of the uprights. The white paint makes them look nicer than they really are, but they're quite sturdy and certainly do the job.
This system is also technically modular by simply adding more identical uprights... and was in fact one bay wider than pictured at my previous apartment where I had a longer wall.
Octagon Stool
Built at a summer camp in the 20-teens. Being stright-legged, it's not the most stable, but makes a fine plant stand or small side table.
Hammond Speaker Amp
A while ago, someone left a Hammond S6 out in a trash heap to rot. By the time I found it, all the tubes were missing and the body was disintegrating. My first instinct with trashed instruments is always to save them, but at the time I had neither the time to work on it, nor the space to store it until I did, so I made the call to take it apart instead.
All this is to say, I had the speakers from this organ sitting around, with nebulous plans of building them into something, until my mother offhandedly mentioned that she needed and amp for her keyboard. Well, I have the parts, I thought, this is my excuse!
It actually took a few years of on and off work, but at last I completed what is probably my finest woodworking to date. Both the birch plywood sides and the cherry trim on the front were leftovers from other people's projects, and even the amplifier board inside was salvaged from a project from college. It was therefore a pleasant surprise that the happenstantial geometry dictated by the size of the speakers and the scraps I found led to favorable accoustics! That is to say, my mom's keyboard sounds better through this amp than either its internal speakers or the other amp she tried.
Pot Rack
This is by no means even remotely fine work, but darned if it doesn't free up a bunch of space in our kitchen.