This is cheating but I'm loving my CNC router

Built this table from wood planks out of an very old falling down barn. Thick oak that was hard as a rock. Put some of the old nails back in the holes just for something a little different.

Not cool. Super cool.

Love that redfish!

I posted these back in 2013.. still have one and use a couple times per year.
Wine barrel smoker! (Can’t find the originals, so I apologize for the watermarks)

Couldn’t really pick one!

Very nice! I am jealous of your skill and patience.

Not really cool but i can sell one and buy something cool.

Dang bunch of really cool projects in this thread.

One of my favorite projects because my little guy was showing me how to clamp stuff down.

Got to get those clamps just Right

Well architectural concrete has been my hobby and livelihood for over 35 years. About 12 years ago I ran across a modular concrete planter system out of Italy. Thought it was a great idea ( each 70 lb. section bolts together so you dont have to have a forklift to move it around) Could not find the molds in USA so I designed the master and poured the urthane molds myself. Designed the corner brackets and found a sheet metal company to make a bunch. After that it was just coming up with creative looks.

My next coolest thing was being first in USA to permanently engrave verbiage or photograph in concrete, The black or brown you see is crushed black or brown granite that is the rock for the concrete mix.

And my last cool thing was getting to spend fifteen years furnishing all the stained concrete entrance and neighborhood signs for a BEAUTIFUL north texas community called Lantana Texas.

That is cool....

Thanks

All are great.

I couldn’t decide on the “coolest”, so here’s the first. About 8 years ago, I conned Stevarino into letting me build this for his mini truck. At the time I was working out the garage of our rent house with about zero clue on how to fabricate.






Pretty sure that ladder is crooked as hell

Hey, it served it’s purpose and I really appreciated it!

Built this quail hunting rig many years ago.

Nice! is that on a volkswagaon chassis?

Nope built that from the ground up but did use a modified Type 2 Volkswagen front suspension. It's running a North American Raceco automatic transmission and a V-6 Toyota Supra motor. Power steering, power brakes, will run 90 down the road hauling 12 dogs and 8 hunters. Built that for Cy Wagner of Wagner Brown oil company out of Midland.

That is awesome HWY_MAN!

I don’t know if I have pictures of a 4 poster bed I made for a granddaughter. Octagonal pencil posts. All in Walnut. Really lovely and probably the nicest thing I’ve done. And much of the pencil posts were shaped with my grandpa’s No. 3 size hand plane. I’ll look for a picture.

And here’s a Pouting Chair in Walnut. It’s an old Shaker design, and the original intent was as a stool for old women, and so they wouldn’t have to bend over to pick up the stool. A secondary use turned out to be a chair for small children to sit in ‘time out’.