In keeping with tradition, here are a selection of photos of things I made as Christmas presents this year, starting with the ornaments… Next, the ‘usual’ collection of gifts… For Kerry, I made a large, shallow bowl I’ve been wanting to make for some time. I had to wait until … Continue reading
Category Archives: Gifts
Man! What a party!
For my birthday Kerry treated me to a trip to Pinehurst where we were going to play golf and stay at the Holly Inn overnight. Well, unfortunately it actually snowed that evening so we didn’t get to play golf, but did have a lovely time at the Inn. Little did … Continue reading
Retirement gift for National Park Superintendent, Kate Cannon
A very good friend of mine, who has a very close association with Canyonlands National Park, realized, after seeing that I had a CNC Plasma cutter, that we could make a nice gift for the current Park Superintendent, Kate Cannon, who is retiring next week. My friend suggested that a … Continue reading
Birthday present for brother-in-law
With my brother-in-law celebrating his 50th birthday this year, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to: 1. Yank his chain a little, 2. Use my new toy! So, a popular item in plasma cutting ‘circles’ is what’s called an ‘F-Bomb’. Now without going into the derivation of this name, the … Continue reading
Christmas 2019
Won’t spend a lot of time here today, but here’s a sampling of this year’s Christmas presents that I’ve made: Outtakes The secret to doing decent woodworking is to learn how to correct your mistakes. In the process of making some of these gifts, I made some doozies! I thought … Continue reading