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Life gets much easier when you have an ample supply of hooks or pegs to hang things on. Check out this easy hat rack project to get your organizing started! 

Turn the tables on a small shop with this space saver.

Show off your collectibles in high style.

Simple elegance from a bent plywood panel

Easy to build and store

For everyday use or to give as a gift

Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint Color Recipes!  Mix It Up!

Compact but capable, this bench has a base built from framing lumber, an excellent (and affordable) tail vise, and a sturdy knock-down design.

If magically catching bottle caps makes ’em smile, make ’em laugh with a clever laser-engraved label. I hooked up with Epilog Laser to gin up labels for bottles made of walnut, cherry, and African mahogany.

Relief carving, otherwise characterized as carving pictures in wood, can be both relaxing and rewarding, yielding some of the most extravagant and beautiful portraits, even for a first time carver.  With a little investigation, planning, time, patience and some sharp pfeil carving tools, you can be on your way to creating works of art that will impress not only yourself, but everyone else too! In this first part Green Man carving blog, we’ll take you through the first 4 of 8 stages in relief carving.