Marietta Wood Works
Category: Joint Projects
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Jess Farm Table
When my nephew Ryan and his wife Makayla bought their farmhouse in western Michigan, a maple tree over three feet in diameter was literally pressing against the back wall of their new home. Soon, they had the old tree felled and hired a crew to mill it into thick slabs and dry them in a…
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Alaya Boat Windows
One of the major projects that Lucas and Emily have undertaken in the restoration of their sailboat, the Alaya, is replacing all of the windows. The challenge was coming up with an efficient way to accurately duplicate the original, hand-fit windows in 1/2″ polycarbonate. With hands on experience and a lot of brainstorming, our process…
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Nevis’s Murphy Desk
Nevis, one of our young neighborhood friends, asked me if I would help him build a Murphy Desk to hang on the wall in his room. Of course, I said yes immediately. Doing joint projects in the workshop is one of my favorite things to do, and passing along a bit of passion and knowledge…
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Representation of Jesus’s Empty Tomb
Linda and I designed and built a representation of Jesus’s Empty Tomb for the Face to Face with the Easter Story program at the Dexter United Methodist Church, presented on March 27th, 2021 and attended by over 350 people. After designing a 3D representation that could be folded flat for easy storage, we headed to…
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Kyle Makes a Pen and Pencil Set
“I played it cool today, as my dad heart was bursting with happiness! #fathersonworkshopproject” is how I described this day in my workshop on social media recently. I love doing a joint project with a young person and hopefully passing along a little knowledge and some passion for working with wood. When that young person…
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Classic Workbench
This is a joint project with my friend, James. We are building a riff on the famous Plate 11 workbench from Roubo’s “The Art of the Joinery,” along with coordinating mobile stands for James’s chop and bench saws.