This Oriental style stand looks just as good displaying your favourite indoor plant as it does a more traditional bonsai.
Gifts / Crafts
Canadian Woodworking Gift & Craft articles showcase small projects, creative ideas, seasonal inspiration, and practical tips for making thoughtful handmade gifts.
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This handy knife block keeps your knives organized, sharp and at hand.
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Our youngest daughter married last year and moved halfway across the province. As a father and a woodworker, I wanted to build the newlyweds a special gift that would remind them of us.
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While canes (or walking sticks) aren’t as trendy or as prevalent as they once were, the dapper woodworker can still be the envy of the neighborhood with this unique and stylish ‘cane saw’.
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Here is an easy to build and smart looking unit. It will store all those messy game boxes lying around the living room, stuffed into various drawers, or scattered on bookshelves.
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Sharpen your carving skills with this fun, little project.
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Regardless of what the computer manufacturers say, handwriting is far from being a lost art.
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This simple to build wine rack will store up to eight one-litre bottles of wine.
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I designed this cherry box with an ebony inlay for a beginner’s woodworking class that I teach. It is pleasing in proportion, colour and shape, and satisfying to build.
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Get a step up on things with this handy little kitchen or shop accessory.
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This Shaker wall clock is based on a series of clocks that Isaac Newton Young started in the spring of 1840.
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Arts & Crafts hat and coat shelf
This hat and coat shelf has clean lines and ample storage. It is equally at home in a formal entry, or a back door.
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If the thought of going fishing brings to mind rooting around your basement or garage, untangling your hooks and lines, then this fishing rod stand might be just the lure that you need to get your fishing equipment organized.
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Here's a chance to try something a little different. No square stock, no crisply executed joinery and, although there is a lot of gluing up of material, you don’t need a rack of expensive clamps.
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A finely handmade gift is itself a statement, saying as much about the maker as it does about the receiver.
