Rustic Table Lamp (reclaimed wood base and repurposed canning jar lampshade)

Here is another project that I just completed.  To read more about it, or to purchase the lamp, please visit my Etsy shop here.

White Tailed Deer- Beer Tap Handle

Please visit my new site to see more tap handles that I have made, as well information on purchasing one. http://antlertaphandle.blogspot.com/

Here's another project that I just finished.  I've had this antler laying around for a few years, and finally found a use for it.  The wooden base is finished in red oak.  This is currently for sale here.
UPDATE: this tap handle has been sold.  I will be making more, so check my Etsy shop here.
If you have an antler, I'd be glad to make a custom mount for it.  Just send me an email.

Industrial Corkscrew

UPDATE:  This corkscrew was sold on Ebay to a major collector from Romania.  Pretty cool that this will be in a collection 5000 miles away. 
These are still avaliable, made to order, on my Etsy page here.

I neglected to take any pictures while making this, so I'll try to explain the process instead.  On a whim I bought a couple of corkscrew blanks from a seller on Ebay.  Once I got them I wasn't sure what to do with them.  I had some diamond pattern tubing laying around, so I decided to use that as a handle.  The end caps are washers, held together with bolts and a coupling nut in the middle.  All of the nuts were "welded" together with JB Weld.  These are for sale on Etsy and Ebay.  Check my "For Sale" page for links.

Vacuum forming table progress

Over the weekend, I built the box for my vacuum forming table.  The frame is left over 2x4s, and the bottom is 1/4in MDF.  All of the seems were caulked to prevent leakage.  The top is a heavy duty cookie sheet with holes drilled every inch.  I used a 1-1/2 inch threaded pvc fitting screwed into the MDF, and then caulked all around it.  I still have to add some legs, build a frame for the plastic sheets, and add some guide boards to ensure that things are lined up correctly during use.  The vacuum table will be powered by a Rigid 2.5hp shop vac.  I tested the system today, and it appears to work well.

Router table, Vacuum table

My wife and I had our second daughter born a few weeks ago, so I've been home on paternity leave.  Mostly I've just been helping out with the kids, but I have worked on several things around the house, as well as a few new projects of my own.   Here are a few pics.

Above is a DIY Dremel (not really a Dremel, but a Black and Decker) router table that I built.  I use a piece of pine and two clamps as my fence.

This is the top portion of what is to be my new vacuum forming table.  Note the baby monitor in the upper left.