Thread: Hot Rod Capenters

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Brian's thread got me to thinkin'. There's a guy down the street from me that use to race a camaro. As he got older he gave it up and got into carpentry. Mostly cabinetry & furniture. I was just wondering how many on this site also to some carpentry in addition to hot rodding?
I do a little, I'll post when I can scrape a few pics. together.

Sumbudie' please put a "R" in my caRpenters header.

Unfortunatly that`s what i do for a living, so im not really in to it as a hobby.

I do some carpentry from time to time.. built a couple sheds too

Don't really know much about carpentry, but I have been playing around for years making furniture. Got started by building a shooting box for my Buffalo Guns and one thing lead to another.

RS

me and wood do not get along .i would like it better if i could weld it nice stuff hombre 259

I play with wooden blocks sometimes.....does that count????? My Dad was a very good carpenter, had his own company for 50 years....Fired me when I was 16, told me I should consider a different line of work.....

Paid for most of college, working as a carpenter during my summers off. Took up wood working to do something with my hands while taking all those science courses. Built my wife a pencil post bed as my first wood working project. It paid off when we built the addition to our house a few years ago. Worked as a crew member on it 5 days a week for nine months. Woods more forgiving than steel. Wish I had half the tallent I have building stuff out of wood when it comes to building any metal stuff!

I've been known to swing a hammer at a nail from time to time; actually, I do more woodsmithing than I do metalsmithing. I am equally adept at picking up a wrench and a bolt, or a hammer and some nails, and my tool inventory includes more woodworking power tools than exclusively metal related.

There's some cool stuff posted already. Got any more out there?
Here's a Hope Chest I built for my daughter a few years ago.

Inlaid walnut in oak before finishing

That's some beautifull work!

Nice work!!!

I also do carpentry for a living. It's somewhat like cabinet work, just not as creative. I can definately appreciate a good piece of work, but like you said hotroddaddy, its hard to make a hobby out of woodwork when you do it 50-60 hours a week.

i did cabinet work when i was younger till i nearly lost my fingers to a dado blade .. now me and things that cut go opposite ways..

This is an addition I put on our house about 10 years ago. I started on it in the spring & just got it closed up before the snow hit. Actually got an early snow on the roof before I had the shingling done. That's working nights & weekends. That was a long summer.





This was landscaping later