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Tramp Art Sewing Box – continued.
I got a chance to work on the new sewing box for another couple hours. I am almost ready to start putting a finish on the box. If you missed the earlier post where I started the box, click here. I had...
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Green tramp art sewing box finished.
Over the past couple of evenings I finished the tramp art sewing box that I have been working on lately. I had pretty much finished the woodworking part in my last post. Now it was time for the finish...
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Building a tramp art and tin church box.
A couple of years ago I built a series of three small cupboards. Each cupboard was based around some salvaged wood drawers that I have used in a number of projects. As it usually happens, two sold...
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Tramp art and tin church cupboard nearly finished.
I finally got a couple of evenings back in the shop to work on this little cupboard again. I got side tracked getting my antique blacksmith forges ready to use now that the weather is good enough to...
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Tramp Art church cupboard finished at last.
In my previous post I talked about how I used tin and wood to make this church influenced tramp art cupboard. At that time I was satisfied with the way the tin accents worked with the tramp art carved...
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Starting another tramp art church cupboard.
I keep coming back to the inspiration provided by the cathedrals and churches we have seen on vacations over the past few years. There is something about the interplay of eternity and decay in the...
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Tramp Art Church update.
The proportions of this cupboard have been puzzling me for some time now. As it sits without any layers of applied wood, it looks kind of odd. I have convinced myself that the finished project that...
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Tramp Art Church Cupboard with Round Top finished.
Yesterday I finished making this tramp art cupboard. I have been working on it for a while now and am glad that it is finally finished. I have a ton of other projects I am itching to get to. I was...
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Pearl, Queen of the Sea.
Looking back over the months I spent periodically working on this piece I think I really just needed to adding something goofy and fun to the world right now. We are being bombarded with so much bad...
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Monkeys on a Weathervane? I call it “King of the Hill”.
For some reason the other day I got to thinking about the old “Barrel full of Monkeys” that we played with as kids. Did you have a set? It was a pretty simple toy, but fun. At the same time I was...
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