Making this mallet is one of the first projects new students complete after drafting exercises, and sharpening and tuning up tools. The blank is laminated fron mahogany and hard maple and then turned on the lathe. Mine is finished with rubbed on oil.

Another tool that we make from scratch in the first simester at NBSS is a marking guage. The hard maple dowel was turned, the fence was hand shaped, and we even made our cutters from old jigsaw blades .

I bought these antique chisels in poor condition with missing handles. Making new handles, flattening the backs of the blades, and sharpening them was an interesting and fun project.

This candlebox is loosely based on traditional New England pipe boxes. It is made cherry and pine with an oil and wax finish.

This pencil box is made of black locust that I harvested and milled and birdseye maple with a sliding black walnut lid. The mitered dovetailed corners were an interesting challenge.