Personal woodworking — segmented turning, tables, instruments, and assorted craft pieces built outside of professional engineering work. The portfolio of an engineer who spends evenings and weekends in the shop.
A cross-section of my personal woodworking practice: stave-built drums, wooden flutes, and percussion hardware sharing the same shop vocabulary of segmented construction, turning, jigging, lacing, and finishing.
A catch-all repository for personal woodworking projects that don't have their own dedicated home. For projects that grew big enough to deserve their own repo, see:
ashiko-drum-workshop— 2015 makerspace workshop, 16 stave-built ashiko drumsdjembe— stave-built djembes (Morgan Drums methodology)dundun— West African ensemble bass drumsdidgeridoo— stave-built didgeridoo designflutes— Native American style wooden flutesfujara— Slovak overtone shepherd's flutechessboard-table— segmented chessboard coffee table
This repository covers everything else.
(Forthcoming — one section per project.)
- Segmented woodturning — vessels, vases, and goblet-style turnings using contrast woods in glued-up segmented blanks
- Wooden briefcase — segmented end-grain top (below)
- (other projects to be added)
A wooden briefcase whose lid is built up using a segmented end-grain panel — the same construction technique used for premium end-grain cutting boards, scaled and oriented as a brick-bond pattern. Each end-grain block reveals the tree's growth rings as a target on the surface, and the brick offset gives the panel both visual rhythm and dimensional stability across glue lines.
The shop work documented here was done across several home and community shops over the years. Equipment used includes:
- Bosch 4100 portable contractor table saw
- Wood lathe (community shop)
- Bandsaw, router table, drill press, sanders
Released under CC-BY 4.0 — these are my own personal projects, free to reuse and adapt with credit.
| Section | Status |
|---|---|
| Repo description, license, gitignore | ✓ done |
| Project writeups | forthcoming |
| Hero photo | forthcoming |