What can I make?

I found this cool piece of driftwood on a trip with my brother. I want to turn it into something cool and gift it to him for Christmas. He’s not very sentimental, so if I don’t make him something useful, he will probably throw it away. Any ideas? It’s about 18x6x1. I have no idea what kind of wood. Cedar?

Have a bunch of these woodworking books wondering how much they’d be worth?

Hey all sorry if this isnt the right place to post this I’m happy to delete if not. Just wondering what the value of this set of books would be if anyone knows. Thank you!

I have no woodworking experience so I decided to make a spoon

Could’ve come out worse

My Harbor Freight planer belt turns out to be, well, a bracelet

Jet jtas 10-1 back trunnion this devastating should I weld or dump 300$ for a new one

This bird emerged from the piece of 2x4 (plus a few other bits).

How to removed botched wood filler?

I have a door frame that has some paint chipped out and I thought I would put some wood filler on it before painting. The problem is I didn’t realize this wood filler is a 2 part as the hardening agent wasn’t put away with the other part/lost… Anyways, any tips on removing this so I can apply a less involved wood filler?

Natures fire…no match needed. Cuban Mahogany/ Island panel. WIP

What to use this old basketball floor for?? Have a few ideas but need more!! Also have a lot more I could pick up!!!

Thinking about some kind of work bench/table/small tables and a shuffle board setup, original idea was to use it for one of the kids bedroom for a new floor but looking at the logistics of it all it may not be possible 😪. A cool idea was to have a piece made into a memorabilia sports card for my second oldest kid as this is the first floor he played organized basketball on also. All ideas are welcomed!!!!

Outdoor wooden stools - how to keep from checking.

I built a series of stools from some ash rounds for around my fire pit. All of my experiments (the stool samples if you will) checked pretty badly even though the logs were quite dry when I cut them - they had been dead standing for about a year, and then I slowly let them dry further in my shop. I have a couple more ash trees to take down and wanted to make a few more this fall. I’m pretty sure I’ll need to soak them in a wood stabilizer. I’ve had success with pentacryl on some other projects (small coasters made from 4” logs) but I realize i’d need a couple of gallons to soak a few of these stool tops - they are 2” thick and about 12” in diameter. Any advice on what I should treat them with? Also should I plane them to their finished thickness first? When using pentacry or PEG is there a recommended finish (I had used an exterior urethane on these samples, but when they checked moisture got under the finish…)

Chopsticks!

Made some handmade chopsticks for my girlfriend tonight! I used a jig with a block plane!