Wooden Bench 1
This bench was my first project during the first quarantine of the COVID-19 pandemic. I built this bench from the trunks and branches of small pine trees that had been taken down around my family’s yard and a piece of wood in my garage. I then covered the top in the black yoga mat material you see on the right to make this bench more comfortable to use for weight lifting and other exercises.
Angled view of the bench
Front view of the bench
Angled view of the bench after padding was added
Hand Made Pens
These pens were created from small blocks of wood and small pen pieces that came in kits. Each wooden piece of the pens were hand carved on a small lathe and treated afterwards for protection. I made these pens mostly as gifts for family members during my senior year of high school.
Rustic Wooden American Flag
This was another high school project of mine. I used the table saw to cut 13 wooden strips of equal length and width. painted on the red strips and blue area in the top left. After that, I attached all the pieces in a staggered fashion to make the flag look more rustic. Next, I traced out the 50 stars with a pencil and then carved all of them out by hand with a Dremel rotary tool. Finally, I used a blow torch to lightly burn the surface as another effect to make the flag look more rustic and interesting.
Wooden Bench 2
This second bench was made in my backyard in New Orleans during my senior year of my undergraduate degree at Tulane University. This bench was built out of 2x4’s, 4x4’s, and one 2x6 piece of wood that I purchased. The top was covered with spare pieces of a workout/play mat that I had left over from my Grand Challenges in Biomedical Engineering project. The padding was put on top to make this bench more comfortable to use for weight lifting and sitting. This bench certainly isnt my finest or most beautiful work, but it was safe and served the purpose I built it for.
Wave Design
This was a personal design I made by taking a vector image of a wave and extended it into a few different states of crashing. After that, I laser cut all of them and arranged them together, and attached them. This was the first version of this product and has been improved upon but not yet completed. For the final product, which will hopefully be done one day soon, I will make the crash of the wave smoother and paint the entire thing with shades of blue.
Mountain Carvey
This piece of woodwork was a personal design. I used a machine called Carvey that is able to carve 2D images at certain depths of carve out 3D images from a computer using different drill bits. The Carvey I used was a tool in the Tulane MakerSpace and a mentor of mine, Dr. Schuler taught me how to use it. For this design, I hand traced images of overlapping mountains in a vector image editing software called Inkscape. After the very long process of tracing out all of these mountains without overlap, I set each one to a different depth in the Carvery Software and let Carvey do its carving. As you can see in the middle image, the Carvey was unable to completely finish my design. The issue I ran into was that the drill bit that the Carvey was using was not long enough to drill the deepest depth without running into the side of the design. So as you can see the very back and deepest layer was only half carved out.
WK Carved Design
This is a design involving my initials. I created this piece by putting MDF into the Carvey in the Tulane MakerSpace. The drill bit I used was a bit too big to make the stars on the bottom of the design have sharp corners.
Wooden Ladder
I made this ladder to give my neighbors and me access to the roof of our garage which was a nice spot to sit in the sun. I built this ladder out of 2x4’s and reinforced it with steel angles on either side as you can see on the picture on the right. The Ladder was about 10 feet tall and was quite stable.
