Misti Handmade

Misti Handmade kimberly w. — trumansburg NY
♦ carpentry, woodworking, sculpture, homesteading ♦

Picnic table club! I’ve been sharing some basic carpentry skills with friends in Tburg through building tables for each ...
08/11/2023

Picnic table club! I’ve been sharing some basic carpentry skills with friends in Tburg through building tables for each of our houses. We sourced the hemlock boards from Collins Sawmill, 20 miles south of us in Cayuta.

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08/10/2023

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Black locust room divider brackets and removable oak rod 🔸 designed as a simple partition to divide the house into two h...
08/09/2023

Black locust room divider brackets and removable oak rod 🔸 designed as a simple partition to divide the house into two halves so one can be used as a guest suite for visiting artists and friends/family.

This partition is also nice for visually walling off part of the house when trying to work or focus. I’d like to explore simple partitions more - to create dual use spaces in small-ish houses like this one and allow for moments of enclosure and privacy in the ever popular open floor plan.

The black locust grain pattern showed up beautifully here - it's stained to color match the house’s existing trim.

custom outdoor kitchen sink cabinet & countertop for the Groundswell Center Incubator Farm 🔸 designed around the farm’s...
08/08/2023

custom outdoor kitchen sink cabinet & countertop for the Groundswell Center Incubator Farm 🔸 designed around the farm’s cast iron double sink, with open storage below for farmer lunches 🔸 built from locally-milled black locust, a naturally rot-resistant and food safe wood species (pressure treated lumber is toxic!)

this is the first standalone furniture piece i designed and built, about a year and a half ago. i had no idea what i was doing or how long any of it would take! the top half of the cabinet is mortise and through-tenon joinery and the bottom is joined with screws because i was tired and running late on the project...happy to say it doesn't haunt me at night.

Thanks Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming for the fun project!

I designed this door with epoxied half lap joints reinforced with carriage bolts. And opted to avoid the mortise and ten...
07/22/2023

I designed this door with epoxied half lap joints reinforced with carriage bolts. And opted to avoid the mortise and tenons typical of this door panel style.

🔸 I was building with pine to keep costs low and for low weight on the spring-tensioned rolling system
🔸 with soft pine, thin mortise and tenons didn't seem like the right choice in a huge panel (and they failed on the last door)
🔸 project complexity was already super high! half laps are strong AND beautifully simple

hope everyone enjoys the weekend and gets some sunshine and gorge time 🧡
07/21/2023

hope everyone enjoys the weekend and gets some sunshine and gorge time 🧡

before and after 17 days of student building at 🧡 Next up in the tiny house build series is Interior Trim and Finish Ca...
07/21/2023

before and after 17 days of student building at 🧡

Next up in the tiny house build series is Interior Trim and Finish Carpentry August 14-18! Then roofing and cabinetry in the fall.

And when she’s finished this tiny one will be driven to North Carolina where the client will enjoy her as a home or rental.



solid white cedar and pine sectional garage door🔸 half lap joinery and inset glass windows 🔸 natural pine tar finishLast...
07/20/2023

solid white cedar and pine sectional garage door🔸 half lap joinery and inset glass windows 🔸 natural pine tar finish

Last summer our decrepit garage door broke into pieces* so I decided to design and build a replacement. New doors were flimsy or out of our budget, I wanted the excuse to take on a big project, and I was intrigued by the fact that I wasn't able to find ANY good online resources on how to build one.

I also had the idea to show Chris (and myself) how my craftmanship could elevate the garage's beauty. My thought: "if I build a beautiful door, then we'll have to build a second one, too, then we might as well replace the siding at that point, which would look great with a timber frame eyebrow roof over the doors," etc. etc. until I have the hand-built workshop of my dreams.

This door build took EXPONENTIALLY longer than anticipated (I thought I'd finish in a weekend, lol) but taught me so much! It was one of my first projects where real precision was needed (as in, a 1/32" discrepancy is visible in the final product, or might prevent the door from coming together). Also my first time doing a BIG glue-up: each door section had 36 individual pieces.

The design and build process was a good lesson in how complex a group of seemingly simple parts can become as the number of parts and interfaces increases. Chris and I put in at least 60 hours of work on the project, counting time I took to teach myself new techniques and make jigs for my table saw. Curious to see how long the second door will take!

*read: I broke it into pieces. It's a funny story - ask me sometime.

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