Big Green Egg Table

Speaking of woodworking and good eats, my Big Green Egg is one of the best grill/smokers available.  Many BBQ competition winners have won using this incredible ceramic machine. Visit their website here, and really,  you should buy one of these.They are an amazing cooking machine. http://www.biggreenegg.com/

 They sell tables for the Egg, but I love woodworking so I wanted to build my own.I built the basic frame out of treated lumber and then had my sweet Connie help me lift it over the Egg before finishing construction. 

Everything is on castors so its a piece of cake to roll it around wherever you want to put it.

Here is the table top after I used my router to cut the hole in it and then split it in half so it would fit over the Eggs hinge hardware.The top is very simple to build.  Just 1/2 inch plywood with a border of 1X2 pine glued and nailed on.

 Here is the other half. If you would like to see what Connie did with the round piece that I cut out see her blog here.http://crafty-home-cottage.blogspot.com/

 I stained it with Minwax Puritan Pine #218. After that I hammered it with 6 coats of tung oil.

 I have had these horseshoes for quite awhile now and have been wondering about how to incorporate them into my Cowboy/Mexican Restaurant themed outdoor kitchen. I think they look absolutely great on my Big Green Egg table.

Like I have said before, our motto around here is "We aint buildin no piano". But I think youll have to admit that this table looks pretty dang good

 Looks to me like a good combination of "Woodworkin and good eats"Dont you think?Come by again soon to see what I cook on the Big Green Egg!I love it when you visit and then I get to visit your blogs.

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Lucys Birthday Kitchen

This was the birthday present I built for my secondgranddaughter when she turned 2 years old.Her very own kitchen.Connie and I designed this ourselves with no plans so it is one of a kind.

The sink is an 8 inch stainless steel mixing bowl.  Check out the real faucets. The stove burners are mahogany.

This is the refrigerator.Like most of this project, it is made of pine.I love working with pine wood.  It is beautiful and easy to work with.

I used dowels for the shelves so they would look more like a real refrigerator. The dowels are made of oak.

Dowels also for the oven racks and a clear plexiglass oven door to give it the feel of a real oven.

 The frames for the oven door and pan storage door are made of oak with oak handles also. I love to mix different kinds of wood in my projects.I wish I had taken photos of the construction of this but I was not a blogger then.Anychoice my little darling loves her birthday present.See my  Motorcycle Rocker post if you have not seen it.  Thank you for stopping by my blog.  I would love to hear your comments.Steve.

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