https://www.facebook.com/107977878492313/

Opa's Woodshop

Home
United States
Cypress, TX
Opa's Woodshop

Quality, handmade wooden home décor items; can customize or personalize upon request.

10/19/2026

There are few things as simultaneously infuriating and depressing as turning a beautiful live edge bowl and then sodding up the bottom while you clean off the tenon. 🤬🤬🤬

11/10/2025

The start of a live-edge bowl always looks cool...

09/27/2025

I suppose I would consider this to be my first true butcher's block. Certainly was the first time I tried to cut octagons with my table saw, as evidenced by the gaps between the main pieces. I'm still quite pleased with it though. A good use of the tree that fell on my back patio during the derecho last year. End grain oak with end grain Bradford pear.

09/21/2025

Couple firsts with this project:
- First time I've tried an inlay
- First time I've used Rubio Monocoat.

Overall I think it turned out pretty well, bloodwood inlay into a live-edge oak cookie. I tried to tint the epoxy filler as close to Oklahoma Cream as I could; think it turned out well considering this was the first time I'd tried to understand subtractive vs additive color models.

08/28/2025

Finally able to get back to it. Have a stack of bowls ready for their 320 hand sand before oiling, and have a few bowls awaiting their final coats before being called done. That oak bowl with the epoxy patch in the bottom: that's mine. The grain is absolutely amazing. Hopefully with a little polishing the epoxy will lose the scratch marks and go full clear.

06/14/2025

Finally finished my last 3 gift bowls. Wasn't happy with how the finish turned out on two of them so I sanded them down and reapplied.

Top left is 9" diameter Bradford pear
Top right is 8" diameter tulip poplar
Center bottom is 8" diameter aromatic cedar

06/02/2025

Made a quick little bird feeder post using a limb I trimmed from a tree earlier this week.

07/30/2024

Finally got the finishing touches on the girls' new LEGO table AND finished cutting up all the wood from the storm back in May. For the just time in months, I can park my car in the garage again. 🦾

And I've got a mountain of bowl blanks. Once I finish the bathroom retile it'll be time to make mountains of wood turnings. 😆😆😆

06/17/2024

And I'm still not done cutting up the logs from my tree!!

06/01/2024

First attempt at a live edge bowl; think it turned out all right.

Address

Cypress, TX
77429, 77433

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Opa's Woodshop posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.