Baseball Card Display
(1x3x8 scraps, 12×24 plywood, bamboo sticks, dollhouse baseboard, dollhouse moulding, dollhouse bunting, dollhouse picket fencing, modeling sand, modeling grass, baseball minitures, chicken wire, printed poster board, spray paint, wood stain, fairy lighting, JB Weld Quickweld, JB Weld Wood Putty, Gorilla Glue, and finishing nails)
As mentioned in my fine art page, I really became enamored with early 1900’s baseball cards during the COVID-19 pandemic. I decided I would spend much of 2020 trying to build a complete set of Boston Braves players. As I began to accumulate some cards, I realized I needed a fun way to showcase these cards in our basement. I decided it was time to take on another hobby: wood working.
In an attempt to re-create the visual ascetic of “Dead Ball Era” baseball, I built my own shadow box frame and created a backstop fence, lighted grandstand, netting, and roofing facade that matched the ball parks of the era. Here is the final result:
Sports Card Tap Handle
(1.5x4x8, JB Weld Wood Putty, 1/4 inch dowel rods, One-Screw Baseball Card Holder, JB Weld Quickweld, wood stain, tap screw insert)
Once I got comfortable with my power tools, I decided it was time to make myself a tap handle for my kegerator. Keeping with the dead-ball era theme, I decided to make a tap-handle with a recessed pocket for a baseball card holder. I love how this came out:
Floating Frame for Canvas
(1x3x8 board, 3 3/4 dowel rods, Kona wood stain, black spray paint, Gorilla Glue, finishing nails, JB Weld Wood Putty, JB Weld Clear Weld, 4 L-Brackets, 1 Tooth Hanger, screws, after-market gallery light)
As mentioned in my painting section, I created a painting of Honus Wagner’s famous t206 card. Because the canvas was such odd dimensions (10×20), I decided to build my own floating frame for it. Because that wasn’t difficult enough, I decide to take an after-market gallery light and build it into the frame surround. Here are the results:
