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Even if you are not a woodworker but you like some or all of the projects, have your local crafts person make them for you from the ideas and photos you see here. For a particular project just click the specific title on the Blog Archive list (right side column below).

For anyone willing to learn or begin to do woodworking for the first time, please read first from the Blog Archive, "How and Where to Begin a Woodworking Hobby.

And it is not for men only. Read my note on "Women in Woodworking" from Blog Archive, April 2010.


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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Climbing Plants Climbing Elegantly?

Most varieties of ivy love to climb but this one featured here is not an ivy. It is, however, a prolific grower like an ivy,  which from  a single plant I was able to propagate several now into various planters.  More importantly, this is also an able air cleaner and oxygen producer indoors.  Often, a thin stalk or wooden stake will do the trick to keep climbers straight up. For this project I used 3/8 inch clear plastic rods (from online sellers) for near invisibility.

With a caliper I measured the diameter of the non-draining planter.


To make the proper width I glued up two narrow work pieces



I drilled a hole on one, cut the pieces to dimensioned squares and ran the edges at the router table. Drilled two 3/8 hones at two corners, later.


Glued the two pieces later 


Two 10-inch rods needed to be joined. From scrap plastic tubing (black) I cut two pieces to serve as union joint.  


AC glue (crazy glue) made the joinery strong.


Holes at the two corners will receive the the two rods, secured with AC glue.









A thin narrower center rod is where paper clips attached the two side rods.


Below is where the first single plant was planted and where several others were propagated from.




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