Galleries
Latest Work
View a gallery of the latest pieces created by DKA Woodworking.
Project Galleries
These galleries feature many custom pieces, most of which have been purchased. To inquire about available pieces or custom orders, please use the contact form.
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Chilean Mesquite Rootball
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Mixed Wood Pieces
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Blocks & Cubes
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Vessels & Bowls
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Mesquite & Turquoise
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Olive Wood
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Color Dyed Wood
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Christmas Past
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Limed Wood
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Tear Drop Trailer Project
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Fun & Games
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Reclaimed Wood
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Custom Tools
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Furry Friends
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Plywood & Particleboard
2023 & 2024 Gallery
Mixed Wood Pieces
Blocks & Cubes
A cubist phase!
Colored Wood Dyes
The plates in this section are alder or pecan dyed with special wood dyes. Each plate is 11 or 12 inches in diameter and has been dyed with complementary color combinations of primary and secondary harmonious colors.
10 inch alder bowl with inject printer black
Even the garbage gets colorful after these plates!
Teardrop Trailer Project
A 1947 teardrop trailer gets a custom build with Baltic Birch.
Custom Tools
Plywood & Particleboard
Baltic birch plywood layered and dyed green
Common construction plywood, 4 inches in diameter
Common plywood, 6 inches tall
Biased plied alderwood, 4 inches tall
5 inch bowl, common plywood
5 inch bowl, common plywood
4 inch bowl, common plywood
5 inch bowl, common plywood
5 inches, common plywood
6 inches, particleboard and plywood
Plywood with a solid wood rim
Plywood and particleboard
Plywood with a solid wood rim
MDF and plywood
Particleboard MDF and plywood
Particleboard MDF and plywood
Plywood, particleboard MDF and solid wood
Limed Wood
10 inch ash bowl painted red and yellow and limed black
12 inch hickory bowl with copper and brass liming
10 inch ask bowl stained black and limed white
Olive Wood
8 inch candle holder
Called "Ilium", this piece resembles an ilium bone
7 day candle holder
10 inch olive wood in a mesquite holder
Showcasing the wildly moving grain of olive wood
Affectionately called "The Bagel"
A piece in progress in the wood shop
Olive and mesquite with turquoise in the cracks
Small, heavy bowl
Mushroom shaped tea light holder
Tea light holder, top view
A series of 10 - 11 inch plates
All the pieces in this gallery came from the same piece of olive wood.
Olive wood stumps often contain dirt, gravel and other debris.
Mesquite & Turquoise
Chilean Mesquite Rootball
This 25 year old rootball was harvested out of a friend’s backyard. The ends were painted and then it was allowed to dry for several years. After debarking and carving, the final piece measured 25 by 16 inches and will be displayed in the entrance of a community building.
Vessels, Plates & Bowls
Mesquite foot vessel with sapwood
Mesquite footed vessel
African Sumac (Rhus lancea)
Hand-carved African Sumac (8")
Hand carved African Sumac (6")
African Sumac vessel with Walnut ends
Small bowl
Lathed items, freshly varnished
Cyprus vessel with walnut oil coating
Cypress vessel
Zebrawood & Wenge plate (10")
Zebrawood & Wenge bowls (5")
Layered Cherry bowl (8")
Layered Cherry bowl (8")
Wenge & Ash plate (8")
Ash & Hickory bowl (5")
Walnut & Hickory plate (8")
Small heavy bowl
Days of Christmas Past
Reclaimed Wood
The wood used in DKA Woodworking projects is sourced both locally and from around the world. Shelves are filled with wood from an endless variety of locations: local lumberyards, free pieces shared by strangers and friends, lakeside trees from Northern Minnesota, prairie trees from a North Dakota farmstead and specialty woods from around the world. Have a pickup truck and will break for wood!
Furry Friends
A multitude of furry helpers have acted as supervisors, inspectors, entertainers and friends in the woodshop.
Madison, who ignores "kitty kitty" and only comes when called by name.
Chase Cat, busy supervising woodworking projects
What?!
Chantelle, a feisty kitty who liked to be petted for 45 seconds, tops.
Abby, using the chain link fence to scratch her sides.
Woodworking wears a guy out.
Fun & Games
Sometimes playing around with wood and tools leads to even more playtime!
