These four photos represent the types of woodworking I enjoy. Actually, these represent almost every kind of non-construction type of woodworking that I know: furniture, toys, turnings, and scrolling craft items.
After finishing Rocky, my next major project was this steamer trunk. The construction is floating panels and everything is solid wood - mostly cherry. The "leather" trim is walnut. The tray inside slides on wooden rails and uses dovetail joinery.
The "toyshop" name comes from items like these acrobats. The pattern comes from a "Folk Toy" book. I've made and sold several hundred of these. Just squeeze the handles gently and the acrobat flips and flops around the bar. If you're interested, take a look at the toy gallery for better photos.
I saw something similar to this on one of my surfing lunches. When I saw this chunk of beech (with the river running through it), I had to add the fish. The bear and fish are walnut. The construction method was to cut out the inserts (fish and bear) and use them as patterns on the beech. They fit together pretty well, so when the glue dried, I turned the plate. It's about 7 inch diameter and an 1/8 inch thick.
This music box plays "Over the Rainbow" as it rotates slowly. The box and platform are made of butternut, and the figures are from various woods. The Egrets (big white birds) are buckeye, and the smaller ducks are from yellowheart and zebrawood. The cattails are mahogany and the different grasses are whatever I could find lying around. The scrolling was done with a 3-D technique for all the small figures in "the wetlands."