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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 01/10/2026

Not gonna make a lick of difference, but at least I can pretend my voice is being heard 🙃

Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 17/07/2026

Thanks #Chewy, but maybe read the room a little (for reference, Tali passed on 6/21/26, and within a day I memorialized her profile and removed any auto-ship items for her. As a prior employee, I understand these are important steps for signaling to the company that she is no longer with us)

Birthday card from Chewy, "Cue the catnip. It's party time!" addressed to me.

Inside of the card:
Hi Luna & Tali,

Happy birthday! Let's today to a year of epic tail wags, treat feasts, and all the snuggles! Celebrate with 20% of Birthday Shop goodies using code BDAY20

XO,
Your Chewy Family

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 08/04/2026

Starting to take shape -- if you can see it through the maze of clamps 🫣

Three pieces of ¾" thick walnut; two arcs with a square in between. On the inside of one arc bits of the concentric routed arcs with embedded magnets are visible.

The three pieces of walnut are getting glued together, with painter's tape guiding one set of edges into alignment. Two large parallel clamps are in place starting to hold it all together.

I swear the walnut pieces are in there somewhere in the mess of clamps (there are at least 13 clamps now binding the pieces together while the glue dries. Many of them are comically long for the glue up -- most are > 12" long and some as much as 4' long for a glue up that's approximately 2¼" thick. Hey, use what you've got 🤷🏼‍♀️)

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 07/04/2026

Day job and life has gotten in the way of progress, but a little further 🤷🏼‍♀️

A few routed concentric arcs in walnut wood with magnets embedded in the arcs

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia college showing Charlie's favorite hobby is magnets. Not making them, collecting them, or anything else. Just magnets.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 04/04/2026

Making a thing. Any guesses about what it is?

A wide walnut board with a series of approximately 90° concentric arcs cut into it.
In the background is a tremendously messy workshop featuring tape measure, heat gun, silicone molds, and a whole lot of sawdust. Each of these may or may not be related to the thing I'm making.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 06/02/2026

Jess, she/her Transitioned 2016, age 33 My hobby is collecting hobbies; particularly long-lasting ones include woodworking and renewable energy.

Jess reading a children's book about cats to her cats, who are looking on without much interest.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 03/01/2026

A Christmas gift. End grain, with beeswax melted in to make a permanent finish requiring little to no maintenance.

A large cutting board, approximately 20"x13" made of African padauk (red) and maple in a brick-style pattern.

The previous cutting board showing the wax infusion process. A ski wax iron is on the board, and much of the wax is melted. The iron is only used for this purpose to ensure food safety. A bar of beeswax is visible to the left of the board.

An in-process image of the cutting board, spring a bunch of strips looking like individual brick layers that have not been glued together yet. These are freshly cut, with the table saw used to cut them as the background.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 30/11/2025

Near Somerville, MA? I'm at Arts at the Armory with the Boston Women's Market now until 5pm

Jess standing behind her table at Arts at the Armory, Somerville. On the table are various things she's made, including ballpoint and fountain pens, spatulas, cheese boards, chopsticks, rings, and earrings; all handmade from wood, epoxy, opals, etc.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 24/12/2024

Cutting boards -- Christmas presents and commissions for others to give as presents. All end grain. Two have Tried and True Original finish (longer lasting than mineral oil + beeswax and as food safe); two have beeswax infusion (permanent finish; needs no further conditioning) #woodworking

Large maple + bocote checkerboard pattern end grain cutting board. This one has a beeswax infusion finish -- allowing the end grain to soak up molten beeswax, giving it a permanent finish that needs no future conditioning. This board can be hand washed and scrubbed with soap and water without causing any damage to the finish.

Medium black walnut brick pattern end grain cutting board. This one has a beeswax infusion finish -- allowing the end grain to soak up molten beeswax, giving it a permanent finish that needs no future conditioning. This board can be hand washed and scrubbed with soap and water without causing any damage to the finish.

Small cherry + maple brick pattern end grain cutting board. The maple looks like "mortar" between the cherry "bricks." This one has a Tried and True Original finish -- a mix of boiled (not chemically polymerized) linseed oil and beeswax. This finish will last a little longer than a mineral oil + beeswax finish, but will still need regular conditioning.

Very small black walnut brick pattern end grain cutting board. This one has a Tried and True Original finish -- a mix of boiled (not chemically polymerized) linseed oil and beeswax. This finish will last a little longer than a mineral oil + beeswax finish, but will still need regular conditioning.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 20/12/2024

Like thicker, heavier fountain pens? My latest is an M3 (mokume gane style) metal and resin blank on a Gentleman kit -- the largest kit I work with. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. woodworkingbyjess.com/store/p/foun... #woodworking #fountainpen

A fountain pen made by Jess Morgan, shown with cap on, facing away from the camera. The body is a dense shiny swirl of black and silver; the accents are gold. This is a fairly large/thick pen, and the metal/resin material makes it a little heavier than normal.

A fountain pen made by Jess Morgan, shown with cap off; the cap and pen body are oriented in an upside-down V with the nib pointing to the lower right. The body is a dense shiny swirl of black and silver; the accents are gold. This is a fairly large/thick pen, and the metal/resin material makes it a little heavier than normal.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 05/12/2024

Mimosa River bowl woodworkingbyjess.com/store/p/mimo...

Yellow bowl made from mimosa wood, with a translucent blue epoxy "river" bisecting it, with visible swirls due to the mica powder mixed into the epoxy. It's fairly shiny due to a polish and finish with polyurethane and carnauba wax. The bowl is approximately 5.5" wide and 1.75" tall.

Bottom view of the mimosa/blue epoxy river bowl, showing how glossy the finish is by highlighting the reflection of a light in the epoxy.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 24/11/2024

Rough early prototype, but completed my first bespoke fountain pen today. Mix of padauk and aluminum; hand turned and machined.

Bespoke fountain pen, closed. Appears almost as a padauk dowel in this form; there are no outwardly visible decorations and it is a consistent width across its length.

Bespoke fountain pen, opened with the nib pointing away from the camera. The design does not allow for the cap to post, so it is next to the pen.
At the end of the padauk body, a machined aluminum section is visible, screwed into an aluminum threaded sleeve. A two-tone nib is screwed into the end of the section.

Bespoke fountain pen, opened with the nib pointing toward the camera. The design does not allow for the cap to post, so it is next to the pen.
At the end of the padauk body, a machined aluminum section is visible, screwed into an aluminum threaded sleeve. A two-tone nib is screwed into the end of the section.

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 23/11/2024

Come see me at the Missituk Makers Market! Arts Collaborative 162 Mystic Ave., Medford, MA 11am-2pm today

My setup at the Missituk Makers Market; a single 6' table with green tablecloth, completely covered with my inventory for sale (cheese boards, chopsticks, bowls, salt & pepper grinders, bottle stoppers, rings, earrings, and lots of pens including a number of fountain pens)

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Woodworking By Jess @woodworkingbyjess.com · 22/11/2024

A couple new spatulas for tomorrow's market. Arrive early if you want one; the purpleheart spatulas tend to sell quickly. Otherwise, order on my website; I make them on demand: woodworkingbyjess.com/store/p/spat...