Can Do WoodCrafts LLC

Personalized Book Page Holder!!

Absolutely beautiful Turtle Sea Glass Holder made for Mrs. CanDo!! The Walnut compliments the vibrant colors of the sea glass perfectly! 🌊🐟🦀🧜‍♀️⚓️🪼🪸🐚

As a veteran, Memorial Day holds a profound and deeply personal significance.
While many see it as a long weekend or the unofficial start of summer, for me, it’s a solemn day of remembrance—an opportunity to pause and honor the men and women who gave everything in service to this country.
These are not just names etched in stone or statistics in a book; they are brothers, sisters, comrades and friends.
Some of them I served beside.
Some I laughed, trained, and stood watch with.

And some never came home.

Memorial Day is not a celebration; it’s a vow.
A vow to never forget.
A vow to live a life worthy of their sacrifice.
And a vow to always remember that freedom is not free.
This particular Memorial Day weekend I chose to humbly honor a request to build a shadow box for a recently fallen comrade.
In some small way I truly hope this token brings his loved ones a reminder of his dedication and sacrifice to our nation.

Mr. CanDo made this sign for Mrs. CanDo! Beautiful live edge cedar!

Merry Christmas to all of our customers! We appreciate your business throughout the year!

Workshop is laden with walnut, black paint and poly dust. Happy to be asked to build this heirloom. Story to follow.

This project needs to come to completion soon, I’m running out of pencil 🤷🏼‍♂️

Just a reminder, Seabee’s are among the top tier of the military.

A history lesson and interesting Seabee facts to share with family and friends.

1. For the most part, when the Seabees were created during WWII they recruited skilled steel workers, mechanics, truck drivers, heavy equipment operators, carpenters, plumbers, HVAC guys, etc. i.e. from day one we’ve been skilled labor, not someone looking for job skill training

2. In the present time, the Seabees are considered part of the expeditionary forces of the Navy, thus creating a unique requirement: after earning your Seabee Combat Warfare pin, you have to earn your expeditionary warfare pin. No other unit in the Navy (to include the Seals) have a dual warfare platform requirement.

3. Although the history books grossly omit reporting it, most of the major Marine Corps battles from WWII to the present day included Seabee units (Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, etc).

4. Although proudly part of the U.S. Navy, the Seabees operate as virtually a separate entity on their own. They have their own song (like the Navy and Marine Corps), they celebrate their birthday with their own birthday ball (like the Navy and Marine Corps), they have their own motto (we build and fight, CAN DO),

5. The average Seabee is “triple talented” as opposed to a Sailor who’s just double talented: a Yeoman on a ship is a Yeoman and a basic deck seaman/sailor on a ship. A Yeoman in the Seabees is a Yeoman, basic construction man/laborer, rifleman in a lite infantry unit.

6. Seabees can be and are assigned to units and details all over the world and in every spectrum of warfare, even special operations. As a matter of fact, the first Seabee Medal of Honor recipient (Marvin Shields) was killed in Viet Nam while serving with an Army green beret unit.

7. In addition to global operations in war fighting and combat zone construction, the bees have been utilized here and abroad in numerous humanitarian aid and disaster relief missions.

8. When the Air Force decided to get into combat engineering, they patterned their “Red Horse” units off the Navy Seabees. They wanted the right mix of lite ground combat capabilities mixed with productive construction capabilities. The Army and Marines combat engineers specialize in breaching operations but are worthless at actual construction

9. The Seabees have major command HQ’s at Port Hueneme California and Gulfport Mississippi, but other units can be found on regular Navy bases and some Army bases (NMCB 24 had a presence on Ft Knox for years).

10. Seabees have a history of enjoying the consumption of alcoholic beverages and telling stories. If you enjoy hearing quality adventure stories, sometimes of a mature nature, offer to buy a Seabee a few rounds of cocktails in exchange for a few tales of high adventure. You’ll be glad you did!

Extra tidbit- Seabees are also found amongst the SPECWAR units. Most of the SPECWAR Units originally derived from Seabees when they were first formed. Seabees are the father of SEALS!

This bookcase was handed down to me nearly 20 years ago after my mother passed. It was made by my grandfather (mother’s father) Joe Morin (11/1885-7/1964) before I was born. Being that he lived through the depression era he made it Cherry but closer inspection proved that he made up the shelves from thinner stock in which he joined together. Still holding up after all these years, the case itself was showing signs of many years of kid and general life abuse. The back was beyond repair (but was repurposed) and all the joints were “loose”. When I asked Mrs. CanDo if I should repair only over refinishing she said to repair only. Once I got into it the original varnish finish was beyond restoration. All joints were repaired, the original finish removed, sanded and custom mixed stained to match original hue. The intent was to use a polyurethane finish but I could not get the top to come out decent. After several attempts I decided to strip the top back to bare wood, restain and use epoxy to get the top “right” while allowing the aged character to show through. Sanded the whole piece and applied 6 Coates of hand rubbed “warm gloss oil based polyurethane. We think we did a decent job of repairing while leaving all of the original craftsmanship (and character that all of us kids added) and matched the original finish. Only difference is that this finish is super tough and should last well into my great, great grandchildren’s lives. Pépère lives on! ❤️

The “I Don’t Give a F**k” Starter Pack from CanDo Woodcrafts is here!!!!
*Small (contains 2 F***s) $3
*Medium (contains 5 F***s) $5
*Large (contains 10 F***s) $10

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Just finished up this order for tags. Only 108 this time but glad to do it for such a cool individual. If you haven’t checked the page take a look at . One of the most accepting, compassionate people on the planet.
Looking forward to see what’s next!

Cute Planter made from scraps! Mr. CanDo sometimes has a hard time seeing Mrs. CanDo’s vision but he always makes it happen!