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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Three Sisters Project Done!

Hi Everyone,

Well the Three Sisters Project is finished and here are the final project photos:

The Walnut Plate

The White Ash Plate

And the Cumaru Plate

Im going to pack these up and mail them off tomorrow. I hope the Three Sisters enjoy them and find some meaning in them.

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Ok. I have to clean up the shop and get ready for the tea box project so Ill be doing another posting about that in a day or so. As its Easter Weekend here in the US, I wont do any wood turning until next week.

Have a great weekend-see you soon,

VW

TGIF New projects and project updates

Hi Everyone,
Well, its hot here today and everything is in bloom and we can smell lilac all over the place. It must be the year for them.

Ive been generating a lot of small pieces of lumber and Ive been searching for projects to use them up and one of the projects Im going to start are cutting boards out of assorted hardwoods. Here are some photos and discussion:

I work mostly with domestic hardwoods such as maple, hickory, and black walnut as they are readily available and not terribly costly. I also work with red colored woods such as kempas, Brazilian cherry, and cumaru woods. These woods are also readily available and not endangered. I dont like to waste wood and so here we go- here are some thin pieces that Ive cut off of wider boards:

I decided to trim all of these pieces into uniform a thickness of 1 1/8" on the table saw so the first thing I did was rip them to that thickness and then separate them into colors:

Then I trimmed these strips into 12 1/2" lengths. Here are some for comparison:

Now I can play with all of these various colors and arrange and re-arrange them:

This will become a cutting board after Ive laminated these into a turning blank:

And here are some more cutting boards waiting to be laminated together. The larger ones at the top will be cutting boards and the small ones on the bottom will become either trivets or tea box lids:

Im going to glue up all of these blanks and probably make more next week so Ill have a large supply of turning material.

Next-remember the camphor wood trays and bowl I made about a month ago? Well, I took the trays out to see how they were doing and they had dried quite a bit and there was very little distortion in the trays. So Im putting them back on the lathe for their final cutting. Here is a photo of one thats been cut and one that is waiting its turn:

The shop smells like Vicks Vaporub again! Im curious as to what these trays will look like when they are all finished.

Im going to go and make dinner and cool off with some pineapple juice--see you later this weekend.

VW

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

and my paint project was

Hi! Good news! We made it to the final round of Creating with the Stars!! Final voting starts on Monday, so make sure to come back then for more info!!

We ended up photographing our new secretary in the garage since it was SO heavy! It doesnt look too bad, but I could barely pick up my side. We have no where to put it, so well be selling it!

We started with a piece from Goodwill, they were remodeling the back end of the building so we got it for 50% off, which ended up at $30. Im thinking the drop panel was originally intended to be a dry bar, Goodwill even had it "staged" with an ice bucket and martini glasses ...

We decided to turn it into a secretary desk and I love the new layout! We also added little feet to help it look not as bottom heavy and swapped the hardware for something smaller.

We designed the stencils in the computer and cut them out on the silhouette. The big one is 9 - 12x12 sheets that were taped together!

and a few behind the scenes shots ...

This stencil was pretty exhausting since it was so big, I had to hold down the stencil as I went since it didnt want to stay flat on the wall. We did photograph it in the garage, but there is concrete there! I picked up some cheap (about $1 a ft) laminate from Home Depot. It looked nice for the price, I wonder if it would hold up well? Finally, when styling, Im a big place it and step back to see what it looks like, David was nice enough to move things around for me :)

I found these brass pieces at a local antique store, only a few dollars each!

Vase and pencil holder are votive containers from Target.

I was so excited to see ranunculus, my second favorite flower (favorite peonies)

See how thick that door is!? The doors alone were super heavy!

I really love it :) I hope you do too!! Im off to work on my final project!! :) Wish me luck!

Monday, February 10, 2014

Petersburg Mi project cutting the cherry

Greetings!
Today was the day to cut down all the solid cherry into proper widths. I need 1x4s for the larger rails and stiles, 1x2s for the cabinet face frames, and 1x1s which Ill mill down into some decorative trimwork. It took quite a while, but as you can see, everything is now cut and starting to take shape. I also need to mill some 1x4s to turn into fluted trim. Ill do a seperate post for that operation...

Another new project a Hall Tree!

My 2 year old son has learned the joys of opening the front door as wide as he can when he gets home. In the course of this learning experience he has demolished the cheap coat rack that I bought at Wal Mart about 10 years ago. It has been on a steady decline for the last year and he finally just finished it off.

As a consequence of this my wife challenged me to make a coat rack in 2 weeks to replace it. She invisioned a board with some dowels sticking out of it screwed to the wall. Where is the challenge in that? I did some looking around at some other projects on www.Lumberjocks.com and decided to make a Hall Tree. It is going to be 5 high by 2 wide and 9" deep. It will have a shelf on top with a 2"back and a 5" stretcher underneath for hooks to attach to. The seat will be about 13" high with 2 shelves divided into 5 cubbys for shoe storage. I also plan on putting hooks on the sides. 1 at the top of each side and 1 down lower for backpack storage.

I went to Home Depot and bought 3 - 1x10x6 and 3 - 1x6x10 common boards. I think they are knotty pine. I also bought a $5 bottle of wood glue and a $.61 dowel for my son and the total came out to $44.40. Initially I was thinking that I would make it out of all 1x6s but with the 2 week deadline I opted for the more expensive 1x10s.

The 1x10s were 9.25" wide which messed me up a little because I was expecting them to be 9.5". I ripped them to 9" wide and 5 long. I ripped the 1x6s down to 5" and then used the miter saw to cut them down to 22.5" wide. I also cut one of the 1x10s into 3 - 9x22.5 boards for the seat and cubbys.

I opted to just cut an angle for the sides to slope up. My jigsaw is not working very well right now and I am not that good with it when it is working correctly so the 2 equal really crappy cuts.

I will be attaching everything using pocket holes, glue, and my nail gun.

The seat and cubbys will also have some extra supports glued and tacked underneath just to play it safe.

Cubby dividers same length as supports and 5" tall. These will be glued and tacked into place.

The next step is assembly.

Monday, February 3, 2014

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