I owe the forum a few photos because I seldom post. I am currently building my family a new home. The home is on my grandfathers property where he taught me about woodworking. I have been using my stash of lumber (which my grandfather took great pleasure in watching the milling process) in the construction... When I have the time. I wish he was alive to see the house.
Here is some of the lumber off the mill several years ago:
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And a bar top for the kitchen:
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More to follow.
I hope so!!! WOW!!!!!!!!
Nice!
Stairs curtesy of the emerald ash borer, sticker stain included. These are open tread design.
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I have some trim work left on the stairs and I have some nosing on the bottom of the planks to satisfy code that are not permanent.
Beautiful bar. Awesome.
I love what your are doing. It is very satisfying watching trees become a home. :)
How did you cut the miter for the bar?
Really great job! I think your grandfather is there and smiling!
How did you support and anchor the stair treads? Looks like they are double thickness.
The miter for the bar was rough cut with a circular saw and refined with hand tools. A miter on a large plank is not very fun... A lot of fine tuning by hand. The stairs a roughly 9/4 and supported by heavy angle brackets on each end. The lags are into doubled 2x stringers. A 350lb man does not budge them or make them creak. My whole family can jump on one with no movement/noise.
Walnut rails and gaurds
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You're better at woodworking than you are at rotating your pictures :snowball: :D
Having the pics right side up would be a big help. The bain of the iPhone/iPad
That kitchen bar is really a beauty.
Regarding the picture rotation issues - I've been having a lot of problems on the forum lately. I rotate my pictures via the gallery tool but they sometimes seem to rotate themselves back when viewed in-thread. Don't think it's a cache problem because I've seen them look OK in-thread immediately after fixing them, and the next day they're messed up again. Never had this problem until the past month or two.
Thanks for posting Sparty
There apparently is a way to hold the iphone cameras in such a way that the pics are correct. Might be good for us to find out what that is and encourage it.
Googled it and found this...
http://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-photos-upside-down/
Take photo's with the volume button down.. is the suggested fix.
Great job. Your grandfaher would be proud. :)
Very beautiful work
I am at training this week... Away from my laptop. I can't get the photos to look right from my iPhone . I will see if I can resolve the problem via laptop later. When I view the photos, they all have the correct orientation. They do appear distorted lengthwise, though.
Wow! The pictures have the correct aspect, just rotated 90° counter-clockwise.
Your doing a beautiful job with all that nice wood.
You can rotate the images from within your gallery as well. ;)
That is absolutely beautiful work, I especially like the vanity. Well done. 8)
Strange...posted and viewed the pictures on my iPhone and everything was fine. Dodgy made fun of the photos but I couldn't see the problem until I accessed the site via a laptop. Photos are fine with the iPhone, but rotated on a computer. Anyway, fixed them on the laptop.
Sparty
Many thanks... 8)
I love the entire display of your workmanship and your mix of Walnut and Ash is superb. That vanity is rustic yet elegant. smiley_thumbsup
Any chance you can send more pics of the walnut handrail? I have 3x4 walnut cut in the garage for this and have been looking for a nice simple design. Mounting pictures and close ups would be awesome ...thanks chris
The rails are a simple design. Just a rectangle cross section with a 45 taken off the edges. I rounded the edges with hand planes. The cross section fits code for graspable hand rails. The returns coincide with studs in the wall, so a pocket hole screw helps secure the end of rail.
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I picked up the powder coated black hangers for the middle sections and like the pocket hole idea for ends. Great job again, I will post my hallway once they are up, thank you for the guidance !
Thanks for posting detail on stairs. My wife and I really like the kitchen bar and bathroom vanity top. We differ on opinions of the railing for the upper level. I like what you did. She is more of a fan of a vertical rail orientation. She is thinking kids will be climbing the horizontal rails.
I really like all the walnut!
Vertical guard rails do offer more safety for small children, but I much prefer horizontal lines. A great deal of commercial buildings use horizontal bars... And the way codes are now, you know that they would be outlawed if there were many injuries associated with them. I know that some inspectors do frown on them, though. I designed the top cap to make it difficult for a small child to climb. A wide board on top makes it much more difficult for a child to crest the top, especially if the board overhangs the pedestrian's side of the rail. A child would have to lean back and then leverage themselves over the top using a lot of arm strength. That being said, I am sure that many kids could climb it, or drown in the pond, or get lost in the woods, or.....
Sparty
I was not throwing darts at design. I really like it. Just shared wife comments as an opposing opinion from mine and why. I think you thought it out, designed it to be safe and did a fantastic job!
I look forward to more of your photos, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely stunning, your grandfather as taught you well. He is looking down on you with a smile and extremely proud. Nice work
No offense taken at all. We all constantly make decisions as to where we draw the line between being safe and being paranoid. It can be difficult. None of us want to be confined by an overly complex building code, but none of us want to see someone get hurt, either.
Another walnut counter. My apologies if the orientation is incorrect...will check it on my laptop later
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Sparty
Try the trick of taking iPhone shots with the volume control down.
'Tis said to keep pics right side up when viewing on computers.
The work looks great, but will get better when all is kosher in the end.
Added a master closet and shower bench this week. The closet is a cherry frame with stained birch plywood secondary wood. The shower bench is Ipe. I also took a little time for a project with one of my sons. He has been getting into skateboarding. We researched skateboard deck measurements and I found that there are quite a few young men learning some woodworking skills in order to make their own skateboards/longboards.
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Did you use pocket holes to join the face frame and to mount it to the birch?
Seems like your son may have a 'woodworking' interest. I remember my dad cutting a piece of wood and taking a steel wheeled old skate apart and mounting the wheels on the piece of wood to make a skate board for me. It was fun. You could sit on it (many years ago when I was smaller) ride down the concrete driveway and lean heavy to one side or the other and it would slide around. Once I started to stand up on it he took it away for fear I'd break my neck! :o ;D
Finally put up the first test fit of the new railing, love the one finished corner look, need to complete the other end now that I know length.
Thanks again for the idea, just what I needed to get going on finishing these steps. Lacquer finish makes the walnut really pop.
regards,
-chris
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Real nice fit and finish.. smiley_thumbsup
Hey... That looks familiar. Great job. I find that I like the squared cross section better than round or oval.
Nice looking projects, the question I have is how did you get sticker stains on the steps??
I like to dry my carpet 1 year per inch, just takes a lot of room in the backyard :)
:D :D
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Nice looking projects, the question I have is how did you get sticker stains on the steps??
Good material here. :D :D :D
Poston, the only way I can figure out how to get sticker stains is to plane and mill everything to finished spec's and then sticker the completed steps while waiting for them to be installed, using damp stickers. Actually I'd never heard or seen sticker stain before until its been mentioned here on the forum, just trying to figure out how it happened.
Here's how you get sticker stain on stairs:
1. Get ash borers to kill all the ash trees
2. Get the city to give you a whack of beautiful ash logs (as long as you get to them before the cogeneration plant picks them up)
3. Use your good stickers on your walnut and the not-so-dry stickers on the free ash
4. Find a good use for your recovered ash.
The forum and I are the only ones who noticed the stain. The treads are mounted on angle brackets so I can swap them out easily if I ever want to place an interesting slab in there.
How to get stains in your carpet:
1. Let a goat in your house🙂
For randy88, the sticker stain is pretty easy to get if you use green (undried) stickers on fresh sawn light colored woods. The stain usually is deep enough that it won't plane out. Interestingly, 6/4 ash in the same pile with the same stickers did not stain. It must have dried quick enough to avoid the stain that appeared in the 10/4 slabs. I don't think you could get a similar stain in dried wood that you milled and stacked with wet stickers. For one, if it is dried to final moisture content, you should be able to dead stack it. If you did put wet stickers on it, I guess you could get some fungus stains, but I think those would be pretty shallow stains.... never tried it, though.
Sparty, only wood workers will ever find things amiss with any wood project, all others will just think its part of the design or is supposed to be there.
Sparty, the countertops are incredible. Can you share the finish you used, especially for the bathroom?
The finish is a bit of an experiment... I finished all of my maple flooring with a water based flooring poly. I liked the matte finish so I tried it on the countertops. So far, it has worked well. I tried a few different combos of finish. I like to try new finishes on my own furniture before I would sell it to somebody else