Woodworking in new home

[Sparty]

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: 

 
And a bar top for the kitchen:


  

  

 

More to follow.

[thecfarm]

I hope so!!! WOW!!!!!!!!

[Hilltop366]

Nice!

[Sparty]

Stairs curtesy of the emerald ash borer, sticker stain included.  These are open tread design.

  

  

 

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.

[WDH]

Beautiful bar.  Awesome.

[Magicman]

I love what your are doing.  It is very satisfying watching trees become a home.   

[WDH]

How did you cut the miter for the bar?

[samandothers]

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.

[Sparty]

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.

[Sparty]

Walnut rails and gaurds


  

  

 

[Dodgy Loner]

You're better at woodworking than you are at rotating your pictures :D

[beenthere]

Having the pics right side up would be a big help. The bain of the iPhone/iPad

[lowpolyjoe]

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

[beenthere]

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.

[21incher]

Great job. Your grandfaher would be proud.

[coalsmok]

Very beautiful work

[Sparty]

 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.

[Ljohnsaw]

Wow!  The pictures have the correct aspect, just rotated 90° counter-clockwise.

[SwampDonkey]

Your doing a beautiful job with all that nice wood.

You can rotate the images from within your gallery as well. ;)

[sawguy21]

That is absolutely beautiful work, I especially like the vanity. Well done. 8)

[Sparty]

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.

[beenthere]

Sparty
Many thanks... 8)

[Magicman]

I love the entire display of your workmanship and your mix of Walnut and Ash is superb.  That vanity is rustic yet elegant.

[OffGrid973]

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

[Sparty]

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.