Watcha Makin'?

[Andries]

Dang Larry, that is one good lookin' little project!
If you you price them too high, and bring way too many to the Fall Fair, you'll still sell them all.
Nice work, and love the grain tone contrast. 
Where's that 'like' button ? ?

[mapleack]

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  I'm building a spruce table for on my covered porch.  Call it gaining experience with cheap wood (that I milled).   My son asked if he could help sand so he got the underside.  His choice of music in the worktunes earmuffs made it fun.

[WV Sawmiller]

 

 
I made this raised bed planter yesterday in about an hour or less. All done but putting the legs on. I went out this morning and put the legs on as shown, loaded it and 100 tomato stakes and took them to a local plant nursery/curb market. They had ordered the stakes and when they saw the planter they bought it too. I need to make another one or two as a local store is going to need some and I bet this one sells pretty fast where it is. I left another couple dozen stakes with another market a few blocks away. 

[97redjeep]

Another picnic table down, this one was a little more work with planing and routering, but it turned out great. The seats are a little far away from the table, but if you'd met the guy that it's for you'd understand haha, 6'5" 400ish😬
 

 

[Old Greenhorn]

Well, slowly things are getting to a finished state. The other day I did a video on putting the legs on this bench but I didn't include any finished photo's in the video because I had touch up work remaining on the top. It started out looking like this:



 

 So here's how it came out:



 

Pretty hard to see the glue lines unless you follow the grain. I might be getting better at this.



 

The live edges don't look bad either.



 

As always, the RiteLegs make my work look good.



 

In that last one you can see the glue-up lines better. The center piece is a wedge cut off one slab then flipped 180° end for end to make the bench edges more parallel.



 

So this is RO that were the drops off of the dining room table and benches I made last fall. I thought it was a good way to use them up and it gives me a demo bench I can use to show off the RiteLegs at shows if I ever get to do any. The legs are something folks need to see before they will spend the money, I am finding. I still need to clean up those legs, they have dust in the tight corners and were in the logrite backroom for a 'while'. ;D

[terrifictimbersllc]

I saw it in person this morning, I can testify that it looks great.

[DWyatt]

Been working on a little upgrade for our closet. I just can't stomach the cost of those online closet companies so I made something even better. Our closet as a little small for two sides of hanging, but through some clever use of space, we are making it work. I still have to build out the other side which will just be a 2' wide tower with drawers and shelves then hanging on each side.



 

[Old Greenhorn]

Super job! I wish I had that kind of space and you make great use of it. All those drawers have to be real handy. Nice Job.

[DWyatt]

The drawers are to replace the dresser that's been through too many moves and is starting to fall apart. I did this whole project with prefinished maple plywood. A little bit of iron on edge banding and it's ready to install. It made the project go so much quicker!

[doc henderson]

and if you do not shell out a fortune and go to a big box store, you get what you pay for.  a lot of cabinets are on pallets as clearance as is.  I have seen them break or fall apart just trying to load them in a truck.  Old Kenny opened his own cabinet shop.  he said it was the highest profit margin when building a house.

[Old Greenhorn]

Well since it is done, I should probably put up and official post on the bar project. First here is what I started with a couple of years ago:


 

And here are some shots of the finished bar:



 



 



 



 



 

The top is all Ash from the same tree. Finished all over in epoxy. The shelf is Sycamore with ERC accents, finished in oil based polyurethane. The legs are customs from Rite Leg Company. I had them add the straps that the shelf sits on and raise the bottom edge of those side plates. 
 The client is happy and I am glad it's done and can't wait to deliver it.

[Wlmedley]

That's one smooth finish.Looks like glass.Well done Tom,you're a lot better epoxy man than I am  :laugh:

[thecfarm]

Almost looks like you know what you are doing!!!!!  ;D

[Old Greenhorn]

Well I think I am getting there Ray, little by little. ;D

[aigheadish]

There are some cobwebs in your lights up there Tom! 

Uh, not really but that shine and reflection is great on a very nice piece of work. You should be very proud of yourself! 

[tule peak timber]

Last shot of the walnut table after rubout and polish. I built a little cart for transport to the clients home as the table is very difficult to pick up with the beveled knife edge.

 

 

 

[21incher]

Wow. That's beautiful.  Does your  crew deliver pieces like that to insure they get safely to their new homes?

[thecfarm]

What is it? Besides a beautiful piece of wood.

[tule peak timber]

It is a 3-inch-thick table top I built for another wood working shop. As a sub-contractor I'm not responsible for moving or installation, just the build. There is a 45-degree bevel under the edge which makes this top very difficult to pick up or move. This top is part of a series of furniture pieces for a very interesting client. I have Tony do the final rub out as I lack the patience! :D

[tule peak timber]

Roughing out a mid-century design table base today for a special slab that is still in the kiln. Mesquite.

 

[doc henderson]

nice.  how much did the tabletop weigh?  Mid-century modern, that is kind of what I am!   :D

[tule peak timber]

I want to say a "hundred something." I built as light as possible....... ;D

[WV Sawmiller]

 

 
I bought a cordless electric staple gun a few days ago and tried it out today building 6 of these simple crates out of poplar. I was using 1.5" X 18 gauge crown staples. I have mixed feelings. I like the staples but about half of them did not completely sink into the wood. In one case I had a knot and they would not go half way into it. I may take it back and see if they have a corded model with more power. I liked this one as it uses the same batteries my other cordless equipment does. 

   The crates fit 12 pint or 12 quart fruit/canning jars. A 1X8 works well for the quarts and a 1X6 works well for the pints. A pint sixed crate nests snugly inside the quart sized crate. I use 2" X 3/8" lath strips cut or salvaged when edging 2" poplar framing lumber. Using 1/2" drops on my SimpleSet takes a 1/8" kerf and returns a nice 3/8" strip which dries quickly and has good strength for this use and other projects.

[21incher]

I have the Milwaukee M18 crown stapler and it would do a good job on poplar with 1 1/2 staples but knots and hardwoods can be a problem with consistency of the depth when using 1 1/2 staples. If you have air, a good pneumatic one will allow you to handle any wood with pressure adjustments.  My old Porter  Cable pneumatic one is what I use in my shop for that reason plus it's very light.  The M18 is great for fences and siding when I don't want to drag the compressor out. 

[aigheadish]

I have a small cordless stapler that only throws like 5/8 nails or small staples. It works OK but also doesn't have enough beef to sink them all. It was a huge help for our ghetto fencing job, insulating the ceiling in the shop, and critter deterrent hardware cloth around barn floor.