Watcha Makin'?

[Old Greenhorn]

Looking really good Bill! I especially like the molding under the top, that looks slick. Yes, the color match on this has always been the challenge, but I am sure you will work through enough options to work out a good one. Every project has a hump in it, right? :D

[aigheadish]

Reminiscent of the work Tom is doing, I volunteered to make a cremation urn for a lady at work. I'll have to scroll back through this thread to see all the box ideas. If I've made a box it's been a looong time ago, so we'll see how it goes.

[Broncman]

Working in my Rob Cosman style workbench.
Got to drill dog holes next. Sjoeberg vise. Going to add a leg vise as well.


 

[Brad_bb]

@firefighter ontheside   Who's the "judge"?  A real judge?  If so, a judge cannot have a standing desk, they have to sit on the bench.  That's what I heard.

[21incher]

@firefighter ontheside   Who's the "judge"?  A real judge?  If so, a judge cannot have a standing desk, they have to sit on the bench.  That's what I heard.

No toe kick area so it probably just a fancy bookcase.

[Don P]

I can't recall being in a position where I had any desire to tell the judge to sit down  :D

I think I remember it was for her office.

[firefighter ontheside]

A federal judge in ST Louis for her chambers(office).  She explicitly told me it didn't need to have a toe kick space, but I overhung the front by a few inches to provide a little space.  She has her normal, large sitting desk in her chambers and says she slouches too much, so wants this desk to stand at and use her laptop on occasion.  Her laptop will connect to a docking station and there will be a separate keyboard and monitors.

thanks Tom.  I wish I would have made the trim under the top a little bigger, but otherwise I'm happy with it.

[beenthere]

We (at least me) don't think much about a toe kick space until we start standing at a place that doesn't have one.  :

[aigheadish]

The genius's that designed my house put a vent right in the toe kick space under the kitchen sink. It's quite lovely to have warm air blowing on your feet there.

[firefighter ontheside]

maybe in an effort to keep pipes from freezing and not necessarily to keep your feet warm.

[doc henderson]

we have double sinks in our bathroom and a vent for each.  with the woodstove going, the forced air upstairs does not come on.

[21incher]

We have one in the cabinet kick below the kitchen sink also. Actually there is one under  every  window  in the house so that's probably the  reason.  Works great even with  the furnace off to circulate the woodstove heat with the blower on low. My dog hogs the sink one  ;D

[doc henderson]

helps keep the temps even throughout the room.  on radiant floor heat, the outer perimeter of a system the pex is every 6 inches, and then 1 foot in the more center of the room.

[Don P]

Look up electric kickspace heaters, you can even retrofit one if the client was spoiled in another life  :D. My partner did a radiant one brought up into the toespace from the floor loop.

[tule peak timber]

A molded nose cone for my boat with a receiver to tow it by hand or eventually an ATV. It snaps on and off and is very light weight.

 

 

 

 

[Walnut Beast]

Looks fantastic!!

[doc henderson]

 

 

 

table for Dallas and his wife Amy to set coffee on between these two chairs.



 

 

Crosses delivered and installed.  RIP Sammy the shop cat.



 

 

 

[doc henderson]

My buddy Jim needed an industrial rustic bird feeder.  He now works form home and watches birds out the window.  He came over and I got a frozen plank out of the pile.  It will hang by two cables that course through the lid to keep it in place.   there is also a routed recess on the bottom.  They have 4 children, but their first was a stillborn (so five) and the story of the dragonfly who leaves his home in the water to fly around the rest of his days is one his wife likes.  So.



 

 

 

so then the extra touch.



 

 

 

 

[Downstream]

Made another washboard table.  I use the old National glass washboards as legs and then add live edge supports/top/shelf.  Original design was for a record player table and record storage on the shelf.  also nice side accent table.  This one is made with walnut top/shelf.


 


 

[Old Greenhorn]

That is a neat idea! Nice job!

Pretty cool bird feeder too Doc!

These FF folks are SO talented!

[Downstream]

I agree that we have many talented people on this board.  I see a lot of great ideas from everyone.  It is fun to see all the different things we and our customers make with the trees we process.  My biggest problem is I'm down to less than 10 live edge slabs to play with and many more ideas.

[dougtrr2]

Doc, it is early and I haven't had my coffee yet.  Could you clarify how the feeder hangs and how you fill it?  You said "It will hang by two cables that course through the lid to keep it in place."  I just can't envision how that works.

My dad used to feed birds a lot.  Our standard January birthday present to him was bags of bird seed.

Thanks.

Doug in SW IA

[doc henderson]

cable is not shown in the pic, but I drilled at an angle through the lid and top of the two wood sides, exited into the center compartment.  I fed the cable through the lid and side then crimped an aluminum feral to the end so it could not slip through.  the lid had a recess routed in the underside shaped like the top of the feeder.  if hung by the two cables from a soffit then the lid can lift off and slide up the two cabled to fill it with feed.  so, you do not have to set the lid somewhere.  wind cannot blow it off.  hope that makes sense.  hard to verbalize.  I can get pics if needed.

[dougtrr2]

Got it!

Thanks,

Doug in SW IA

[firefighter ontheside]

That's a pretty slick boat device, Rob.  Is that to go with your RV or somewhere at home?

Cool stuff Doc.  I'm glad you're getting some shop time.

I delivered the standing desk to the Judge's office this morning.  We got a little snow last night and it was 2 deg this morning.  I was happy the loading dock at the court building was inside.  Not heated, but at least indoors.  Got the desk up and into the office in about 15 minutes.  The loading dock security guy told me I had 30 minutes.  I was happy with the color match to her office.