Weekend projects

Re: Weekend projects

Brad in Ottawa

>You are right Ernie, going to be a great weekend. Too cold here to worry about yard work and such. My wife is off to Boston to run in the Marathon on Monday, I don't have the vacation time to go with her so I'll be all by my lonesome without a thing to do. Don't cry for me as I will manage just fine!

Plan on picking up some air dried cherry tomorrow and possibly some curly maple.

Still working on my drysink.

Putting together a drawer pull for some lucky recipient!

And of course watching the Senators vs. the Maple Leafs.

Have a great one!

Brad

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Jeremy Osner

>Weather's going to be beautiful out here -- perfect for tailgating at the CRAFTS auction, and for Sylvia's first day of soccer practice later on. ("Soccer practice" might be overstating it a bit as it will be a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds who have never heard of the game before -- more like "kids running around, occasionally making contact with a soccer ball".)

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Robert Weber

>This is the attic bedroom weekend for me. When we bought the house four years ago the owner's son was living in the attic remodeled into a nice bedroom. We now want to move my oldest (daughter, who will be 8 bext Friday) into it so that we can get the baby out of our room. However, she didn't like the poisonous, exotic frog wallpaper border. She also has allergies and asthma so the wall-to-wall carpet has to go (it's pretty nasty, anyway).

So, we almost have the border off (it's stubborn), and will paint on Saturday (I hope). Then, maybe as early as Sunday, pull up the carpet and lay the laminate wood flooring.

Someday I will finish with the house/handyman projects and be able to get back to my tool cabinet (that's almost finished!)

Rob in Peoria

Wood shavings on the floor! Wood shavings on the floor!

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Dale Stansbery

>Heading for an auction tomorrow. It's listed as over 200 planes. A set of 1 through 8 including halves to sell as a set, then individually to see which brings highest $. They also mentioned corrugated, but I couldn't tell if that meant the set included both flat soled and corrugated in the set which would double the count from 2 on up. Anyway it will be interesting to see planes I'll never be able to own.

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Kevin French, Warner, NH

>Pack'n Trash'n, and Cry'n. Sign on our new house a week from TODAY. I have a 4000sq' barn FILLED with things that "I MIGHT NEED SOMEDAY" that now must fit into about 2000sq'!

I have a truck load of metal loaded for the dump tomorrow.

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Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>I've posted a request for comments on the Critiques board. This is my wkend project, if I decide it's sound enough to go ahead with. My wife's been asking for this for about a month & she deserves whatever she wants so one way or 'tuther I'll get it done ;>)

18th Century Cupboard *LINK*

Todd Nebel - North Wales, PA

>Hello, I just finished an 18th Century Cupboard today and will be cleaning up the shop for the next project this weekend (Gustav Stickley Magazine Rack). Please visit my webpage and view the pictures of the cupboard, click on a picture to enlarge it and read the details. It was a project featured in the Novemeber 2003 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine. I stayed really close to plan and got to experiment with milk paint.

Due to the M&T work on the face frame and the beaded hunched M&T tumbstone doors I gave my handtools a good workout. I'm not ready to do an entire piece without power tools, but find that I really enjoy taking my time with the handtools more and more each piece.

Thanks for viewing.

Todd


http://homepage.mac.com/nebel5/NebelHome/PhotoAlbum34.html

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Hi Rob

Like many, my woodworking interests evolved out of handyman efforts in restoring a house. The ongoing saga of our lives seems to be finding a balamce between the house- and the shop projects. It is remarkable how each wants to demand top priority at the same time!

It is Saturday morning here. My weekend is about to kick off with a visit to a local salvage yard to stock up on timber. I am hoping to find a little Blackwood and Jarrah.

Project-wise, try and finish the raised panel doors on a wardrobe (that began as a curbside find, and that I have completely rebuilt), and restore a few chisels I have on the shelf. Of course, there are all the Western Red Ceder windows along two sides of the house that need to be stripped and re-oiled!

Regards from Perth

Derek

I like that

Jack from Maine

>That is a nice looking cupboard. I like everything about it. I haven't done anything with paint yet. Still working on getting the wood to look acceptable without sandpaper. Maybe I'll attempt milk paint on a small project and see how it goes.

What method did you use to raise the panels? Learning to do that by hand is one of my priorities.Thanks for posting.---Crackerjack

More Clocks

Jack from Maine

>I delivered the clock I made to the customer today.Instead of taking it he gave it back with a latch he wants installed on the lower door. He was so pleased he gave me another clock to build. I came home with two pieces of glass ,a movement, a dial and a book with clock pictures. The new clock is all rectangular. Red oak on this one.

Oh well,back to the shop.

Have a great weekend---Crackerjack

P.S. Ernie, the drawer pull is in the mail

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Todd Nebel - North Wales, PA

>Hello Jack,

Not much to the raised panel - done on a tablesaw. I think I mentioned in my post that I'm doing more and more these days with handtools and enjoying those phases of the project best, but I'm still no where near doing a large project completely by hand. I suspect that with a really sharp block plane you could produce a raised panel, or there's specialty plane out there for that purpose. Let me know if you come across a better answer.

Thanks,

Todd

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Jack from Maine

>The ones I've done in the past were with one of those screaming three inch bits in a r****r table.I made jigs and guards and clamp things to keep me as far away from that finger eating monster as possible. It worked fine but I don't want to have to risk bodily harm to do woodworking. I got an LN skew rabbett plane with the nicker and I'm gonna give it a shot. So far everything I've tried with hand tools that looked near impossible turned out to be so simple in practice that I'm encouraged to keep trying.Besides,this way is alot more fun.---Crackerjack

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Oooohh, it was for a customer. I thought it was for your house. Good to hear that the Customer liked it.

Making a second one? Sounds like you are on your way to being a clockmaker!

Don

my own clock

Jack from Maine

>For now I'll have to stick to walmart battery operated wall clocks but soon..I know now I can make my own but the movements are a little harder to come up with.I had his on my wall for a few days and it looked good there. Maybe I can work something out with him in the future.---Jack