Project Completed and Bleated Gloat
Angelo in Cornwall, NY
>Below is a pic of my most recently completed project. Its an patio table in knotty cedar based loosely on plans from Woodsmith Vol 142. The plans called for a round table, but LOML and I decided that oval would be "better." This took more then a little figuring and a couple of "prototypes."
Although I did use the routah to cut the circular parts and round over the edges, I got to use hand tools on much of this project. Tenons were cut by hand, mortices chopped, boards were ripped and miters cut, miters adjusted with planes, joints and faces smoothed by planes, the splines holding the edge sections together were thicknesed with planes, etc. While I could have done it all with power tools, I feel better knowing that I used hand tools for as much as I felt comfortable doing.
The gloat is over a week old now. For my b-day my wife got me the vertias sharpeneing jig, and gave me the entire evening to work in the shop. Got a lot of the table done that night, and a good thing b/c we used it last weekend for a bbq, before I got a chance to put the finish on!
I'd lake to thank all those here who have helped me to understand my hand tools better so that I could use them they way they were meant to be used.
