Today's Project

Re: Today's Project

Alan Bierbaum

>Neat work. Hard to tell from the small photo; but it appears that you made the left side piece.

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jim_reed@marietta

>U R correct. I guess the cat's chew mark on the right side gave it away.

Nope I can't tell

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>But it has to be one of the sides.

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William Duffield on the Cohansey

>You asked how you would shape the top of the side with power tools, I think. There are two ways I might do it: Both involve making a cut close to the line with the bandsaw. In this case, it would be almost as quick to do it with a rip panel saw. Then, I would smooth out the cut with a jointer. Again, since it is such a short cut, using whatever bench plane happened to be closest at hand, and sharp, would be just about as easy. In this case, I think the #7 would stay on the shelf, because it's a little too heavy. Smoothing the transition and breaking the edges is definitely a job for hand tools: I'd probably use a file, followed by a block plane and card scraper. Of course, sand paper would work, in a mostly power shop.

Pretty good

jim_reed@marietta

>I think those power techniques would work well. I was just struck by how appropriate the plane seemed. The final piece was only 1/2" thick and 4 1/4" wide at the big end. I just shuddered at the thought of running it thru the jointer (sooo close to those spinning blades).

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William Duffield on the Cohansey

>That's why lots of knuckle-draggers call the bandsaw their "Neanderbuddy" -- it's one of the forked-tailed apprentices that gives the least offense, at least when properly tuned.

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Roy from Cincy

>Jim

What kind of stain did you use? How hard was it to match the color?

Got lucky

jim_reed@marietta

>I am no stain genius; I just got lucky. Swiped it down with Special Walnut Minwax and the tone was perfect, just not the right shade. I followed that up with a swipe of Red Mahogany and it matched perfectly. Given the choice of being smart or lucky, I will pick lucky anyday.

"Sheraton/country" ?

Tom Sontag - St. Louis

>Your picture does not show us the feet, but I have always associated Sheraton with a fancier finer look than what you have there (thinner legs, perhaps fluted etc.). Not exactly sure what "Sheraton/country" could mean really since they are at opposite ends of the "fineness" spectrum in my mind.

The veneered drawer front might cloud the distinction a bit, but my first thought was you had a shaker style piece. Now that is a label that goes well with simpler "country" manufactures.

Nice work. Thanks for showing us.

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William Duffield on the Cohansey

>Farmer and farmer's wife take buggy into big city to sell this year's crop and buy provisions. Farmer's wife see's latest "Sheraton" style table. Since price is more than the farmer made selling the whole crop, he tells her he can build her one just like it this winter when they get back to the farm. He knows she doesn't have a digital camera image of the one she saw, or even a glossy color catalog, and probably not even a pencil drawing. What he builds her a couple months later, in the latest fashion, no less, and completely from memory, pleases her completely.

Exactly

jim_reed@marietta

>That is a pretty fair picture. High style *city furniture* was copied in the boondocks. Lacking all the specialized tools and helpers, the country cabinetmaker was forced to simplify. If he was good at it, the *spirit* of the original style is still there.