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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Priscillas Bowl Sanding Done and Time to Prepare for Finishing

Hi Everyone,

It is an absolutely beautiful day here today-the air temperature is about 65 and its clear and sunny and we have about a zillion birds outside. We even had some ducks on my front yard earlier today. All in all a good day to begin finishing this bowl.

I went down to the shop and finished wet sanding the bowl up to 400 grit and then I polished the surface with maple wood shavings. Here are photos of the inside and a side view:



The bowls surface is still damp with mineral spirits. Im going to let this evaporate off and while its doing that, Im going to clean out the shop and let the dust in the air clear out. Later today Ill do a posting about the finishing process.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Prom Night for Kits Toads

Its Prom Night for Kits toads. Every year about this time, they come out of the woodwork and start to hop around and sing until they pair up ... The weathers cool too. In the last 7 days weve had snow and then 87 degrees; sunshine, then cold and crashing rain ... If you dont like the weather in Vermont, just wait a minute .... Click the pictures to enlarge them .... There are six toads in both pictures.
The frogs are done their dancing ... but the toads are having a great time still ...Kits ponds on the left there in the back yard ... aka toad and frog heavenSunset off the front porch.
Asparagus from the garden two days later ... The rosebreasted grossbeaks and the orioles are back ... The hummingbirds are in town, but not at our house yet ...
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Table for the Cockatoo Chairs

9/24/09

The table made it to its garden home in Boston

The garden was beautiful ... and everyone is happy ...

We finished the table for the cockatoo chairs yesterday ... Itll be off to Boston next week sometime with the porch furniture in the post of 9/16 ...

We first glued up two of the ends with 15 minute epoxy on the metal to wood connection. .. Click the pictures to enlrge them ...

Then we clamped the two ends together with the connectors ... Once we screwed in the short bridge pieces in the middle of the steel parts, the table became incredible rigid ... We added the small steel pads at the base of the legs as a design detail and to protect the end grain of the legs where they will sit on the stone patio ...

Update 9 7 ... waiting for approval of the finish samples ...

Last week we delivered the Cockatoo Chairs to their new home in Boston, and a beauty of a home it is. An H.H. Richardson ( great bio of the architect on Wikipedia) shingle style design from the 1880s. Beautiful home, beautiful furnishings, beautiful artwork and gardens. The chairs have landed in a VERY special place for sure. They are residing in the recessed area in the lower right corner of the photo below, near the front door, overlooking the garden ... perfect spot ... Now for a table to go with them. We used, as a starting point, an Arts & Crafts style table that the client has been using there previously with other chairs ... We made a couple sketches and today we made a quick mockup of one end of the table to work out the more mysterious construction details. Legs are mahogany; the aprons are 3/8 x 1.5" steel with wood verticals. The top will be slats of mahogany in a mitered frame ... Were considering 3/8 x 1.5" metal pads where the table sits on the stone terrace and perhaps some other small decorative metal details which well either mockup or discuss with the client ... More later .... Click the photos to enlarge them ...

1883 H. H. Richardson designed home with serious wisteria

Sketches ... The client selected the bottom one

Our two dimensional mockup elevation exploring how the curved and straight steel elements will join to the wood legs. The curved pieces will have to be mitered once they enter the leg as they are nearly as wide as the leg is thick ... Well do a test, but after fitting them up, we imagine that well epoxy them iside the leg using a West System product of some kind. We rolled the steel into acurve using our new Boss ring roller, an amazing piece of equipment.

The straight top pieces will also have to be mitered in the corners and then screwed into the end grain of the mahogany legs

The elevation stretched out using photoshop.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Wood Shed Again Last time for a while


Ma ... on the new porchette ....

Still working on it ... My firewood arrived Saturday, and construction will have to take a break until thats stacked in the shed. Fortunately, we were able to get the little bit of inside framing work done this past weekend and were good to go ... Well finish the outside over the course of the summer, with the work sprinkled in at a little more leisurely (if thats possible considering I started back in April) pace ... All work, (even if its fun work), and no play makes Jack a dull boy .... Click the photos to enlarge them ...
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Woodworking projects for cub scouts

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

tools for woodworking

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