First Post - Couple Recent Projects

[John S Richards]

I haven't posted on this forum yet, but figured it was about time. What better way to put yourself out there than to post some of your work. So, here it goes.

My most recent project is this Maloof Style Occasional Chair built to be raffled off to raise money for the Red Cross Disaster Relief.


http://www.jsrwoodworking.com/occasionalchair/mahogocchairtour2_small.jpg

A complete photo gallery is at http://www.jsrwoodworking.com/occasionalchair/OccasionalChairGallery.htm

The project before that was my Maloof Rocker. Notice a trend here.;)


http://www.jsrwoodworking.com/images/SculputuredRockingChair/finalpics/chairtour2_small.jpg


A complete photo gallery is at
http://www.jsrwoodworking.com/RockingChair/RockingChairGallery.htm

Thanks for viewing and for allowing me to access this great resource.

John

Moderator removed link to website from signature line.-- TOS violation

[Jack Hogoboom]

Welcome to the 'Creek. That's one heck of a first post....

Jack

[Eddie Watkins]

WOW!! That is outstanding work. Welcome. It appears that you have much knowledge to offer.

Eddie

[Jason Tuinstra]

John, welcome! Hope this is the first post of many more to come. Glad to see you have the pic thing down already :D

[Bob Noles]

Welcome to the creek John.

That's some mighty fine work you have shared with us right out of the cage.

Hope to see more and look forward to hanging out with you.

[Don Baer]

John,
Welcome to the creek and very impressive work. I took a shop tour on your web site and you have a realy impressive shop.

[Dan Oliphant]

Super looking chair and rocker!!! Nice display of workmanship, and welcome to the creek.:)

[Kent Parker]

Beautiful work John. Looks like you took great care to get it smooth and fair. Great photos too.

Welcome to the Creek!! Looking forward to more of your work:)

Kent

[Frank Pellow]

Welcome to Saw Mill Creek John!

You have a very impressive shop and the work comming out of it is equally impressive.

I like to point out to new members that we have an extensive archive of valuable old threads here a a reasonable search facility for mining that archive (which I am told is soon the get better).

[David Duke]

Pretty impressive work!! Welcome to the creek.

[Bruce Page]

You've been wood working since 2002? Good grief!!

Welcome to the Creek. I'm looking forward to more pics of your "beginners" work! :eek: :D :eek:

[lou sansone]

welcome to the creek. gee engineers make good woodworkers too. visited you web site. nice shop tour. nice work as well. your gonna like it here

kind regards
lou

[Mike Cutler]

Welcome to Sawmill Creek John.
Very nice work and shop. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[Dan Larson]

Welcome John-- great shop and fantastic work! I checked out your website, too. I like your assembly table. Clever bit of engineering there.

Dan

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Some people just HAVE TO MAKE AN ENTRANCE!!!!!!!!!!

You certainly did, John!

Welcome to the creek.

Bruce

[Jim Becker]

Welcome to the Creek, John. 'Seems like you've been (Ma)loofing about... ;)

[John S Richards]

Thanks for the great welcome. I'm looking forward to being an active participant of this forum. It really seems like the guys that know there stuff are here. :) I hope I qualify.

John

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Welcome to the Creek John! You more than qualify. I can see we'll all have a chance to learn from you! Please be active! Again....Welcome!

[Greg Tatum]

Welcome....toured your site and it is impressive, as are your WW skills.

Greg

[Jim Dannels]

Some fine work, an awesome shop and a real nice site!
Only thing left to say is WELCOME.
Looking forward to more of your projects!

[John Bailey]

John,

Welcome to the "Creek." I loved your shop and especially the way you have arranged it. Great way to photograph your work also. Looks like you've learned a lot in a short time. As far as "qualifiying," everybody on this site qualifies and gives freely. They qualify because of their interest, willingness to share and civility. If you've been lurking, you know what a special site this is. Welcome aboard. By the way, you started off with pictures, and that's the way we like it.

John

[Dan Forman]

Really like the chairs, and you have a first rate shop there. Welcome, and hope to see and hear more.

Dan

[Vaughn McMillan]

John, way to jump into the Creek with both feet. Very nice work on the chairs in particular. And leave it to a mechanical engineer to build a motorized assembly table. (I'm gonna log that one into the "ideas to borrow" book. I could really make use of that feature, and your design is simple yet effective.)

Looking forward to seeing more of you around the SMC.

- Vaughn

[George Matthews]

Welcome to SMC!
I've browsed your site :cool: ... impressive progress and workmanship for only five years into woodworking!

[John S Richards]

John, way to jump into the Creek with both feet. Very nice work on the chairs in particular. And leave it to a mechanical engineer to build a motorized assembly table. (I'm gonna log that one into the "ideas to borrow" book. I could really make use of that feature, and your design is simple yet effective.)

Looking forward to seeing more of you around the SMC.

- Vaughn

Gotta admit that my table is probably the 3rd evolution of the design. Vanguard, woodnet Alias, iterrated on anothers design to make his table. I took that and added the motors so I could raise it without the aide of another person. Maybe you can iterate again and make the 4th evolutionary design of the table.

Thanks again to everyone for the great welcome. I definitely am a student of woodworking. I started in Aug 2001 and have been loving every minute of it. I think it has probagated to "obsession" status now though. ;)

Thanks,

John

[john whittaker]

Welcome John, very impressive work. Just found out last Friday that I will be going out of town on the 29th...which is troubling because I was planning to be in Hickory for the Klingspore's event. Would have been nice to see your work firsthand. Your joinery and finish are superb.

Again, welcome to SMC. Hokies are always welcome.

[John S Richards]

Is there anyone on this forum that is going to head to the Klingspore's woodworking show on Oct 29th. If you are, you are more than welcome to come to the woodnet get together I'm holding in my shop after the show.

The schedule is to meet at the end of my demonstration on sculptural chair making around 12 o'clock. Depart the show around 1pm and head to my shop for some discussion and BBQ. Anyone is welcome who can make it.

PM if you will be able to so I can be sure to have enough food. We already have 16 signed up to be there. It will be a great time. My only request is that you buy a raffle ticket for the occasional chair. The cost of the tickets are $5 and the red cross can use all the money that they can get.

Thanks,

John

[Mark Singer]

John, Very nice work....great joinery and finish! Welcome!

[Bob Marino]

Welcome John. Very impressive chairs, so impressive it's making me consider another hobby.;) :D ;)

Bob

[Tom Hamilton]

Welcome to the Creek. Your chairs are fabulous. Thanks for sharing them with us.

More to follow I hope. :)

Best Regards, TJH

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Wow John!! Welcome to the creek! With projects like that, we are lucky to have you!

I hope that you stick around and continue to let us know what you are up to.

[Rich Torino]

Welcome to Sawmill. Your chairs are outstanding pieces of work..
I've made a couple of chairs and I think I'd rather hit my thumb with a hammer than try another one.. BTW great photo work as well....

[John S Richards]

Welcome to Sawmill. Your chairs are outstanding pieces of work..
I've made a couple of chairs and I think I'd rather hit my thumb with a hammer than try another one.. BTW great photo work as well....

Chairmaking does test the patience. The sculpting tests you too. In the end it really is worth it, but I've definitely done some sweating and bleeding on these. Sometimes those darn angles just won't work out.... Then how do you clamp the darn thing.... :)


John