Michael Adelong
12-31-2005, 1:06 AM
Hello everyone. I've been working on my first piece of furniture, so I thought that I would share my progress so far.
I apologize for the picture quality. My camera is not very good. My shop is in the basement with 4 only regular bulbs for lighting, so it always looks like a dungeon in the pictures. It's really not as dark and dingy as it looks. I stuck some plywood from the crate my bandsaw came in behind it for tonight's pictures. (BTW: You guys post some nice looking pictures. Can anyone recommend an economical digital camera that takes better flash pictures for posting than these?)
Last night, I started glue up of the grid assembly (first 2 pics). In the FWW article, the author glued the 6 blocks in between the 3 grid runners, and then ran the whole assembly across the table saw to cut the notches that rest in the notches in the arched stretchers. Is it just me, or did this procedure look unsafe? I opted to clamp all 3 runners together without the blocks to cut the notches in the ends. I'm sure it was more work, but it felt safer to me. I glued in 3 blocks last night, and 3 more along with the last runner this morning.
Tonight, I glued up the base. I took the clamps off briefly to take the last 2 pics. The grid assembly is just sitting on the arched stretchers for now. I'll glue and screw them in place tomorrow morning when I start work on the top. As you can see, I had to "load test" it for sturdiness - It'll be fine. :D
Advice from this newbie to other newbies. A clear, flat work surface is a must for this sort of thing. Working on anything else seems to cause shop rash on all of the parts. You just can't help dropping a leg onto a clamp sittiing on the work surface every now and then. DAMHIKT :mad:
Thanks for looking,
Mike
I apologize for the picture quality. My camera is not very good. My shop is in the basement with 4 only regular bulbs for lighting, so it always looks like a dungeon in the pictures. It's really not as dark and dingy as it looks. I stuck some plywood from the crate my bandsaw came in behind it for tonight's pictures. (BTW: You guys post some nice looking pictures. Can anyone recommend an economical digital camera that takes better flash pictures for posting than these?)
Last night, I started glue up of the grid assembly (first 2 pics). In the FWW article, the author glued the 6 blocks in between the 3 grid runners, and then ran the whole assembly across the table saw to cut the notches that rest in the notches in the arched stretchers. Is it just me, or did this procedure look unsafe? I opted to clamp all 3 runners together without the blocks to cut the notches in the ends. I'm sure it was more work, but it felt safer to me. I glued in 3 blocks last night, and 3 more along with the last runner this morning.
Tonight, I glued up the base. I took the clamps off briefly to take the last 2 pics. The grid assembly is just sitting on the arched stretchers for now. I'll glue and screw them in place tomorrow morning when I start work on the top. As you can see, I had to "load test" it for sturdiness - It'll be fine. :D
Advice from this newbie to other newbies. A clear, flat work surface is a must for this sort of thing. Working on anything else seems to cause shop rash on all of the parts. You just can't help dropping a leg onto a clamp sittiing on the work surface every now and then. DAMHIKT :mad:
Thanks for looking,
Mike