D.McDonnel "Mac"
12-13-2006, 11:04 AM
Eldest daughter does knitting/crocheting and asked for a quilt rack for Christmas on which she can display her work. I looked at several designs and used a modified version of a Kelly Mehler design from FWW (Sept/Oct 90).
It's quite a departure from my normal straight and square style of building. Almost every edge surface is rounded/curved. There are semi oval hand hold cutouts at the top of the rounded sides, the crossbars are oval in cross section and even the through tennons are oval/round. The not square tennons really threw me as I'm used to and set up well for square mortice & tennon construction.
I did learn a new method for rounding edges that worked very well. I knocked the square edges off with a block plane and then I took a strip off the end of a used up strip of drum sander paper and went cross ways over the edge of the board moving the paper in a "shoe shine" motion. This made quick work of the sanding especially inside the handle cutouts where I rounded over with a router and finished up shoe shine method with 3/4" wide strip.
I am using a Rude & Crude finishing process made popular over on the WWA forum by Dave Knipfer. A buffed out 1# shellac wash coat followed by an oil/varnish mix. It's almost done just another coat of oil/varn to go.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c166/indymac24/Emily%20Quilt%20Rack/QuiltRackFinished.jpg
Mac
It's quite a departure from my normal straight and square style of building. Almost every edge surface is rounded/curved. There are semi oval hand hold cutouts at the top of the rounded sides, the crossbars are oval in cross section and even the through tennons are oval/round. The not square tennons really threw me as I'm used to and set up well for square mortice & tennon construction.
I did learn a new method for rounding edges that worked very well. I knocked the square edges off with a block plane and then I took a strip off the end of a used up strip of drum sander paper and went cross ways over the edge of the board moving the paper in a "shoe shine" motion. This made quick work of the sanding especially inside the handle cutouts where I rounded over with a router and finished up shoe shine method with 3/4" wide strip.
I am using a Rude & Crude finishing process made popular over on the WWA forum by Dave Knipfer. A buffed out 1# shellac wash coat followed by an oil/varnish mix. It's almost done just another coat of oil/varn to go.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c166/indymac24/Emily%20Quilt%20Rack/QuiltRackFinished.jpg
Mac