Matt Wachter
12-18-2006, 9:53 AM
...26 of them to be exact. I got them done last Thrusday, but didn't get around to taking pictures until this weekend. This was the latest that I have ever started working on Christmas presents, the most I've made, and the earliest I've finished. Go figure.
A little bit about the boards. Maple, Cherry, and purpleheart. I wanted walnut, but all my supplier had was sapwood and that was lighter than the cherry, so I decided against that. Finish was a bar of pariffan wax and a bottle of mineral oil heated together. I found that it went on best if the oil was just hot enough that it wouldn't burn my fingers, but if it was too cool, it the wax would cool to quickly. Buffed out with a paper towel.
I am in the camp of "this is a great way to get a new tool" and I was happy getting a roller glue bottle as that tool, but ended up with a belt sander. My work has a Performax 16/32 sander and I had planned on using that until I went to check it out from work to find out that they had tore it apart and made a denibber for casework and cabinet doors! So I did end up with a belt sander for Christmas.
With one week to go, I still have 10 keepsake boxes to complete, and a wine rack to start and finish. In the words of Norm, "I think we can get it finished." :)
Enough with the talking...here are the pictures.
Merry Christmas!
1st picture is with the flash
2nd is without
3rd is a closeup of one of the boards
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/wachtervision/2006%20Christmas/PICT4701.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/wachtervision/2006%20Christmas/PICT4702.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/wachtervision/2006%20Christmas/PICT4703.jpg
A little bit about the boards. Maple, Cherry, and purpleheart. I wanted walnut, but all my supplier had was sapwood and that was lighter than the cherry, so I decided against that. Finish was a bar of pariffan wax and a bottle of mineral oil heated together. I found that it went on best if the oil was just hot enough that it wouldn't burn my fingers, but if it was too cool, it the wax would cool to quickly. Buffed out with a paper towel.
I am in the camp of "this is a great way to get a new tool" and I was happy getting a roller glue bottle as that tool, but ended up with a belt sander. My work has a Performax 16/32 sander and I had planned on using that until I went to check it out from work to find out that they had tore it apart and made a denibber for casework and cabinet doors! So I did end up with a belt sander for Christmas.
With one week to go, I still have 10 keepsake boxes to complete, and a wine rack to start and finish. In the words of Norm, "I think we can get it finished." :)
Enough with the talking...here are the pictures.
Merry Christmas!
1st picture is with the flash
2nd is without
3rd is a closeup of one of the boards
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/wachtervision/2006%20Christmas/PICT4701.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/wachtervision/2006%20Christmas/PICT4702.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/wachtervision/2006%20Christmas/PICT4703.jpg