George Bregar
11-29-2007, 9:38 AM
I've been lurking here for a week or so and thought I would introduce myself and jump into the fray. Great forum, great group of people. My interest in WW started 20+ years ago watching Norm on TOH and then NYW and needing to build a door into my crawlspace. Built a F&P from dimensional oak and plywood using a drill and chisel. I was hooked.
Along the way have changed to more a big iron guy, but WW has always appealed more to my engineering and match interests, so that figures. Now I mostly build Shaker and A&C style furniture. Here is some of my early work, modified from a Woodcraft Plan:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Hellrot325/missionfurn.jpg
Here is a cherry desk I made from a NYW plan, modified from Norm's plan. Little bigger, I added more functional "cubbies" like an upright file space, and used through dovetails instead of Norm's routed halfblind.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Hellrot325/AHSPHQ.jpg
Just finish a bunch of A&C stuff for my lake home, the favorite and just needing finishing is the Morris Chair. Used lock miter joints on the legs to get four QS faces (you can my my second project, that red shelf!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Hellrot325/MC.jpg
Will soon be starting to design my first "real" woodshop in my empty three car garage "up nort'" and have already found this forum a valuable tool in design tips and equipment information. Expect questions on this moving forward, and although just an amateur I'll add my two cents in when appropriate.
Along the way have changed to more a big iron guy, but WW has always appealed more to my engineering and match interests, so that figures. Now I mostly build Shaker and A&C style furniture. Here is some of my early work, modified from a Woodcraft Plan:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Hellrot325/missionfurn.jpg
Here is a cherry desk I made from a NYW plan, modified from Norm's plan. Little bigger, I added more functional "cubbies" like an upright file space, and used through dovetails instead of Norm's routed halfblind.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Hellrot325/AHSPHQ.jpg
Just finish a bunch of A&C stuff for my lake home, the favorite and just needing finishing is the Morris Chair. Used lock miter joints on the legs to get four QS faces (you can my my second project, that red shelf!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Hellrot325/MC.jpg
Will soon be starting to design my first "real" woodshop in my empty three car garage "up nort'" and have already found this forum a valuable tool in design tips and equipment information. Expect questions on this moving forward, and although just an amateur I'll add my two cents in when appropriate.