Narayan Nayar
03-24-2008, 2:13 AM
There's a bit of story here...hope you don't mind indulging me.
A good friend of mine helped me get my garage shop together over the last two years--helped lift the cyclone onto its wall mount, helped install ducting, provided motivational support (in the form of jeering, but I'll take what I can get) when everything was in boxes, etc. Sometime last year he said he wanted to make a hallway table and I jumped at the chance to help him. He took me up on my offer but politely refused my design help. A few weeks after that, he announced he was going to make a hallway table out of 2x4s and not change the basic dimension of the lumber. He works with metal and likes mass. I rolled my eyes and off we went to the BORG and came home with lots of green doug fir 2x4s, which I taught him how to cut into pieces and sticker.
Those 2x4s were stacked on the side of my house for about 3 weeks before he decided to move...from California back to eastern Canada. I offered to help him load up the 2x4s but he "graciously" donated them to me. They then sat stacked on the side of my house for another 4 months.
My son (http://www.flickr.com/photos/etherfarm/tags/raybueno/), who is now 2, absolutely adores this friend of mine. So when I was trying to decide how best to get rid of, I mean use, these 2x4s, I thought it would be a fitting tribute to my son's relationship with my friend to make my son's first table and chairs out of them. I made them a little large so he could grow into them.
So here they are. Everything was Dominoed and after rough dimensioning, just about all surfaces were handplaned. On this project I got to try out my new Bridge City Toolworks HP-6v2, which did the roundovers on the legs (it arrived too late to do the top and the seat bottoms). Everything in these pieces came from a 2x4.
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Though my son absolutely loves the desk, let's just say it's the last piece of furniture I make with construction grade doug fir :). Though I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised to see a bit of chatoyance through in parts of the top.
84813
Seems like most of my work is out of construction lumber these days... Can't wait to get to that small stash of cherry and maple I've had "acclimating" for over a year now...
A good friend of mine helped me get my garage shop together over the last two years--helped lift the cyclone onto its wall mount, helped install ducting, provided motivational support (in the form of jeering, but I'll take what I can get) when everything was in boxes, etc. Sometime last year he said he wanted to make a hallway table and I jumped at the chance to help him. He took me up on my offer but politely refused my design help. A few weeks after that, he announced he was going to make a hallway table out of 2x4s and not change the basic dimension of the lumber. He works with metal and likes mass. I rolled my eyes and off we went to the BORG and came home with lots of green doug fir 2x4s, which I taught him how to cut into pieces and sticker.
Those 2x4s were stacked on the side of my house for about 3 weeks before he decided to move...from California back to eastern Canada. I offered to help him load up the 2x4s but he "graciously" donated them to me. They then sat stacked on the side of my house for another 4 months.
My son (http://www.flickr.com/photos/etherfarm/tags/raybueno/), who is now 2, absolutely adores this friend of mine. So when I was trying to decide how best to get rid of, I mean use, these 2x4s, I thought it would be a fitting tribute to my son's relationship with my friend to make my son's first table and chairs out of them. I made them a little large so he could grow into them.
So here they are. Everything was Dominoed and after rough dimensioning, just about all surfaces were handplaned. On this project I got to try out my new Bridge City Toolworks HP-6v2, which did the roundovers on the legs (it arrived too late to do the top and the seat bottoms). Everything in these pieces came from a 2x4.
84809
84810
84812
Though my son absolutely loves the desk, let's just say it's the last piece of furniture I make with construction grade doug fir :). Though I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised to see a bit of chatoyance through in parts of the top.
84813
Seems like most of my work is out of construction lumber these days... Can't wait to get to that small stash of cherry and maple I've had "acclimating" for over a year now...