I started building a small shed roof addition to my woodshop. It was going to just be a porch at first (hence the slightly odd framing) but I decided to wall it in. Just 8x12 but it doubles my floor space and will be easier and cheaper to heat all winter.
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Your endgrain is like your bellybutton. Yes, I know you have it. No, I don't want to see it.
working on a pair of morris chairs. Man, these things are gonna be heavy.
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Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
Until more lumber arrives...this was the last project built this year..
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Just a tool chest...
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And I had to resaw what scraps I had left to build it...
This is what I’m working on. My proof of concept on top. Still have much to do. All hard maple. Hoping it will punch far above its weight.
I'm giving a check ride today, if it does not run long I'll stop by the local woodstore and pick the first load of Alder for the new shop cabinets and start prep and layout Sunday. If it runs long, then it will be Monday before I can get the wood. Anyway within the next few days I will start on changing out the shop's cabinets. I expect it will be a PITA with pulling the old ones off, finding somewhere to store all the stuff and fitting the new cabinets into the available space. BTW, the tool trays may become more than dust and shaven catchers for awhile.
It will be good to get back in the shop doing something other than pushing iron around on stones.
ken
City delays are giving me lots of time to build more dreams into my as-yet-to-be-erected shop . . . does that count?
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
A lot of work develops from dreams. A lot of my time on projects is spent in contemplative mode.
One recent project to fill up some spare time was to find a neater way two stow my plumb bobs. Now one of them has its holder:
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The opening was cut with a forsner bit closely matching the diameter of the bob:
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One down, one to go.
There are also a couple of other projects going on. The tomatoes are getting ripe so that takes precedence.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I don't know if this counts but I'm recycling some old furniture, an oak dresser and maple desk. The boards I'm getting are 13/16" thick and fairly wide. The desk is solid maple but wasn't designed for today's computer chairs so it will become stock for shop projects and secondary wood. The oak dresser supplied me with enough aged oak to build a simple desk. I'm still working on disassembling but will start the desk pretty soon I think. I posted the design beginnings in the design forum but may as well post it here as well.
I took the height from my work desk. It doesn't leave much stock for the drawer. My question for you furniture builders is, can I cut a center section from the apron and add a drawer? Can I make the desk a little taller and the apron wider?
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