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Thread: Summer's almost over--so what are your fall/winter woodworking plans?

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    Summer's almost over--so what are your fall/winter woodworking plans?

    I can't believe this coming weekend is the last before Labor Day Weekend. I have a huge todo list with a few woodworking related items on it. First and foremost is building a maple dresser for my daughter to match the bed, table, and bookshelf I've built the past few years. We want to give that to her for Christmas just over 4 months from now.

    Also on my list:
    - Finish the rebuild of a 1965 Powermatic Model 30 belt/disc sander
    - Rebuild a early 40's Parks Planer
    - Kitchen counter redo
    - Rebuild one of our kitchen cabinets from the usual 2 doors & 2 drawers configuration to one with three wide drawers.
    - Crown molding and an under-cabinet wine bottle holder for the kitchen.

    Maybe a new entertainment center too if we end up getting a new TV instead of just buying the digital converter box.


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    Oh, my...the list is long, but here are a few:


    • Tack Box for Nastia
    • Bedside tables for both Nastia and Alesya
    • A side table from the beautiful English brown oak I bought from Hearne for the purpose awhile back
    • A media cabinet
    • A buffet like table with shelving under it for books to go in the great room
    • I should really finish the Nakashima Mira style chairs I started back in 2003...
    • Finish the wall cabinets for my new office that go over the credenza
    • etc, etc, etc...
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    All the projects that I currently have started and get sidetracked from completing..... - is that not everything?

    In reality -

    -Cedar-lined chest for my daughters birthday
    -Finish the Drying area for my walnut stash
    -Get the rest of the walnut and apricot slabbed out
    -cabinets in the mud room
    -a toolchest with some of my cull cut collection
    -finish the walls on the utility trailer
    -three picture frames
    - ...........

    It never ends - which is fun!
    Sawdust is some of the best learning material!

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    I'm building a walnut blanket chest for my daughter, with her help. At the rate I get time in the shop I'll be astonished if we finish it by Christmas!

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    Oh, my list is endless. This is most of the stuff I remeber.

    -Finish a full basement
    -10ft built in/book shelves/tv entertainment unit
    -2 columns to go around posts
    -laundry room cabinets
    -Fish tank stands for 13 tanks, 3 stands total
    -10ft wall of cabinets for "the fishroom"
    -Hang a full kitchen
    -Trim out the house
    -Build a full set of furniture for bedroom.

    I think thats it for now. Between school, side jobs, work I WILL find time

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    Wink

    For me, the good news is that I still have nearly 3 months of good weather to finish my undone summer projects!
    The bad news is that list includes cabinets for the laundry room, building a storage shed for the kayaks and reroofing the house.

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    I don't know...but here's what I have to do it with!

    Bloodwood, Tulipwood, African Mahogany, Cocobolo, Jatoba, Macassar Ebony, Gabon Ebony, Goncola-Alves, Padauk, Birds Eye Maple, Bubinga, Wenge & Yellowheart, I have a bunch of Oak, Walnut & Maple up in the loft.... We'll see what the season brings...
    Last edited by Ed Sallee; 08-19-2008 at 6:53 PM.

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    My list is long as well.

    - Finish current fireplace mantle project
    - Build an ocassinal table out of the insane solid walnut and waterfall bubinga veneer I got at Hearne a while back. This one is for my mom so I definitely need to finish that one.
    - Wife and I started on a bathroom remodel last weekend so there is quite a bit of case-work there.
    - Built-ins for the family room
    - I plan on finishing a few humidors that I have started. I almost had them done until Bill Wyko had to go and spoil everything by posting those magnificent humidors he has been building. Now I need to hop them up or I can't even call mine humidors.
    - This all needs to happen before spring arrives again as wife and I plan on building a new deck.
    - Oh, and the kids need desks for school work and, of course, they need to match the other stuff I built for their rooms.

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    Build the remaining 9 dining room chairs and finish all 10.

    Rearrange my shop; sell the Jet Contractor saw and Jet DC. Replace with an Oneida 3 HP Gorilla and a 5 hp SawStop.

    I'll be a happy camper when the above is finished...then a walnut corner cabinet built after Lonnie Bird's antique copy and a walnut jewelry cabinet for my wife.

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    My spring and summer has been consumed with a fairly extensive house remodel project. Good news is the "butt work" is almost done.

    This fall I will building the vanity for the bathroom. The intent is a bowfront vanity in the Art Nouveau style. Woods will be Curly Peruvian Walnut and possibly cocobolo, or domestic walnut that has been ebonized.

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    Preliminary plans of what I'd like to do are probably too long to go into.
    What will actually get done, well this little . sums it up!!!
    Been around power equipment all my life and can still count to twenty one nakey

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    hmm.. lots of things i would LIKE to do, but no clue how much i will actually achieve:

    -build closet in hallway dead space
    -refloor living room, hallway and entry rooms
    -paint living room walls/ceiling
    -take down wallpaper in kitchen
    -expand our garden (need more space for plants!)
    -put a small stone pad next to the shed to store the smoker on

    er... maybe if i am lucky I will get to start on end tables and a wall table for the living room, and a new coffee table.. will see
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    Play kitchen for Megan (19 mo/old)
    Adirondak chairs and table
    New Bed for us.
    Adding a seat for the picnic table for megan.
    Working on reorganizing the shop!!!

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    Am presently working on a non-woodworking home upgrade right now (3x5 walk-in shower) for the upstairs bath. Probably late this fall I'll start on a new kitchen for LOML. Will either be in quartersawn oak or pecan, we haven't decided yet. I have enough of either air dryed and waiting to go to the kiln.

    I will also be finishing some built up trim on the interior windows and doors. I did a couple a while back, just to see how we would like it and now its time to do the rest.

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    somewhere I got the crazy Idea that I wanted to make my mother in law an inlaid serving tray. Unfortunately her kitchen motif is grapes and vines. Anyone care to guess how many 1/2" circles of purpleheart veneer you have to cut to make a bunch of grapes! It's not going to be a pretty site.

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