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Julie’s Clock
This is a short one. My wife Julie asked for a new clock for Christmas, and naturally it went on the priority list. Basically as soon as Bea’s lingerie chest was done I started on it. Since I’ve done two other clocks recently, there wasn’t much about this one that was different and I didn’t take in-progress photos. Once challenge I gave myself was to use only stock that I had on hand, which isn’t really that much of a limitation — I have all kinds of odds and ends to use. I didn’t even start off with...
read moreLingerie Chest
Julie recently helped her mother move, and a large part of that was downsizing. She had intended to take an old lingerie cabinet to use as a dresser in the new, smaller space but, for various reasons, it didn’t make the trip. So I volunteered to make her one. In application it will be used more like a space-saving dresser, but that’s okay. I started out by searching for examples to crib from. This one in particular stood out to me: Sample lingerie chest The maple/cherry contrast looked really good to me, and the relative...
read moreThis One’s for Us
So, having finished the wedding present and really liking the way it turned out, I focused my attention on a long-overdue replacement project. We have in our foyer a large (42 inches across) mirror/clock. It’s basically a square rotated 45 degrees and the face is a big mirror with a bunch of decorative pieces glued on and a clock face in the middle. I got it over 30 years ago, from my mother, as a first anniversary gift. I just had my 11th anniversary with wife #2, and a lot of the numbers had fallen off this thing long ago. I figured...
read moreA Wedding Present
Two friends of mine, Jenni and Scott, are getting married soon. We can’t be there at the wedding (pandemic!), but I wanted to make them something special for a present. I settled on this: Original model of the clock face. As often happens, it turned out a little different, but this was the start. The idea was to have an interesting veneer in the center, with a contrasting wood for the ring and then in place of numbers have a dozen little picture frames at the clock positions. Now I’ve never done anything with veneer before, nor...
read moreA Quick Repair Job
A couple of years ago my wife Julie got me a new desk chair for a birthday gift. I loved it! It was adjustable every which way, had nice breathable mesh in the seat and back, just the right lumbar support — everything I could ask for in an office chair. Fast forward about 2 years, to March 2021. I still loved the chair, but it had developed a problem. Original chair arms The arms are of made of semi-stiff foam glued onto a harder plastic shell, and the front left cracked along that seam. I put duct tape on it to hold it for a while, but...
read moreCustom Desk and Bookcase, part 4
Okay, the first two parts of the project are now in their final spaces! Completion photo, short desk Completion photo, long desk. So now we work on the bookcase in the middle. And just in time, I have a brand new tool that will help: a Festool Domino. (More on that in another post.) The bookcase is 30″ high, like the desks it will join; 39-1/2″ wide (we measured with the desks in place to make sure and ended up coming in from the 40″ originally planned) and 20″ deep. That way the top can be a continuous workspace...
read moreCustom Desk and Bookcase, part 3
With the base set, it was time to work on the desktops. Again, I made some minor changes to the plan here, but nothing major. The left side is basically a wide, flat tabletop (for, in fact, tabletop gaming), so I just cut a plywood piece 46×30 and set it aside. For the right side, I needed a desktop piece 70×24 and a shelf piece 10×70. Originally, this shelf was going to be curved on the front edge, but that’s the only curved piece in the whole project. It looked weird. So instead I made it wider at the outside edges,...
read moreCustom Desk and Bookcase, part 2
I started from the ground up on this one. The whole undercarriage is made of solid cherry, so that stock needed to be prepped and milled in the usual way. It took a little fiddling because one of the cherry boards had some nasty internal stresses that showed up as splitting — it was interesting working around the splits to find good, usable wood. Then came joinery. I had intended to use my new Festool Domino, which I ordered from Woodcraft last April 8. However, here at the end of May, it still hasn’t shipped. Grr!! So, instead, I...
read moreCustom Desk and Bookcase, part 1
Just a quick note because it’s been two months since I posted anything. I’ve spent that time remaking parts of the fireplace mantle and refinishing Julie’s plant stand. But those aren’t sexy enough to do posts about. I’ve started a project that is, though. A friend of the family has a need for a new desk, and I had time. So, we’re going the work-for-hire route again. We designed it together, and it’s going to be a heck of a project. Desk design, drawn up in Fusion 360 It will be similar to my computer...
read moreFireplace Mantle
So here’s something a little different. A neighbor came up to me about a month ago and asked, could I make a fireplace mantle? I figured sure, why not? How hard can that be? It was to be 62″ wide, 5″ tall, and 8″ out from the wall. We sat down together and brainstormed what it should look like, and we roughly designed a secret — two drawers that would pop down when a magnetic catch was released, for secret storage. It was a fun idea, and something I’ve never done before. Model for the mantlepiece, minus the...
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