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Outdoor Plant Stand build, part 2
Embellishments The wide, flat tray ends and side pieces scream for some kind of ornamentation. I debated pyrography (wood burning), but I haven’t held a burning tool in 40+ years and, while I did pretty well in junior high art class, I am in no way a graphic designer. I also have zero experience at carving, scrolling, or intarsia. What can I say? Usually I let the wood do the talking. Since this is meant to hold potted flowers, I figured some kind of flower motif would be in order. It needed to be recognizable at a distance, yet...
read moreOutdoor Plant Stand build, part 1
Julie’s plant stand started out as a pile of boards. For this design I needed three different stock thicknesses: 4/4 for the tray sides and slats, 5/4 for the sides and lattice strips, and 8/4 for the frame and feet. I spent an afternoon planing the stock to 3/4, 1 inch, and 1-1/2 inches thick and truing up an edge, and then cut my part blanks to rough dimensions. Tray One of the more interesting aspects of this design are the ends of the tray section, where the potted plants will go. They are vaguely crown-shaped, 13 inches...
read moreOutdoor Plant Stand design
Way back in March, when spring was right around the corner, I designed this for my wife Julie: My original plan was to have it done for her birthday in May. That was before I knew I needed surgery on my left foot, which took me out of the workshop for almost four months. So here it is, late summer, and I’m finally getting around to it. The purpose of this piece is to sit on the front porch, look pretty, and let Julie place potted flowers in it. The design criteria were pretty simple: it had to look nice; it had to put the flowers at...
read moreOutfeed Storage Unit
My latest shop project is designed to fix a long-standing problem: I built two of those carts almost 20 years ago, with the intention that they would help me keep things organized and handy. They really haven’t worked out well. The middle shelf is adjustable, but because of the depth it’s a pain in the butt to get things in and out so about half the middle shelf and almost all of the lower goes unused while the top is overstuffed with loose hand tools and accessories. They are also annoying to roll around because I used two...
read moreJoint Fail
The other day I re-entered my workshop for the first time in over a month. I’m still not ready for serious woodworking — my foot is healing up nicely, but full weight bearing, carrying, and handling myself around power tools is still a few weeks off — but I had a repair job to do. The patient was Julie’s bra rack, which I built about 3 years ago (May 2014): We recently replaced the 20-year-old carpeting in our bedroom and upstairs landing with hardwood flooring. Two days’ worth of banging and sawing (by...
read moreForced Downtime
It’s been very quiet here for the past couple of months. I actually do have a project in progress, but it’s not complete and it won’t be for a while because I am temporarily unable to use the shop. I had surgery recently to repair a torn anterior tibialis tendon in my left foot. The procedure went well, but I’m still several weeks from being able to bear weight on my left foot. When you can’t stand without mechanical assistance and need both hands just to cross the room, furniture-making is not a very safe...
read moreKing Bed in Cherry and Walnut, addendum
The new bed wasn’t really finished until we had it assembled, of course. And that depended on us getting a new mattress for it, since our then-current mattress was 15 years old and showing it. In the process of shopping, one of the salesmen asked about the bed frame and I showed him the completion photo. Talk turned to the topic of slats; I had two maple boards that I figured would be sufficient. By modern standards, though, I was way off — the salesmen we eventually bought the mattress from told me that it is normal now...
read moreDiagonal Clock
After completing the cherry and walnut bedroom set, I had a fair amount of leftover 5/4 cherry in the shop and a desire to do something quick and a little different. The design for this wall clock is largely derived from the lattice work I did on that bed (both in the geometric look and the quantity of long, thin walnut scraps I had left!) and the scrap wood tablet stand I made about a year ago. The clock body is made up of nine cherry blocks, 4″ x 4″ and 1 inch thick, joined together with strips of walnut 1 inch wide and 3/4...
read moreKing Bed in Cherry and Walnut, completion
Once I had my base pieces finished I made the walnut lattices that fit inside the cherry frames. Sanding everything took almost a full day, thanks mostly to the tedium of breaking the edges on all those lattice strips. The simplest parts were the side rails. All they needed was to have an extra strip of walnut attached to the lower inside edge. These ledges support slats which cross the open expanse of the bed frame. All of the weight of the mattress, box spring, bedding, and occupants will ultimately come down on these ledges as shearing...
read moreBuilding a Lapped Lattice
For my king bed, I wanted to do something more interesting than simple plywood panels. Raised panels are nice, but they really didn’t fit into the look of the rest of the set. Instead, I opted to fill my frames with a lattice of solid walnut strips lapped together. A basic square grid rotated 45 degrees presents a diamond-shaped pattern that is interesting to look at and reduces the visual weight of such a large piece. It also presents a few interesting challenges for the construction. Safety Note: If you are making a lattice as...
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