Here we are with a long weekend and I will be starting it off with an outdoor show tonight in Historic Downtown Florence, AL at First Friday. I finished up another batch of five end grain cutting boards last night and got them oiled so they will be ready to load today and display.

I finished a batch of Edge Grain Boards last week to go along with our already completed inventory.

I also got this muttons cut out to go in the doors of a China cabinet. This is my first real project on my scroll saw since I bought it. The one on the right was the pattern from the cabinet. Both of the others were broken so now it is on to matching the stain. More on those later.

I got a frist coat of stain on last night and now I will start to fine tune it to match the originals.

We will be delivering this Island back to a customer that we picked up last weekend and redid the maple top on it. It had ink marks, marker and of course some scratch marks from cutting on it. It is now sanded down and looking new with a new coat of oil applied. All the ink and marker marks are gone and it is looking smooth.

So what is on your Patriot Woodworker agenda this weekend? Here at TPW we love to see all of the wonderful projects you are working on. Thanks for posting pictures in the gallery, but also post them here in the forum and tell us about the project.

Have a safe long weekend and get in the shop and make something. College football kicks off in full swing so there is plenty to do. Let us here your agenda for the weekend.

 

 

Edited September 4, 201510 yr by John Moody

I am starting to get back into the shop and working towards a few things for Christmas. I am making a few of the Children's Knock Down Rocking Chairs which are in 6 pieces and they lock together. They are not hard to make but they are rather time consuming. The hardest part for me is doing the initial rough cutting of the pieces out of the 5'x5' sheet of the 1/2" Baltic Birch Plywood as it is very tedious and rough on my back. This time I decided that instead of just working off the whole sheet and moving it around on the workbench, I cut the sheet up into smaller chunks so that I can cut out 1-3 pieces at a time which is much easier to manipulate on the workbench. It is still very tedious, but it is a lot easier on my body. I can get 2 complete chairs out of each sheet with an extra back and seat piece.

Here are what the chairs look like when assembled.

Once I finish up with the rocking chairs I will finally finish up the prototype of an Adirondack Style Chair that I started a year or 2 ago. I had made up some Adirondack chairs back in 1998-99 using a different plan and sold a few sets and made a bench for our patio. After 17 years that bench is getting pretty worn out and wobbly but held up well being that it was always in the shade and under the eaves. So getting a new design will be nice. If it goes well I will see about making more and seeing about selling some. Unfortunately with our prices of lumber here in So. Calif. to make a profit you got price them pretty high. Red Cedar, Redwood and White Oak in 4/4 all run about $4+ per BF. Getting decent clear Cedar or Redwood here in So. Calif. is not easy. White Oak is readily available.

These are the old design of Adirondack Chairs and Benches that I made years ago. I bought the pattern from Rockler for the chair and did a couple of modifications to make the bench and also came up with the table design on my own to match in the set. This was a set I made for a lady that I was in rehab with at physical therapy after my back surgeries. Not my favorite paint scheme, but it was what she wanted and it matched her funky style on her patio. Most importantly she paid cash. :-)
These are low resolution photos and were actually pretty good for the day in 1998 from my Sony Mavica floppy disk camera.

This is the design of Adirondack Chair that I got from a project book at Woodcraft. It is also a design that I found online by an artist Tim Celeski ( http://celeski.com/gallery/collection/bainbridge/bainbridge.html ) that makes some very cool high end A&C designed furniture so I don't know if it was Tim's design and the the folks at "American Woodworker" borrowed it or the other way around. But either way it is a nice pattern. 

Edited September 4, 201510 yr by Allen Worsham

You guys put me to shame!

I am starting to get back into the shop and working towards a few things for Christmas. I am making a few of the Children's Knock Down Rocking Chairs which are in 6 pieces and they lock together. They are not hard to make but they are rather time consuming. The hardest part for me is doing the initial rough cutting of the pieces out of the 5'x5' sheet of the 1/2" Baltic Birch Plywood as it is very tedious and rough on my back. This time I decided that instead of just working off the whole sheet and moving it around on the workbench, I cut the sheet up into smaller chunks so that I can cut out 1-3 pieces at a time which is much easier to manipulate on the workbench. It is still very tedious, but it is a lot easier on my body. I can get 2 complete chairs out of each sheet with an extra back and seat piece.

Here are what the chairs look like when assembled.

Once I finish up with the rocking chairs I will finally finish up the prototype of an Adirondack Style Chair that I started a year or 2 ago. I had made up some Adirondack chairs back in 1998-99 using a different plan and sold a few sets and made a bench for our patio. After 17 years that bench is getting pretty worn out and wobbly but held up well being that it was always in the shade and under the eaves. So getting a new design will be nice. If it goes well I will see about making more and seeing about selling some. Unfortunately with our prices of lumber here in So. Calif. to make a profit you got price them pretty high. Red Cedar, Redwood and White Oak in 4/4 all run about $4+ per BF. Getting decent clear Cedar or Redwood here in So. Calif. is not easy. White Oak is readily available.

These are the old design of Adirondack Chairs and Benches that I made years ago. I bought the pattern from Rockler for the chair and did a couple of modifications to make the bench and also came up with the table design on my own to match in the set. This was a set I made for a lady that I was in rehab with at physical therapy after my back surgeries. Not my favorite paint scheme, but it was what she wanted and it matched her funky style on her patio. Most importantly she paid cash. :-)
These are low resolution photos and were actually pretty good for the day in 1998 from my Sony Mavica floppy disk camera.

This is the design of Adirondack Chair that I got from a project book at Rockler. It is also a design that I found online by an artist Tim Celeski ( http://celeski.com/gallery/collection/bainbridge/bainbridge.html ) that makes some very cool high end A&C designed furniture so I don't know if it was Tim's design and the the folks at "American Woodworker" borrowed it or the other way around. But either way it is a nice pattern. 

Awesome. Glad to see you are getting some shop time. 

I have got to make some of those knock down chairs.

I love the adirondack chairs. Really cool!

Looks like a lot of great stuff guys, I am not doing a lot this weekend, a bit of turning but really have nothing planned. I was contacted about a potential order but then the order never happened so I am just waiting to see if it will come through or not. A lady originally wanted one of my key chains out of Black & White Ebony, She asked if I had any and I had told her yes, but i haven't heard back yet.

 

Maybe I'll warm up the lathe in a bit and turn some eggs or something.

 

Have a great weekend everyone, I am always around somewhere  

Would those be scrambled eggs Charles? 

Looks like I came to the party late.  This morning I had the opportunity to repair a century old dictionary pedestal.  One of the three legs had become loose and the whole thing was unstable.  Plus, the wooden screw that attached to the top had become detached from the top.  I re-glued both, cleaned it with Briwax and gave it back.  This repair came me an opportunity to see up close some turn of the century joinery.  The leg that I repaired had been wrapped in linen and glued in with hide glue.  QUite interesting.

Of course, I also got a little picking in too.

Would those be scrambled eggs Charles? 

LOL scrambled wood, um isn't that called sawdust?

LOL scrambled wood, um isn't that called sawdust?

Uh, I think I've got egg on my face.