He said all he could come up with the customers all wanted something prettier. So I started looking through google and I found a few to start my thinking going. The first day I went through 10,267 quilt racks, each one just a little different than the last.. I don't think I had ever been close enough to touch one so I needed more than the ten minutes I had allotted for a size up.

 

The next day or two I went down to his store, used junk, and started asking the important questions, does anybody with money ever come in your store, or is it people like me, always looking for a bargain?? And the next question, do people want a floor model or a wall model. His answer, I didn't know they made two different models!

 

Anyway this is the guy when he had something furniture wise broken or tore up, he would call me to fix  and in return I wanted to be paid with wood planes or draw knives or things like that at any of the auctions he attended to buy stuff to resale.. Too bad he sold his business cause I sure was getting a good collection of junk.

 

Anyway, I started making things out of wood to resemble a quilt rack.

I kept telling myself I had to start somewhere.

 

I forgot to ask if anyone mentioned color, colors and his reply really helped, duh, duh, duh.

 

So that caused me to make a number of shady stains. Then my daughters saw some pictures and, hey dad, beautiful, but I need so in so color on mine.

 

 And one said, and don't forget I live in Louisiana and the saints emblem is a must. This is not made for a football field, girly

Then my other daughter called and said make hers standing in cowboy boots with a blue star on top.

By the time I counted up I had request for 30 of these things and for sure some would be for free. what?

 

  I used epoxy and did I say all six rungs has twelve holes that needs to have the correct amount of epoxy in each hole to work and not cause problems and at the same time using something flat like the tablesaw to make sure each leg has the right amount of pressure pushing down so needless to say I think I bought and used 10 day set time on the epoxy..... well that's fudging a little but you sure don't want things setting up till the game is over.

At least I did find a whale of a bargain on some 1 1/4" Ash dowels for 3.35 each if I bought , I think I had to buy 50 at a time. Wife said .whoa there pardner. What's you doing???????? Honey by the time I glue up enough ash wood to turn them down to 1 1/4"  then put the round dowels in the curly cue machine to make pretty would cost us twice that amount and they said they would be perfectly straight !! I have lots of ash wood but its all 13/16" thick so I would have to glue it all which sometimes things will start to warp and I won't be able to stop it. Anyway I did have to order another 50 not long after the first batch, for the same price. This was about three or four years ago and wow, ash has turned into gold. I should have never bragged on ash being great to work with even though it is. All the rest of the pieces I did have to glue up before I turned it all.

  Oh yea, this started out with a friend at a used junk store wanting to buy some quilt racks,,,,never happened. He said I was too high for his customers....

  Now I have to make some wall models in the same style as the others and I do think this friend is sending them to see me but he won't admit it.

 

I just noticed I better give Hobby Lobby credit for the round finales in one of the pictures. That's the only thing I didn't make.

 

Notice the big hump on each arm....reason, if you have ever built anything like this you can guess. Its sure makes it nice to have a place for clamps. In the repair business I always hated to see queen anne tables come in to the shop for leg repairs...

 

 

 

 

Those are fantastic works of art. It's plain to see why you keep getting orders.

Great Looking Work!

That sure is some nice work Jess.  I take it you have been giving the Legacy Mill a good workout.

3 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

I take it you have been giving the Legacy Mill a good workout.

Love to see that in operation!

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

He said I was too high for his customers....

 

people want nice, hand made things....but they don't want to pay for nice, hand made things.

 

nice work.

I'm sure of it now...

you have that red in oil drum quantities...

 

1. nice shop...

2. WHEW!!! beautifully done racks Jess...

Really impressive work, amazing I think.

 

Steve

Lew that machine is the greatest thing since colored margarine.  

 

This Legacy, I named it ROW BUTT, is the only one made like it. I turn it on, then just think what I want it to do, push the go button and go in the house and forget it. But you can't stay gone too long for one time I fell a sleep and an awful noise was coming from the shop. I ran out there and the machine had torn the boards off the wall and was working on the rafters when I walked in. Don't let me run out of wood again was flashing as it sputtered to a halt. 

20 minutes ago, Smallpatch said:

that machine is the greatest thing since colored margarine.

I remember my Mom breaking that little orange "pill" and mixing the margarine until it looked like butter.

3 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

This is not made for a football field, girly

Quilt rack, football banner blanket rack...all the same. PLUS you can expand your market potential listing multiple usage.

As for the product, WOW!! Cool, one-of-a-kind design Patch!  I guess now there are 10,269 designs on the internet.

Like Stick, thanks for the shop tour...very nice!

When I saw these quilt racks, I realized what an artist you are. I don't know how you made all the spirals or most of the artistry involved. I can only say that I was blown away by something so beautiful. Any quilt person would love to have such a thing, However when I showed my wife, She said she couldn't hang a quilt on it unless it was a sheer one.. She wouldn't hide the beauty of your work. 

Was just about to go to bed when I remembered that old adage

" NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED "

LOL.

WOW, Jess, just WOW!

Absolutely awesomely beautiful...no wonder you're asked for more...(nice problem  )

 

BTW...wish I had a shop like yours...

 

 

Ron too bad I can't claim responsibility for making these things beautiful. Without the Legacy I couldn't make a birdhouse pretty enough to sell.

 

I remember someone on Wood commented the Legacy is nothing more than the Sears router crafter only larger in size, or something like that. The one I have is the hand crank model and that is about all the comparison one could make between the Sears and the Legacy, the crank.

 

The trouble is someone has to be able to read directions which I can read, but retaining what it was for over ten or fifteen minute time gap is where my old age kicks the door down.

 

Use to I would go to Legacy Ornamental Mill.com to their picture gallery and spend all day slobbering over the beautiful work people have created. At the same time for about five years we would go to the woodworking show in Fort Worth and I would spend all day watching the demo's of the Legacy. Finally I had saved enough and bought one. But you know trying to make mine do the things the guys at the show did was not the same. I didn't buy the learning also when I put my money down....I did get lots of videos and written instructions and plenty of remote help yes but still not the same. Hey I can't even push the right button to answer Wife's cell phone.

 

Would I do it over again, yep.  Did I also mention at least twice a day you will run into a router bit you dearly need........Magnate.com makes all the router bits Legacy uses. Other places makes bottom cutting bits also but there is a catch here for Magnate will not send them to you unless you send them money. Some kind of dumb procedure or law or something.

  Do go to Legacy and look over a harp this guy built using the Legacy. I hope its still in the gallery. Talk about some wild thoughts or the kaleidoscope with all the different woods used, amazing!!! These guys  makes something I build looks like tinkertoys.

 

 

 As always Jess, great looking pieces. I'm sure you had to consider a stain bleeding into a quilt, is this just a poly finish or something else?

5 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

These guys  makes something I build looks like tinkertoys.

...and you friend make stuff that makes my builds look like scrapwood. You're too humble Patch...you produce one-of-a-kind classic pieces of art!

Wow those are so cool I can see why people just keep calling about them. Very very nice. Top line!

 

Bob, lacquer is the only finish I have ever used all the way back to 1954 for indoor use. I had a furniture repair refinish shop for a number of years and no one ever requested anything. They just left it up to me.

  The only thing I ever had bleed through in to the top coat was the old mahogany furniture. Anytime I refinish any piece of old furniture I completely strip the old finish off with the commercial removers. Then to make sure I have gotten all the old off I use steel wool soaked in lacquer thinner and do a good wash down. If there is any of the old finish still left in the cracks the lacquer thinner will shine for a while just long enough to remove whats there. But on some mahogany removing the old finish does not stop the bleeding. Not all will bleed but one is too many. I don't work for the public anymore so I don't have to worry with refinishing old stuff.....

   Back when the antiquing with the colored lacquer and a glaze for graining and a top coat was a popular thing in the sixties often the mahogany stain would bleed into the colored lacquer making the prettiest pink out of white lacquer. We had from a number of companies supplying a good block for those stains. But now that was working with old furniture. I don't get any bleed through working with new wood. I say new wood, I do mean hardwood. I don't use soft woods for it messes up the sandpaper and cost too much to replace on some of the enclosed machines. But like I said I only spray lacquer. Don't even know what other paints would do . And when lacquer is gone, so am I.

  Can you believe lacquer thinner use to cost me 50 cents a gallon in 55 gallon drums which they only put 54 gallons in each drum.