The dog days of summer have certainly hit here in the South. It has been in the upper 90's every day with humidity of 70%. When you walk out side you are wearing the humidity. The air went out on my truck this week of all times and had to have it repaired. I was told there was a mixing gate behind the dash and they might have to pull the whole dash to change out the motor and if that was the case, it would be 800 to 900.00. Wow! But I got a call and they were able to change it out without pulling the dash and I got out for 250.00. Sure felt good going home yesterday when it was 98.

So this week I finished the 100+ year old rocker and got it delivered to the owner on Wednesday night. It belonged to her Great Grandmother and had been passed down to her mother and now to her. The rockers were worn flat and one of them had cracked all the way through. So I made two new rockers out of white oak like the chair and rub it down with BLO, let it dry and then waxed it.

The BLO was a nice match to the finish already on the chair. The back of the chair is the original backing but the bottom has been replaced.

I also delivered another rocker that was made for a repair and got it delivered Wednesday night.

I made a speaker cabinet last week and when he got it home the speaker didn't fit. He looked at the dimensions he gave me and they were inside, but he didn't tell me they were inside so I made them as the outside as I had done on the other two which were outside dimensions.

So anyway, I rebuilt it for him and got it put together last night.

It is sitting upside down, the opening will be on the bottom for the cables to pass through and connect to the sub woofer.

And let me just say one more time that I really love the Bessey clamps. They are so nice and give such an even clamping. If you are ever looking to add clamps to your collections, I would recommend the Besseys.

We are also finishing up another Green Egg table that will be delivered Saturday.

So what are you Patriot Woodworkers doing in your shop this weekend? We here at TPW are always interested in what your are working on so please share your projects here with us.

 

I'm waiting to see what you are doing.

Making some stuff for my first craft show. Finished a dozen 5" x 7" laminated cheese boards ( Cherry/Walnut/Maple combinations). Working on some elliptical vertical rolling pin holders.

Next up will be trying to reproduce one of these-

My sister-in-law asked me to make her one. At first glance, I thought- no problem. Boy was I wrong!

That is so neat looking Lew. I look forward to your write up on how to make those.

I have a little table that I am finishing up for my wife's classroom to go into the play area. It had to be round and will get beat up, so I just went to Home Depot and picked up a pre-made 1" thick 20" round table top that was already rounded over along with some PVC pitting for the legs. Took me about an hour to put the thing together and get the legs (two square sections that have cross supports to keep them square) all mounted and balanced. Then I put in pan head screws at the joints for added strength and then removed the legs so that I could sand and paint the top. I got 2 more coats of red paint to go on the top today and will let it cure over the weekend so I can put it into the play area on Monday. Funny but I could have bought a pre-made plastic table that would have fit the bill for less money and time, but it did give me something to do over the past few days. :-)

Nice work, John. Did  you replace/re-weave the seat and back on that rocking chair?

And oh, yeah, the heat....we are in coastal NC, and it has been a scorcher this summer.  Our downstairs HVAC unit went belly up last week, fortunately during one of the cooler weeks of this summer, but it took all that time for my local maintenance company to get a new  coil from TRANE.  
 

My shop is the third bay in our garage with its own garage door.  We had the house built that way with a wall and door between the shop and the larger area we use for our cars.  A little tight, but I can do my mostly scroll saw projects with no space issues.    I had the shop plumbed and wired for a future mini-split HVAC, but the $4-5K price tag has led me to just keep door up and not work out there when the afternoon sun makes it too uncomfortable to continue.
 

well myself have finally finished all the installion of both sides of shop,now on to putting up OSB for the walls ,hard goin cause i think i might have fractured or broke my wrist,wont know till i got clinic,but only openin is 15 Sept,so i am keepin iy wrapped up for now,GOOD thing is its my left hand,cause i am right handed,will put pics up of shop.

Great projects John!

Still digging out on our end, I can see my table saw now. We have a kitchen, and we are waiting for all our furniture to get back, they said they'll deliver next Wednesday and hopefully we can retire the lawn chairs. We'll be working on getting the garage shop cleaned out, I'll be helping mama get stuff back into the kitchen from our shop this weekend. I've been hammering away on mama's laptop the last two months since the flood, it's become the family PC and oldest daughter is hogging it for her school homework since school started, so it'll be nice to get our desk top PC back next week where I can actually sit down and do some real work!

I can't wait to get some projects rolling in my shop, been waaaay too long since I built anything!

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful weekend in their shops!

I've taken on the job of building a 48" communion table for my sister's church.  The catch was that they wanted the table built from reclaimed wood.  The wood is being reclaimed from come pews that they have had since the early 1950s.  In fact, my scrawny little butt probably sat in the pews I'm using.  About 20 years ago the wooden seats were padded and covered and I'm using the pew seats for the table top because they were a bit thicker.  I ripped the bottoms at the glue lines (because I didn't trust 60 year old glue) and I'm now gluing them back as a top.  Hopefully today I'll have them as one complete top.  With the biblical flood we had yesterday the humidity is quite high so I built an OSB backer base to lock everything down to keep it flat.  I don't need a biblical rainbow made from this panel.  The seat backs pictured will be ripped and planed to make an octagonal pedestal.  That, my friends, is my weekend project or at least the start of it.

 

Love it Ron! A whole lot of history in that wood isn't there!

By the way, any ply in that project? You had concerns that there possibly may be plys to deal with.

Ya know John, there wasn't.  They were solid white old.  I didn't stick a moisture meter in them but they were dry as dust and I really had to be generous with the TB II because it soaked in real well.  The folks at the church have no idea what they want so I'm freelancing this one but I'm struggling witht the base.  I think I'll build an octagonal base so that I can made four feet (stability issues) but I don't know how to dress the pedestal up.  Any suggestions?  I'll build the pedestal and feet with a 38" radius to keep the 70% ratio.  I'm also toying with the idea of cutting a circle of 3/4 plywood to act as a stretcher and I can attach the apron to it.

How do ya like those clamps?  I picked those up a few years back and never have used them.  They worked well on this project and are probably older than me.

Taking a break from the sawdust this weekend, watching the race tonight and just generally making myself available here.

Have a great weekend all.
 

Making another golf cart instarsia to donate as a silent auction item for a breast cancer fund raiser next weekend.

No Thankfully I didn't have to touch the weaving. All I had to do was replace the rockers. Both them had been used so much that they were flat for about six inches so it was really hard to rock in it.

I think they may have had a repair to the bottom, but the back is the original back.

I just figured you got those clamps when you started woodworking!

All of it very nice work guys, thanks for sharing.