Maple and Cherry Sideboard – Viewer Project
A beautiful Sideboard submitted by Pierre-Alexandre Aka “Loupitou”. Let’s see what he has to say:
I finally completed the sideboard project. The woods used are curly/tiger maple and cherry with pine for the back. This is entirely solid wood construction. The fun part of this project was that I only used dovetails for joinery and as a result, this is a big (and heavy) puzzle, with a unique order to follow for assembly. Finish is sprayed clear shellac followed by sprayed poly with 320 grit in between coats.
It was a my really first big project and I’m overall satisfied. I should have paid more attention in the selection of the parts from the wood, but I made the mistake of selecting the parts on rough wood. The real figures and defects in the wood appeared after planing.
Nate’s “Growing from the Heart” – Viewer Project
It’s not too often we get turning projects and this one is just incredible! Submitted by our buddy Nate. Let’s check it out:
Just wanted to send you a little note. I have been having a lot of fun turning as it is one of the few things I can do right now. It gets frustrating with the lathe I have, (a mini lathe) but it just makes the challenge that much more interesting and the finished product that much more satisfying. I turned this for my little brother out of a piece of his fire wood (lodge pole pine) and some padauk. I call it “Growing from the Heart”. I thought it was neat but it is really a rough piece. I didn’t sand the belly or fix course turning in the base. Even the finish (6 coats of shellac) has some streaks in it. Of course I will admit I left everything that way on purpose as for me is symbolizes the “growing” process. My wife says I tend to be to deep and sentimental.
Nick’s Workbench – Week of Workbenches
This late addition to our Week of Workbenches comes from Nick. Let’s check it out:
It’s just a pretty traditional cabinetmaker’s workbench. Its made of soft maple and pine for the base with big dovetails and all! The base is held together with double mortise and tenons with some bolts for the longer stretchers. The top is just a 2 1/2″ thick slab of maple with the dogholes on there. The caps around the top are all dovetailed and bolted together. The tail vise is just the screw type with the grid work of wood underneath keeping everything in line. I made my own wooden dogs out of padauk just because running into a metal dog is just something I don’t want to deal with. And here’s a link to my blog: Derrevog.Blogspot.com. Thanks and I hope you like it!
Not Your Average Pine End Table – Viewer Project
This Viewer Project come from Ken in Ottawa. Let’s check it out:
I am sending you some photos of one of my latest projects for the project of the week. It is inspired by your End Table project but with a twist. First a little background. The wood working club I belong to. The Ottawa Woodworking Association (OWA) last year had our first 2X4 competition. The basic idea is to take one standard construction grade pine 2X4X8’ long and let your imagination go wild to see what you can make with it. There can be no other wood added to the project. It is challenging and lots of fun. This year one of our local wood suppliers wanted to be involved so The Wood Source donated one 1”X12”X6’ long clear pine board to those who wanted to participate. When all projects are done they will then be given to The Wood Source where they will be displayed in there shop and auctioned off. The money is then given to a charity. Again there can be no other wood added. Once I received my pine board, it was then time to start thinking. I am new to your pod cast and have been going through your past episodes. As I was watching the End Table series I thought this would be great for the 1X12 competition.
I decided originally to do a four legged table but after cutting out all the legs and leaving enough wood for the top I changed the design and decided to make it three legged for no other reason than something different. So I now have an extra leg,for what? I don’t know. As I don’t have a band saw all the curves for the legs, stretchers and the table top had to be cut out using my scroll saw (photo # 3 & 4). Once all legs and stretchers where cut out the sliding dove tales made, glued up and attached to the hub, again using sliding dove tales I then used chisels and sanding to further shape and refine the legs and hub (photo #5 & 6). Once everything was sanded down to 220 girt I then did the finishing. I am very happy with the end result (photo #7 & 8). When it was all done and I stood back looking at it and trying to think of what I would name it. I came up with “Guitar Pick table” as the top reminds me of a guitar pick.
A few challenges came up. The first is using pine. Being a soft wood and only having it be one inch thick and not having enough wood to make the legs thicker they are a bit on the fragile side, yes I knocked one on the floor while sanding it and had to glue it back together. Also I had to be extremely careful when doing the sliding dove tales, again for the same reason of the pine being soft and not very thick. The other challenge with pine is getting a good solid colour. Most of the work I do I don’t stain the wood. I like to let the natural beauty of the wood speak for itself. In this case I decided to use Varathane Light Cherry Stain. Unfortunately, as a pre stain I used Shellac, but did not realise it was not dewaxed, so off it all came and on went Minwax Pre Stain Wood Conditioner I had in the shop. Then several coats of the cherry stain. As a top coat I put on three to four coats of Varathane Clear Finish.
This kind of project is a good design exercise with the limitations of quantity and type of wood that can be used. I am very happy with the way it turned out and even though I knew all along that I would not be able to keep it, it will be hard to let it go. Some changes I will make when I do one for our house is, using different woods and making the legs stretchers and hub a little thicker.
Keep up the great web site and pod casts.
P.S. The OWA had our December meeting last night where the projects where on display and the members voted on the top three. I am very happy to say that this table gathered the most votes. Thank you to all the OWA members.
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