tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753161635033536852024-02-20T19:01:12.383-05:00From the WoodshopA snap shot of what's happening in my shopAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-12464174342852678602014-09-29T20:25:00.000-04:002014-09-29T20:25:44.172-04:00Tenoning Jig and Chairmakers SawI am happy to say I can check one more project off the list as of today. A couple of days ago I got back to work on the vise part of the tenon jig. I trimmed my ends off and added the screw part of the clamp, The hardest part was finding a way to screw the bracket on the inside of the vise, this was done using a socket wrench and a #3 screw tip fit into the socket. I could fit that into the inside and screw the bracket in with no problem. With that done I just added a single coat of oil to the vise and a little wax to the inside of the jig were the parts slide along the inside walls.<br />
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With that done today I moved onto the chair makers saw The saw consists of a blade sandwiched between to pieces of wood with a couple of handles,I used walnut for the top and maple for the bottom. In the article in Popular Woodworking the author used a saw he purchased from Lie Nielson. As much as I would like to do that it wasn't going to happen. I went to Lowes and bought a tenon saw for less than $20 ( I think it was $14) and disassembled it.<br />
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The blade needed to be drilled for the holes but once that was done it was just a matter of screwing it together with machine screws.<br />
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I used two handles from one of those cheep blue Stanley planes that was given to me. The last thing was to make a setup block to set the tenon marks to after they are marked, its just a piece of wood with a washer filed down so it lines up perfectly with the bottom cutting edge of the saw.<br />
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I screwed the washer to a piece of wood then filed it down to a sharp edge so it would fit into the scribed lines for the tenon.<br />
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I did a test run with a straight joint and an angled joint and it works great.I cant wait to use this on a real project.I always seem to have trouble getting the shoulders to line up perfectly when I cut them on the table saw and cutting angled parts is even a bigger headache.<br />
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Here are a couple more shots of the clamp. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-84427258104356877982014-09-06T19:38:00.000-04:002014-09-06T19:41:43.084-04:00Getting Some Freebies and Working on some UFO'sMy wife is a quilter and in the quilting world they use the term UFO for "unfinished objects" or Projects. Well as things go I have several of those and I am trying my best to catch up.since my last post I did manage to do a local art show, sell a table, and meet some very nice folks.There was a couple that I was talking to and the gentleman ask me if I wanted some free wood that was cut 1/4" thick. He seen that I was doing marquetry and thought I could use it. It is not like I don't have enough odds and ends around but I said I would take it. He was a professional woodworker that works with slabs and has a lot of off cuts of some pretty nice wood. What he didn't mention was the thicker 3/4"to 1" mostly high figured and burls that he had . Below is what he gave me and I admit it was more than I expected.<br />
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I normally work on one project at a time and then move on but since I have been working with the chevalet I end up with several marquetry projects also when I did the tea table I cut parts for two more. All this adds up to doing several of the same projects over again and getting the ambition up for that is like pulling teeth. I must admit though when I am working on them it is still enjoyable, I just want to start something totally new.<br />
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The first thing I began was refining the legs on the tea table. The finished table was fine but it just didn't look as light as the original .<br />
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I took the leg down to 5/8" from 13/16 " on the bottom and that may not seem like a lot but the difference is very noticeable I wanted one to be as close to the original as possible so I made a scratch stock and cut some flutes along the leg close to what were on the original. I'm not sure if I will add marquetry to the other one or not.<br />
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I also started on the other three tiger pictures. This seems to be going a little better than the first one because I am assembling all three at the seem time instead of just one at a time. It is still a time consuming project but I will end up with three pictures in just a little more time than I spent doing one.<br />
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I started with the head because its the hardest part and has most of the tiny pieces.<br />
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Another project that was started but never finished was the tenon jig. I
had all the wood cut and even had a start on laying out the dovetails. <br />
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After all the layout was done on the joints I cut the the dovetails on the table saw and chopped the pins by hand with chisels.<br />
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I made a mistake and didn't take into account the 1/2" I cut away on the inside of the tail sides and the pins stick out by that amount on both sides UGH! The only bad thing is I will lose about an inch of space on the inside of the jig for real large tenon's but I don't really work on that scale much so I don't think it will be much of an issue.I had to cut a recess on the inside of the front piece to accept the steal vise and give me a 1/2" more room. <br />
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I just glued it up as is and will cut the excess off when it is done.<br />
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The last little project was not something that was started but only took a hour or so to complete. It started when visiting my in-laws in upstate N.Y. They had a friend who lost her elderly parents recently and her father had a wood shop in the basement. She was selling the house and wanted it cleaned out . She told my father in law and me to take whatever we wanted and she didn't want anything for it. Although he had some power equipment I could have taken I didn't want to take something I didn't need just because it was free. What I did end up with was a few nice saws, one of which was a very nice backsaw, and some drill bits for a brace, and a oak shop stool.<br />
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With all these new (old) saws I needed somewhere to store them, so along with a few I already owned I made a rack and mounted it to the wall next to my bench.<br />
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I already ordered the files to sharpen them so once sharpened I will be pretty set up for hand saws. I would like to get a 5tpi rip saw but that can wait as I do have a table saw that I don't see me getting rid of to go powerless in the near future. I will eventually have to make something for all the drill bits to keep them from being knocked around and getting dull, maybe a case for the braces and bits together.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-8310625341749894022014-07-25T22:03:00.001-04:002014-07-25T22:12:22.410-04:00Finishing The Tiger Chest I have finally found some time to post the end results of the tiger chest I have been working on. I thought I had taken more pics of the case construction but I was mistaken. The case construction was pretty straight forward and done similar to the last blanket chest I did (June 2013.) One of the few changes I made was to use red cedar veneer on the inside of the chest so with the solid cedar bottom the whole inside was done in cedar. The outside was done with Makore veneer. <br />
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The panels where pretty easy to glue up using a vacuum press but the front panel did take a little bit of time to clean all the veneer tape off and get sanded.<br />
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As with the last chest I also did all the finishing before glue-up. This takes a little more effort but I think I get a much better end result also I can fix any flaws in the finish a lot easier with the parts broken down.Below is a picture of the chest during a dry run on the glue -up but before the finishing.<br />
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I was looking for an Asian look for this chest so I thought I would ebonize the oak frame part's with the solution made from steel wool and vinegar. I added tree bark tea (quebarcho extract) before the vinegar which gives the wood a bit more tannin, the tannin in wood mixed with metal is what makes it turn black. The process is fully explained in
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All the parts where finished with lacquer except the red cedar interior which I left unfinished. I was a little concerned about only finishing one side of a panel but after doing some research I found it was acceptable to do if your not gluing the veneer with a glue that is susceptible to moister, as it was I used unibond 800 and it is not.<br />
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The chest was only slightly out of square when I put the clamps on it so one clamp across diagonally did the trick bringing it back to square. I used a piano hing for the top and leather to keep the lid from swinging to far back.<br />
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The lid has the characters for the Chinese proverb "Three Men Make A Tiger". <a href="http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/ebonizing_wood."><br /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.omsj.org/reports/chinesetiger.pdf">Three men make a tiger</a>
is a Chinese proverb that refers to the idea that if an unfounded
premise or urban legend is mentioned and repeated by many individuals,
the premise will be erroneously accepted as the truth. This concept is
analogous to communal reinforcement or the sociological concept known as
<i>argumentum ad populum</i> (appeal to the people).<br />
The proverb came from the story of an alleged speech by Pang Cong, an
official of the state of Wei in the Warring States Period (475 BC – 221
BC) in Chinese History.<br />
According to the Warring States Records, before he left on a trip to
the state of Zhao, Pang Cong asked the King of Wei whether he would
hypothetically believe in one civilian’s report that a tiger was roaming
the markets in the capital city, to which the King replied no. Pang
Cong asked what the King thought if two people reported the same thing,
and the King said he would begin to wonder. Pang Cong then asked, “what
if three people all claimed to have seen a tiger?” The King replied that
he would believe in it.<br />
Pang Cong reminded the King that the notion of a live tiger in a
crowded market was absurd, yet when repeated by numerous people, it
seemed real.<br />
As a high-ranking official, Pang Cong had more than three opponents
and critics; naturally, he urged the King to pay no attention to those
who would spread rumors about him while he was away.<br />
“I understand,” the King replied, and Pang Cong left for Zhao.<br />
Yet, slanderous talk took place. When Pang Cong returned to Wei, the King stopped seeing him.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-20380956801791693362014-06-14T17:56:00.000-04:002014-06-28T22:41:59.455-04:00Finishing the Tea Table<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I picked up were I left off by making a pattern of the top to use for cutting out the tops and as a reference to use for the groves I will be cutting into the top. I can't tell from the original how the groves in the top were cut but I decided to cut them the same way I cut groves for inlay or stringing in something like a line and berry chest. I used a simple tool made with a pin and a pc.of card scrapper that has teeth cut into it. I think it has somewhere around a 3 5/8 inch radius.</div>
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Next I found a picture of a Lilly to use for the apron and one for the medallion in the center of the table from there I could cut the marquetry I needed for the table.The center medallion was cut using 4 veneers Holly,dyed green,dyed yellow, and the lace wood background. I stacked them into a packet and just cut all the parts from one pattern. This left me with four of every part but only one usable picture when assembled. </div>
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The lilies for the apron were cut from the same four veneers but were
cut with the piece by piece method. each packet had four veneers so I
had to cut each part twice to yield enough parts for six aprons, of
course I ended up with eight total.The picture below shows some of the pieces before assembly.</div>
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The hardest part of this project was a surprise to me. It was the supports that went between the legs. From the original picture I thought it looked very easy to do but these things are cut with compound angles and have to sit flat on the legs that are tapering in. I don't believe I did it the way the original was done but it took a lot of head scratching just to find a way to get it done at all! If the legs were off at all by the distance between them the part and angles had to be revised. The whole thing was one big headache. <br />
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This is a dry run with a scrap part to see how it would look. You can see the tape holding the parts on. I added a banding around the top and bottom of the aprons. I know the original had them on the bottom but I have no idea of what the top looked like. I may revisit the way I assembled this table but as it stands I cant think of anther way of doing it. It was finished with hand rubbed shellac and then waxed.<br />
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Here are a few photos of the finished table. I am still working on setting up a place to take proper photos of my work but these are a trial run. I am not sure if I made the legs skinny enough to match the original. It matches the sizes given for the original and I cant figure out why the original one looks so much taller also I think the original looks a little lighter in appearance but I still think its a fine looking table and I'm fine with the way it turned out.<br />
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I started the tea tables with the legs. I made a drawing of the legs and transferred that to some 3/4 particle board. With a good pattern I rough cut the curve on the band saw then pattern routed the legs to shape. <br />
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The legs were a little long so I set up a stop block and support on my miter saw to get a consistent cut. With one side done I could flip the pieces reset the stop block and finish cut all the legs to the exact size <br />
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Now that all the legs were cut to the same size I grouped them all together and sanded them smooth. Even though they were shaped with a router and pattern I thought it was a good idea to make sure they were all sanded to the exact same shape.<br />
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The legs taper in two directions so I made a pattern for the taper. I just laid the pattern on one leg and drew the taper. I placed the top just passed the cutting knives on my jointer and joint opposite sides counting the passes untill I reached the layout lines. It was just a matter of repeating the process on the other legs to get them all the same. I sanded them all to 220 careful I didn't sand the top of the leg and change the thickness. The legs all need to be the same size to fit into the supports that hold them.<br />
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As with everything else I had to make a pattern for the leg supports. I Made a few cutouts then realized I could just spin the pattern to get the other marks. This pattern was just used to mark the parts properly so they could be cut on the band saw. The supports needed to be filed and shaved with a chisel to get a good fit with the legs. It was a bit finicky to get the fit but that was the method I used. I'm sure there must have been an easier way to to this but oh well! <br />
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Below is a dry fit before I put the second taper on the legs. I used a plum bob to get the leg support centered then I realized the legs were not in complete alignment at the floor, so to keep everything symmetrical I made layout lines on the disk and clamped the legs to it as a guide. It worked great and now the legs are a perfect distance apart at the floor.<br />
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I Glued up three tops at about 23" square and picked out the veneer( <i>lacewood)</i> to use as an accent on the top and as a background for the marquetry I will be using on one of the tables.<br />
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I have to get one of these tables done soon for an upcomming show so I will concentrate on one and get back to the rest whene I get cought up.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-55598732138806007842014-04-12T10:42:00.001-04:002014-04-12T10:42:32.672-04:00Tiger Blanket Chest Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black;"></span>I have been getting some quality time out in my shop lately and finally have a something to show for my time. I started cutting the marquetry for the blanket chest with the a tiger theme.</div>
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The tiger itself was basically just three main colors of veneer with just a couple of pieces that were not those three colors. It was very time consuming just getting the veneer ready to be cut.</div>
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Every piece of veneer had to be backed with a piece of craft paper applied with hide glue. The paper back is applied to the veneer because it keeps the veneer stable when your cutting small parts or pieces that have areas that are very fragile such as the ones that are cut to a very fine point.</div>
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After that process is done the veneer needs to be put into packets for cutting. I will be doing four layers so it is a bottom of 1/4" plywood then a layer of grease paper followed by 4 consecutive layers of veneer with the last layer of veneer having the patterns applied to it </div>
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Some of the pieces as you can see in the pictures are extremely small and it was a challenge not to lose any of them when they occasionally fell to the floor. I learned a good lesson, make sure you have your area swept clean of all the debris on the floor.</div>
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The pieces on the green fabric are all the black veneer and the pieces on the red are the red and white veneer. I not sure as of yet what the red veneer is because I bought it in a pack of variuos veneers sold as a marquetry pack but the white is holly and the black is maple that I dyed with Rite dye.There is one little pc. gray and three pc's of dyed pink used for on the nose and eyes.</div>
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I'm not sure if it can be seen from the pictures but there is definitely some gaps between some of the parts,but as this is only the second attempt on the chevralet I'm very happy with the results. There is no way I would have been able to cut parts so small or get the detail I'm getting if I would have cut this on my scroll saw. There isn't much sand shading on the tiger The photo showed some black in the tail and I didn't add it for some dumb reason on my drawing and when the picture was done the tail looked odd.I don't think I could control the black very easy if I tried to sand shade those parts so I opted to add some detail with a charcoal pencil to the tail. After adding the black it seemed to fit a lot better, but the picture is showing the glue side so I will end up doing it again when the part comes out of the press.</div>
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I have been entering a lily themed show at <b><a href="http://campbellpotterystore.com/events" target="_blank">Campbell Pottery</a></b>, our local pottery store for the last few years and its getting time to start working on that project. I found this very cool tea table on <b><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></b> and wanted to build it immediately after seeing it.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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I wanted to do something with it to use at the Lily Festival so I did a couple drawing. What I came up with is to leave the top scrolls the same but the very middle will have a small inlaid lily. The side panels will have marquetry with calla lilies. I will be doing three of these tables all in cherry and on at least one I am going to attempt a true to the original reproduction. the third is still up in the air. all I have is this one photo so I will do some guess work on the actual fabrication.</div>
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Next up is is a few more blanket chests.I still have the bones for at least one cut out from the last time I did one and have been meaning to get back to it. Well I have been doing some drawings on inkscape during the winter to keep busy and to get better at the program. I found a tiger picture I wanted to do in marquetry on my<b> </b><a href="http://paulsayre.blogspot.com/2013/09/starting-first-chevalet-project.html" target="_blank"><b>Chevalet.</b></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a>When you do packet cutting marquetry you end up with more than one finished pictures and the marquetry is so large for this project I thought I might just as well do a few Blanket chest,sort of gang cut all the parts together. </div>
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This is the background for the tiger.This is a picture taken somewhere in China. I wanted it to be a place that may actually have tigers.<br />
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I did some inkscape drawings from these photo's and came up with a plan to merge the two. I think between the both drawings I will have to cut somewhere in the area of over 200 pieces.</div>
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The two drawings above are not proportionate to each other. The tiger is about 1/4 the size of the background.I had to number every piece and the make a separate drawing for each piece and then cut them all out so they could be glued to the veneer packets. </div>
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Next in line is a jig used to cut perfect shoulders on tenons. I started this a few weeks ago and it just sorta stalled out when I got busy doing other things.I have always had trouble getting real nice shoulders cut on my table saw so this is just the thing I need.</div>
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Finally the last two items I have on my list are a glass front gun cabinet for my father in law and a bed made to look like a post and beam structure. A friend of mine has a post and beam building for his hunting camp and wants a bed mad for it. I have most of the drawings done for the gun cabinet including a drawing for the marquetry for the back. All I have for the bed is this picture.<br />
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I look forward to doing all these projects but as its spring time now and the busy season where I work I wounder when I'll find the time. Looks like I 'll be working nights and weekends.<br />
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Well after getting the main parts of the table finished I went about gluing it up. The finish is just a several coats of brushed on shellac finish and then sanded with OOOO steel wool. I glued up the two sides first which was rather easy but because the legs are tapered gluing the rest of it together was a bit more of a challenge. <br />
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I suppose I should have made tapered glue blocks to help with the glue up but I dry ran it first with just some 1/4" shims and it seemed to work. I had to wait for the table to be glued up to get the final measurements on the drawer and top. <br />
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The top just needed to be cut to size and have the corners removed to allow for the legs. I made the drawer from some old flooring someone had given me years ago. They said it was pickle wood which I'm guessing is a nickname, it is very green and I believe it is poplar. I must admit I have never seen poplar so consistently green before, I have seen streaks of green but this stuff is green through and through. <br />
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The drawer was straight forward but for the fact that it has been some time since I hand cut dovetails and went about doing the half blind ones first.The through dovetails on the back of the drawer turned out well enough I just had to add a few pieces of veneer to dress up the front ones. <br />
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I just had to finish the top and drawer and it was done, well except for attaching the top that is.<br />
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My honest impression is that the original table in F.W. is a bit more elegant because of it's height but I wanted to make this a table that could be used as a beside table. I also liked the original wood that was used but cherry is what I had on hand so cherry is what I used. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-44172552191767457562014-01-29T19:38:00.000-05:002014-01-29T19:40:32.886-05:00Continuing the Cherry Table It has been very cold in my area so I haven't spent as much time in the shop as I would like. Its hard to get motivated when its so cold out even though I just have to turn the heat on. Ok enough with the excuses.<br />
I had to mill up the material for the drawer bottom,drawer sides,and the drawer support frame.I resawed some cherry and some sort of poplar that is real green that I was told is called pickle wood, a term or type of wood I never heard of. I broke the golden rule and after resawing did not let the wood acclimate to the shop before final milling and gluing up the two panels.As you can see below they cupped pretty bad. You may be able to see that I added water to the top of them to counter the cupping. I worked just fine on the poplar but the cherry was a little thicker and would not go as flat as I would like so I just ripped the panel down the glue joint and fliped one panel and that seemed to work. I didn't hurt that I had a little more thickness so it could be planed flat. <br />
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I made a small jig to use to drill the holes to attach the inside panels to the front and back panels. After<br />
this was done I could dry fit and get a measurement for a size on the drawer support panel.<br />
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With that done I could shape the legs and then dry fit again so I could measure and scribe the taper on the front,back, and side panel so the reveal would be the same from top to bottom on the leg. It will make more sense when it shown in a picture after final dry fit.<br />
I had to tapper the sides about 1/8th" to get the reveal right. this was done with a # 5 jack plane first to remove most of the materiel and then a #4 to finish it up smooth.<br />
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I have all the parts sanded to 320 and plan on finishing with shellac before I assemble the table, this seems to work well and saves the trouble of trying to get an even finish in all the tight spaces. I can fit the drawer and top when that's done and it should be pretty easy to finish up. Below is the table dry fit after tapering and then disassembled and sanded waiting for finish.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-15151430941649604542014-01-01T18:25:00.000-05:002014-01-01T18:25:24.222-05:00Cherry Lilly TableAfter making the Small Cherry Table I had plans to build another table with the legs reversed. As it happens Fine Woodworking recently published a article with a table similar to what I was going to build so I decided to just build off their plans and make things easy on myself. The author said the table legs reminded her of a calla Lilly so that is were the title of this blog comes from.<br />
My table will be a little shorter and if I can't help myself may have some embellishment. The magazine table has a couple techniques that I've never done before so I can try my hand at them and probably learn something in the process.<br />
I started out milling all the wood and letting it acclimate for a while. I re milled the legs to final size and did the layout for the joinery.<br />
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I used my router to cut the mortises. I know it can be time consuming and a struggle sometimes but it seems to be a little easier than drilling and chopping them out, my other option. I used my router table and a little trick I learned from a video from Fine Woodworking. I set my depth of cut and just added a spacer to the table to lift the work up removing the spacers one at a time to get the cut to full depth.<br />
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The mortices are cut in a way to allow for longer tenons by cutting two different styles of mortice on apposing sides of the leg. This allows them to fit together inside the leg.<br />
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Most of the table frame parts are cut to final size with the joinery left to be done but I just ran out of time to get that done so that is were it stands now.<br />
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The bottom is made like a frame and panel and I have yet to mill those parts. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-20346772606081789262013-11-30T14:33:00.000-05:002013-11-30T14:33:18.922-05:00Long Overdue Band Saw FenceI have really needed a band saw fence for some time now. I bought an old 20" Bridgewood band saw about a year ago and every time I've needed a fence I just clamped a board to the table top.<br />
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I have a couple books dedicated to the band saw and one of these is a book by Kenneth Burton called " band saw tips and tricks". In this book is a shop made fence that looked pretty simple to make and had the ability to adjust for blade drift.<br />
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I cut all the parts to the sizes on the cut list. I just used scrap hardwood.<br />
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I bought all the steel needed for the fence from Lowes but I would have found a cheaper source for this if it had not been a holiday week and just wanted to get it done. The guide bar has a series of dado's cut into it to allow for the steel bar.<br />
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After the steel bar was pilot drilled and attached to the guide bar I drilled a couple holes in the table because I didn't have holes to accept the guide bar. The guide bar was attached 5/8 " down from the table top to allow for the pivot base on the fence.<br />
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The pivot base is just a couple pieces of 5/8 thick hardwood. one has a dado cut on the bottom to allow for the vertical apron , also a 3/8 hole and a slotted hole made to allow for the fence to pivot. There is a knob that fits into a hole on the apron pc. <br />
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A 2 3/4' long pc. of 3/4' bar is tapped to accept the stud on the knob.
This piece slides between the retaining strips on the guide bar and
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Its not the greatest fence system as it has a little play but that may be the makers fault and not in the design. I will try a few things to tighten it up but it will definitely work for what I need it to do.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-51291861135672762462013-11-23T10:40:00.000-05:002013-11-23T10:40:12.435-05:00Finishing the Small Cherry TableI started with the top first. The top was made with an mdf substrate and some of the same mahogany veneer that was used for the sides. After that came out of the press I rapped the edges with 2" cherry.<br />
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I used biscuts and got a chance to use the biscut joiner jig that <b><a href="http://www.michaelfortune.com/home.html" target="_blank">Michael Fortune </a></b>did an article on in Fine Woodworking magazine # 227. I built this jig some time ago and never had a chance to use it until now, It works great and definitely makes you rethink bringing the work to the machine instead of the machine to the work when doing biscuts. <br />
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I glued on corner blocks for clamping on the cherry edge and then chisled them off and planed it flat after the top was glued up. Next I cut a small bevel on the bottom edge to lighten the look of the top up a little. <br />
Before I could glue the base together I had to trim the sides. The scrolled pieces were sized a little bigger than the sides to give some play during the glue up. The block plane made quick work of that and then I fitted the sides and glued up the base.<br />
The finish on the table was just a just a few coats of spray lacquer from Lowes. I waited and did the finish before attaching the top.<br />
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To attach the top to the base I added corner blocks on the inside and drilled some over sized holes to allow for expansion and contraction when the top was screwed to base. The tenons are not that big on a leg that small so the corner blocks make the table a little more structural sound. <br />
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I think the scroll work might just be a little overwhelming for this table, maybe a bit to busy looking but it is starting to grow on me a little. It might be just a matter of taste. This little table did accomplish what I wanted in that I had a chance to try a few new ideas and I didn't take long or use a lot of materials. Over all its not a bad looking little table and I may just do another one a little different soon.<br />
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What Coleman did was glue on some thin 1/16" pieces of wood that have a scroll saw patterns on them over another contrasting wood. It gives the wood a almost carved look or at least some texture to make the piece more interesting.<br />
I started with a pattern out of a scroll saw pattern book. I altered it a little and with the pattern done I could size the sides to fit the pattern. I ended up with 4" wide sides by a little over 12" long. I didn't have any 8/4 cherry so I glued up some 4/4 stock that I had on hand for the legs.<br />
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The 1 1/2" sq. parts were cut using a pattern I made that had a fair curve starting 4" from the top. The legs were a little different than anything I've cut before because your taking material away from the top of the leg as apposed to the bottom on most legs that taper to a smaller size at the bottom. <br />
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I re-sawed some cherry into pieces a little over 1/16' thick to use for the outer pattern. I used graphite paper to transfer the pattern onto one of the pieces and then stacked and taped them together for cutting. After the parts were cut using a scroll saw I used a knife to ease the edges and then finished up with a small needle file.<br />
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I glued the mahogany veneer to one side of the sides then added the
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Now it is just a matter of making a top, gluing the base togeather, and adding a finish.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-15213898520322062622013-09-28T07:06:00.000-04:002013-09-28T07:11:16.950-04:00Starting The First Chevalet Project<br />
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This project was long ago in the plans when I first started to build the Chevalet. As I mentioned in a previous post that I got the plans from an online friend who lives in Vancouver B.C. and is a retired shipwright. On one of his fist chevy's that he built he added a little marquetry of a ship to the front bracket as a base line to remind him of where he started on his chevy.<br />
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We corresponded through email and the woodworking site <a href="http://lumberjocks.com/" target="_blank"><b>Lumberjocks</b></a> through the build and he ask if I was going to add the marquetry to the front which I said I was.Well as a little shout out to him for his generous help and the plans I thought I would place one of the many lighthouses that occupy the coast of Vancouver on the front of my chevy. <br />
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After I finished the build and was working out the plans for the marquetry I found out about a program called <a href="http://inkscape.org/" target="_blank"><u><b>Inkscape</b></u></a> that people are using to do tracing's of their pictures to use in their marquetry. This is a great program for this type of work and I have just scratched the surface on what you can do with this program.<br />
I printed out several copies of the tracing so that I could cut different parts from them. You can actually break up your tracing into parts on Inkscape but I have yet to master that technique and wanted to get going on the project so I'll just have to try that on the next one.<br />
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I found out it is best to group a number of small parts together into a packet and avoid small packets that are hard to work with on the chevy. You are actually pinching the packet while cutting as apposed to it lying on a table on a scroll saw. I have much more accuracy with this tool but its real hard to try to cut small packets.<br />
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With all the parts cut out I thought I might try a few different backgrounds and see what happens. I wanted to make the veneer in the backgrounds radiate from one side to sort of give the impression of light. The first background I cut was in figured ash and I cut the strips a little short so it was placed centered in the piece,it doesn't match the shadow lines of the picture but I kept it just the same. It worked out well for the ones I did in eucalyptus and one was done in just plain cherry.<br />
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After the pictures were in there backgrounds I added some detail to the one I was going to use for the chevalet, just some lines in the windows for dividers, the back deck and upper part of the tower for the railings.I glued it to the front bracket with Old Brown Glue and the chevy was finally finished now I will probably end up making four boxes to use the other pictures on but that can wait.<br />
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. I ran a little short on wood from my initial maple board that I was using so I made a few parts from some cherry I had on hand. The saw frame is made from cherry and a couple brackets that hold the saw mechanism are also cherry. The maple is a little dark and the cherry is a little light from being just cut so they look like they are the same shade, but as the light hits the cherry that will change.<br />
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I decided not to put any finish on it as of now and was told the chevys at <a href="http://www.americanschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/" target="_blank"><u><b>ASFM</b></u> </a>don't have a finish and are holding up very well. I may decide to just add a little oil finish to it. The whole saw, well about 95% of it was glued together using<a href="http://www.oldbrownglue.com/store.html" target="_blank"> <b>"Old Brown Glue"</b></a> a liguid hide glue sold by Patrick Edwards at ASFM.<br />
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It took a little time to get the saw adjusted to cut at a perfect 90deg. I made several test cuts making adjustment to the saw frame at the vertical and horizontal adjusters behind the saw after every test. When I was happy it was cutting right I put together a small veneer packet of 4 veneers and cut a bird as a test. It was cut in about 10 min. and was just to see if the parts would fit. I can already tell how much more control I have with this saw and canot wait to get started on a real project.<br />
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All remains to do is add a little piece of marquetry on the front pc. were the 4 bolts hold the horizontal arm,this will of course be cut on the chevalet.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-76318256091345743792013-07-21T16:57:00.000-04:002013-07-21T16:57:58.923-04:00 CHEVALET DE MARQUETERIE ( The Main Structure) I spent some time getting all the main parts cut and fitted. Here are a couple photos of the start of my chevy build.
As you can see its just the main bones of the tool. I have a few things
to refine or should I say clean up but I think I’m off to a good start. The joinery for vertical arm that supports the saw carriage is not done yet, there are two pieces that need to be glued to the side of the main vertical post, and nothing is glued up. I can see even at this stage that this
is a pretty beefy tool. I used almost that whole piece of wood I posted
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close enough with the wood from that pc. I guess all the easy work is
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I have been kicking around the idea of building this french marquetry tool for some time and after my last project I thought it was time. I have seen the work that can be done from this tool and it is amazing I'm not saying that it cannot be done from a scroll saw because I have seen the work of some of the masters like <a href="http://www.silaskopf.com/" target="_blank"><b>Silas Koptf </b></a>and<b> <a href="http://www.schurchwoodwork.com/" target="_blank">Paul Schurch</a></b> do amazing things with the scroll saw but I just don't seem to be able to get real good results when cutting small parts or lettering from my scroll saw so I try to avoid doing it whenever possible.<br />
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I am a member of a online woodworking group called<a href="http://lumberjocks.com/" target="_blank"> <b>Lumber Jocks</b></a><b> </b>and there is several people who have built this tool and have promissed me all the help I need. They also have a forum just for "chevy" owners and those interested in them. The owner of <b><a href="http://www.americanschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/" target="_blank">The American School of French Marquetry</a></b> Patick Edwards and <b><a href="http://www.patricelejeune.com/Home.html" target="_blank">Patrice Lajune</a></b> who works with Patrick building and restoring furniture are also members of this site and are a wealth of knowledge.<br />
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There is one person from this site who is also great help,<b> </b><a href="http://prmdesigns.com/" target="_blank"><b>Paul Miller (shipwright)</b>.</a> He did a blog on his build of his first "chevy" and also did a <b><i><a href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1299d57b8d519f17a87f17765a809382" target="_blank">sketchup pattern</a></i></b> for it. These two things are going to be invaluable to building this. Soooooo with all that side here is a picture of the Chevalet in its early stage ....... well actulaly its just a peice a maple 9'' x 4.25" x 12' I should be very close to enough wood for this project but if not I have a few pc's of maple I could use but it won't be a good color match with the different woods but as its just a tool I'm sure I could live with that.<br />
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It is that time of the year when I go to <a href="http://www.marcadams.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Marc Adams School of Woodworking</b></span></a>, well at least it is that time of year this year because classes run from April to November and depending on the class I can be at the school any time during the year. This year it was a class given by<span style="color: red;"><b> <a href="http://www.orthfurniture.com/" target="_blank">David Orth</a></b></span> called "Curvy Furniture Using Boat Building Techniques". It was a really interesting class given by a very knowledgeable instructor. The first day we jumped in with both feet and started building a small stand to get us acquainted to the process.<br />
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We used 1/8" MDF to make forms using a boat building method
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When the form is completed to this point You paint the inside with thin
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Inside supports and the case bottom.<br />
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You can see the fillet of epoxy and a hole added to the supports. The hole is added in case the table is ever shipped in an airplane cargo, this will allow the piece to pressurize so it wont get crushed in un-pressurized cargo storage. Because the inside is sealed and under different pressure this has actually happened to a former student shipping a project home!<br />
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When this dries you cut the wires and use the same thickened epoxy to seal the corners of the outside because there is a small gap where the corners meet. This is sanded smooth latter.<br />
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<b> As you can see below we had a real collection of tables going </b><br />
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In the photo above you can see some of these little stands have the tops on them. These were added at the same time the inside was epoxied but before the outside corners were done. Some of the people also painted the outside with the thin epoxy but it is recommended to only do this if you plan to paint the piece. When we finished this little table we had a chance to try this on a larger scale. I chose to make a larger table from a pattern supplied by David Orth, this is the same table I had seen in the school catalog for this class and one of the reason's I chose to take this class.<br />
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As of today I have finished the first table with some mahogany and what Ive been told is quilted/pommele sapele veneer for the top. I will post the other table when it is finished. This is a very interesting way of making furniture and there is a lot of information on the stitch and glue method of boat building out there so if your interested give it try and leave a comment if you have any questions.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-82253341532029037322013-06-19T21:38:00.000-04:002013-06-19T21:39:48.535-04:00Finishing The Blanket ChestWell its been almost two months since my last post but I haven't been totally lazy. I spent a week at <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.marcadams.com/" target="_blank">MASW</a></span></b> </span>and finished a small table and have a good start on another much larger one but that's a whole other post. When I last posted I had all the the parts milled for two chest's and panels done for one. I decided to just get one finished and do the second when I was sure what I wanted to do for the panels on the second. So with that decision made it was just a matter of putting it together and to put a finish on it. I thought I would try something I have never done before and finish all the parts before I glued up the project. I am becoming more of a fan of shellac as time goes on because of the tones it brings out in the wood and the fact that it can be easily be repaired if it is damaged. Everything was glued-up and put together after several coats of shellac. I used garnet for the first coat and then all the other were added using blond shellac. After the frame of the box was done I added some 1"x 1" stips to the bottom styles as supports for the plywood bottom.<br />
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I used a piece of wood as a story stick to make sure all the supports would be the same distance from the top of the legs. A couple of clamps to hold them in place and just screw them, no measuring involved. Simple and easy.<br />
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I was going to use solid cherry for the bottom but was a little worried about expansion so I was I was going to have to use ship lap joints.I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out so I thought I might just as well use plywood and cover it with cedar. <br />
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You can see in the pic the plywood base for the red cedar closet lining that I bought at Lowes. Its tongue and grove so it was just a matter of cutting the pieces to fit the plywood leaving a little space between pieces for expansion and contraction. I did run a small line of glue down the middle of each pc.and brad nailed them to the plywood to help hold them down.<br />
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After the bottom was put in I attached the top using a brass piano hing with intentions of adding a couple lid supports, but because I added wood to the top back style to beef it up for the hing, the supports I bought wouldn't fit. I'm still trying to find a set that will work.<br />
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Below Is a few pictures of the finished blanket chest. I'm happy with the results now I just have to decide how I want the second one to look.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-17457157550924063162013-04-19T20:18:00.001-04:002013-04-21T19:11:51.587-04:00Blanket Chest Panels & Final MillingIts hard to believe its been almost a month since my last post but as I've had a little less time to spend in the shop and quite honestly hate heating the place up when its cold only to spend a hour or so out there. Well its getting warmer now so I have no more excuses. After some time spent milling all the parts a second time closer to the final dimension I started to get all the panels cut to size for at least one of the two blanket chest. I plan to make two chest, one of oak and another from butternut. I made a decision on what I want to use for the frame with the eucalyptus veneer. I was really leaning strongly toward the ebonized oak but the butternut was such a close match I went with that.<br />
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I only cut the panels for one chest because I thought that the thickness of the veneer would determine the width of the dado's cut in the frame parts but after they were all glued up I realized I was going to have to cut a small rabbet in the back side of the panels to make them fit properly in the 13/16" wide parts.<br />
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I did all the final milling to size and cut 3/8 dado's in the parts were it was needed and sanded all the parts to 120 grit. It was now just a matter of fine tuning the fit of the panels to the dado's cut in the parts. <br />
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Before I could glue up the panels I had to get all the veneer
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I had to play around a bit with the placement of the bird and
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I chose to use cherry for the back of the panels because I didn't have enough eucalyptus veneer for both sides and the inside will seldom be seen. I had a few square feet of another batch of eucalyptus veneer that was not a match to the outside of the chest but I thought I would use it for the underside of the lid so when it was opened it would at least be the same type of wood as the outside.<br />
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As of today I have all 7 panels done with the little stamen inlay-ed into the flowers after they were glued up. They are all sanded to 220 grit and I plan on finishing this project with an amber shellac. I just like the way it looks on the wood. It's not be the most durable finish so I might cover that with a couple coats a lacquer. I plan to finish all the panels before I put it all together so if there is any wood movement in the future you won't see any unfinished wood. Below are the panels unfinished<br />
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I have been keeping a journal of time on this project, something I never do but I was curious how long this project would take. As of now I have a little over 80 hours but that includes some time milling wood for a second project ( I would say about 3 or 4 hours). I don't know if this is good or bad but after its all done I'll ask some professional furniture makers what they think to get an idea were I stand.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-86046675831210628672013-03-18T12:16:00.001-04:002013-03-18T12:16:11.026-04:00A Little Side Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Since the last blog entry about 3 weeks ago I have been busy but it sure doesn't look like it from what I have to show for it. My wife is setting up her quilt studio in the front parlor of our old house.Well after not being used for anything other than storage she laid claim to it and is moving out of her "Sewing Hole", her former work space in another room also in our house.</div>
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Her design wall is a 8'X11' wall completely covered in fabric. I needed to make the frames that would hold the foam board that she covered with fabric, mount these along with a full sheet of peg board to another wall and mount the track lighting around the room. With that done I was ask very nicely to build her a sewing table that was a little more comfortable to sew on than the work table she presently uses. She wanted it to be 24"X48"X30" high with 16" deep shelves on one side and an inset in the table so her machine would sit flush with the table.</div>
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The whole thing was made from a single sheet of 1/2" plywood a couple of cherry 4x4's for the legs and a small piece a cherry to hide the poplar supports holding the machine. It was held together with pocket screw joinery and only took a day to build from start to finish but I was informed that it still needs a couple of wings on the left side and back that can fold out when she is working on a larger project. There isn't any finish on it because I'm not sure if its getting painted or not.</div>
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The last of the marquetry on the blanket chest is almost done and I made a series butterflies to chose from. Not quit sure which ones I'll use yet. I might do a few more or just chose from these one's below. </div>
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Once I was back in the shop actually cutting wood I decided to make two chest, one made from oak and another from butternut. The oak will get ebonized and I chose the butternut because it was a good color match with the eucalyptus. I'm not sure I'll use the butternut with the eucalyptus because I saw some furniture made from eucalyptus that had legs and rails that were ebonized and it looked great but that's a decision for another day . </div>
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The butternut was cut from some boards I have that are 18'' wide and 16' long that have been sitting in my garage for years. I wanted to use them as wide boards but I never found the right project so I cut one up for this one.</div>
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As of today I rough milled all the parts, stickerd them for a few days, and milled them closer to final dimension. It's almost hard to believe how much wood will move after it is cut up from a large board to smaller pieces<br />
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The last month or so I had few weeks off from work and could work on this more than just weekends but now I'm back to work and I will probably be a weekend warrior again with a growing list of other projects that need done around the house but I think I'm getting close to actually starting to build theses chest's.I don't want to think about the seven cords of wood that need cut for next year and the metal roof that needs put on the garage after I fix the rotted wood on the foundation making the whole side of garage sag. I love spring but it always brings chores that get in the way of my woodworking!</div>
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I am finally at the point were I can do something besides cut out little leaves on these lilies. I have one side (not including the back) and the top that have nothing on them so that is were I was going to add some butterflies. I don't' want this chest covered with butterflies so I plan to just add 2 or 3 to to one of these panels and a bird to the other just to break it up a little. <br />
I started with the bird first. I found a picture of a White-fronted Bee-eater on <b><a href="http://pinterest.com/tinnman65/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></b> that I liked. This site is a great resource for inspiration and images to use. <br />
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I picked out some veneers that I thought would work. I only had one shade of green and its a little dark but I went with it anyway and as this is really only a representation of the picture who will know the difference. The picture below shows the birds side by side before I add some sand shading detail.<br />
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This little guy only took a little over an hour to do so it shouldn't take to long to get the rest of the marquetry done on this project. I have to make him a branch to sit on but that's pretty easy but it might have leaves on it...... <u><b>Sigh</b></u>! Now its just a few simple butterflies to finish up.<br />
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For the other parts of the marquetry I'll chose the colors when I get there. The back ground is figured eucalyptus. With all those leaves in the picture you have to work from the background to the foreground or you can get in trouble.After the pieces are cut I sand shade them to give the image a little
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On this project I'm using the double bevel method of cutting that I learned from Marc Adams at <a href="http://www.marcadams.com/available-classes/veneering/1180/?query=misc0.eq.Visible&back=classes" target="_blank"><b>Marc Adams School of Woodworking</b></a>, you set
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The first flower I did in the form of packets that I cut into the background but as I started the next one I realized it just wasn't going to be able to be done that way so the second and third flowers would have to be cut in as you go right into the background veneer. I thought it would save time making the packets and cutting them into the background later.The flowers were no problem doing in the packet form and setting into the background but what I should have realized was the trouble I was going to have with the tiny pieces in between the leaves that would need to be cut out and how they would crumble under the slightest of stress and of course be remade. This was a true test of my patience, trying to make tiny pieces without them crumbling wasn't easy and a couple of them took several times and were a bit time consuming. Now this is not the first time I've done this and you would think I would have learned by now but I didn't.<br />
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These tiger lilies have little stamen that protrude out of the middle of the flowers and I have yet to add them but from the pictures above you get a good idea of what they will look like placed in the eucalyptus background. I am by no means an expert at this but with every project I get a little better and for now I'm happy with the results I'm getting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10092510891918137373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375316163503353685.post-24790010104667214842013-01-31T20:54:00.000-05:002013-02-11T13:02:03.770-05:00Starting A Lilly Blanket Chest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once a year in July the Stonewall Gallery gallery located in the basement of <b><a href="http://www.campbellpotterystore.com/" target="_blank">Campbell Pottery</a> </b>in Edinboro Pa. holds the <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Lily Festival Juried Art Show</span>.</i></span> </b>I have been entering this show for the last three<b> </b>years and have sold a few things and I got my first commission from this show.<br />
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Well its time to get started on this years entry and I think this years project will be pretty ambitious. I've made a couple tables and some small boxes for this show so I wanted to try something different this year. I remembered seeing some real nice blanket chest on the web and had kept a few pics for inspiration. One of my favorites from these was from <b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ctfinefurniture.com/" target="_blank">Craig Thibodeau Fine Furniture</a></span></span>.</b><a href="http://ctfinefurniture.com/"><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></a><br />
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I kind of liked the idea of not worrying about using Cedar in this chest as a lot of these blanket chest don't use it.<br />
I almost forgot how much time is spent researching and planning something like this. I haven't any drawing skills to speak of so I find pictures from books,magazines, the net, or were ever I can find them. I then copy or print them out and do tracing's to come up with my pictures for marquetry.<br />
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This is a collection of images I used for the tracing's to get the pictures I'll use for the marquetry. I print them in black and white and then use a light box I made to trace them onto tracing paper.<br />
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On this project I combined a number of images to create the pictures, sort of like a mash-up, leaves from one picture with flowers from another. I want to add some other things to bring interest into this like a dragonfly, a Lilly leaf beatle,and a couple butterfly's, so I made prints of those also. <br />
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I have a pretty good idea of how I want this to look so it will just be a matter of drawing up a couple of sketches to nail down exactly what I will build but I can actually get started on the marquetry while I iron out the design. I just hope I have enough time to get this thing done before the deadline. <br />
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I've been wanting to post some ideas I had for my next project but have been just plain lazy about that so I thought I would post a couple pics of a log I brought back from Point Rock N.Y. I was there delivering the pine chair to my Mother-in-Law and had a nice Amish guy cut me an ash log he cut down. I had my Father-in -Law tell him to cut anything under 12" into 8/4 and the rest into 4/4, Well what I didn't know at the time was it was all well over 12" so it was all cut to 4/4. I think the widest board is 27"!!! He told me It was going to be $.70 a BF but the whole log was only $180 so I think it was a lot less. He usually only saws hemlock but the last time I talked to him I told him I would buy any hardwood he came across.<br />
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It was getting dark when I got back so all I did was stack it on some elevated 4x4's and cover it. It's raining today so I will probably wait to sticker and re-stack it. There was mention of a cherry tree he found so I will definitely be stopping back for a visit to my new favorite saw mill. I don't know of any other mills that sell baked goods as well. Lumber, cookies,pies,and home made donuts, what more could you ask? </div>
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