Changing the wood one shaving at a time ;0)
Everybody learns differently: some people research and research before they try things, others of us like to try things first to figure out what we don’t know, then go do a little more research about what went wrong ;0) It’s easier for me to remember why you do things a certain way when you’ve experienced… Continue reading Lessons in Milling Logs
We used to have a wind row of spruce trees on the east side of our house.
At this point in this project I’m beginning to feel like I might never get done....and that I will run out of logs before I cover the floor :0/. I’ve been milling the logs into as many 3x6” beams as I can. Sometimes it’s only 1, other logs have had up to 3 good beams… Continue reading Shop Floor Part II
I actually didn’t have much of anything to do with this phase :0/ since it’s a six hour drive to mom’s house, I wasn’t able to actually unwrap the piles of cute fabric with her when everything was ready for the shelves that were built in Part II to be filled. I thought I had… Continue reading Mom’s Quilt Shop Part III
As careful as we wood workers try to be in the shop, accidents happen and set you back for a while. Such an accident happened on July 7th this year. I was working on some oak Adirondack chairs when the wood went the opposite way I intended it to at the router table. The short… Continue reading Accidents happen :0(
Not long after Mary came out to build her Tool box Cora wandered out to the shop and wanted to build something too. Her idea was a little different though ;0). She wanted a box with a hinged lid. I always save the hinges when I take them off things...but the kids are gaining on… Continue reading Cora’s Boks
I think it was last September or October I went to Home Depot and spent an hour trying to find the best quarter sawn 2x10’s I could in the rack thinking I would be whipping out my very own portable Moravian bench in short order...not so much, I’m still working on it. Last month sometime… Continue reading Mary’s Toolbox
My grandma who is 93 has a cedar chest my mom is going to use in her quilt shop. Back in the day if you really liked a girl, you gave her a cedar chest. Her sister was given two and didn’t need both, so gave this one to Grandma. She must have been popular… Continue reading Grandma’s Cedar Chest
Last time in Part I of Mom’s Quilt shop I had built her some shelving to store her fabric on, but needed to come back home before I could finish it for her. Wes stayed to help out and they puttied, sanded, primed and painted everything they could and organized piles of stuff. We went… Continue reading Mom’s Quilt Shop Part II
Girl with a Hand Plane 