Gallery of completed woodworking projects

terrydowning · Post by **terrydowning** » Wed May 25, 2011 12:00 pm

A very handsome grill setup indeed. Nice work.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Wed May 25, 2011 1:36 pm

Good Job! What is the 'Egg' setting on?

tdubnik · Post by **tdubnik** » Wed May 25, 2011 3:13 pm

JPG40504 wrote:Good Job! What is the 'Egg' setting on?

It is sitting on a regular cement patio block. This insulates the table from the heat of the egg. I might try to find something nicer, but this will do for now.

The hole in the tabletop is also cut to provide about 1/2" clearance around the egg for the same reason. This helps to prevent any scorching or fires.

mrhart · Post by **mrhart** » Wed May 25, 2011 3:53 pm

I've seen the ones they sell with the Eggs, yours is much nicer.

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Wed May 25, 2011 11:57 pm

Excelent cart, T.D.!:D Beautiful workmanship!

pessen · Post by **pessen** » Sat May 28, 2011 7:09 pm

Wow, that looks amazing. Nice job on the table. I had never heard of the BGE's. How do you like yours so far? Could you give us a quick review? Is it worth the price in your opinion?

After doing a little looking at what they say a BGE can do, you may have just given me the grill to put at the top of my grill/smoker wishlist!

tdubnik wrote:Finished up two tables recently for my son and myself. My wife and son gave my large Egg for Christmas and after my son tasted some of the food coming off the egg he decided he had to have one too. So now we are a two Egg family and if I build something for mine I also have to make one for him too.

So here are the tables. They are made from cypress finished with 4 coats of Helmsman Spar Urethane. The working surface is solid granite with wood edging. Hanging hooks on the left and a handle/towel holder on the right. The drawer holds most of my eggsessories so far.

The wooden part of the top and the shelf are built solid with no gaps. I did this to keep water and dirt out of the drawer. I attached the top and shelf so they could move a little without splitting as the humidity and temperature changes.

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Shop_Smith_Poppi · Post by **Shop_Smith_Poppi** » Sun May 29, 2011 12:16 am

Originally Posted by terrydowning
I volunteered to make pens as gifts to the graduating seniors in our Music Program.

School colors are blue and gold. Turned in PSI Oceana Colorgrain, Designer 24K with year bands and treble clef clips. Finish is 3-4 coats of medium CA sanded to 600 polished with maguires scratchX and maguires gold formula carnuba wax.

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Not just 10 Graduates

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But 27 so I decided to make 30 in case there were any bad ones.

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Just 27 huh? My youngest daughter just graduated last Friday her class had 440 graduates. took 3 hours for the ceremony to finish good thing they hold it in Barn Hill Arena (University of Arkansas Basketball Arena).

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun May 29, 2011 12:31 am

Shop_Smith_Poppi wrote:Just 27 huh? My youngest daughter just graduated last Friday her class had 440 graduates. took 3 hours for the ceremony to finish good thing they hold it in Barn Hill Arena (University of Arkansas Basketball Arena).

How many of those 440 were 'Music' students?;)

Shop_Smith_Poppi · Post by **Shop_Smith_Poppi** » Sun May 29, 2011 1:44 am

Well the choir had about 30 seniors this year and I believe there were around 100 seniors in the band. And about 20 - 40 in the orchestra. My daughter was in Choir.

So some where around 150 - 170 of them were in music programs of some kind.

tdubnik · Post by **tdubnik** » Sun May 29, 2011 6:29 am

pessen wrote:Wow, that looks amazing. Nice job on the table. I had never heard of the BGE's. How do you like yours so far? Could you give us a quick review? Is it worth the price in your opinion?

After doing a little looking at what they say a BGE can do, you may have just given me the grill to put at the top of my grill/smoker wishlist!

The Egg is an amazing grill. You can slow cook pork butts or ribs at 225 degrees all day on one fill of charcoal and it holds temperature very well. I have also cooked homemade pizzas at 750 degrees and they only take 6 to 8 minutes.

There is a learning curve to using this grill but it goes pretty fast if you are good with other charcoal grills. The main thing is to slowly get up to your desired temperature because if you overshoot, it takes a while for it to come back down.

It is definitely worth the money if you do a lot of grilling. I use mine 4 to 5 times a week. Prior to the Egg I used a Weber charcoal grill but since I got this one, I have given both of my Webers away.