The week ended on a downer for this guy when our Montreal football team failed to come through in our Canadian championship game. The 96th Grey Cup, which pits the Western division champs against the Eastern champs was held in Montreal yesterday and unfortunately the local team was too gracious as host, and let the team from Calgary win. Once again, it is "wait till next year".
The wine rack is finally finished, but not without a last little hicup. After applying the coat of ebony stain to the top, I noticed all sorts of swirl marks from sanding. This after an initial sanding through four grades with the ROS, and then three gades by hand with the grain both before and after installing the screw plugs. Of course as usual, I couldn't just stop there so I applied the first coat of cabernet stain hoping it would reduce the marks. No such luck, so it was back to sanding through two coats of stain. The only good thing was it was easy to see when all the swirls were gone.
I then finished three more bread knives, and made a list of six possible projects that I would like to complete for the craft show on Dec. 7th. I'll be lucky if I get three done, but I did manage to glue up five blanks to make some letter openers which is one of the projects on the list.
A feature in today's local paper focussed on all the Canadians going down to Plattsburgh, N.Y., or Burlington Vt. to take advantage of all the sales on Black Friday.
On that note, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone south of the border!
John
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baysidebob
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John, really a nice looking wine rack. Not sure where some of you woodworkers get your time from. Guess one of these days I will have to retire, then maybe I would have time t do some of these things that looks so beautiful.
Sorry to hear that your football team was just to kind to the visiting team. Like you say wait till next year.
Bayside Bob, Ca.
Sorry to hear that your football team was just to kind to the visiting team. Like you say wait till next year.
Bayside Bob, Ca.
Very nice looking wine rack, John!!!
Yes I have also run into those cross grain sanding marks, sometimes in swirls. After learning (the hard way) that stain or finish will not cover defects, I do all finish sanding with the grain. I also found out that wiping wood with mineral spirits will show the sanding marks you don't want. Then you can sand them out and wipe it down again. So it has become a common practice to first wipe with mineral spirits and letting it evaporate, before any finish.
Sorry John, but I have always gone with Western teams in all sports, US and Canadian. But the Eastern/Western rivalries make it more interesting.
Bob! - Yes it is very ice to be retired! If only it didn't have to come with aging and the weakening of body parts. My shop is my retreat! One of it's best features is -keeps me out of the wife's hair most of the time.
My shop work this past week has been limited to planning, head scratching and trials on how to make a curved back on the little seat. I have never made a chair before so had really no idea on how to even draw it up, let alone fit a back to the seat. Made a curved top for the back. (curves horizontally as well as vertically) Decided on a backward slope of the back, the same as on our kitchen chairs. Made up my mind on how to attach it to the seat and produced the support slats and end supports. Now comes the process of shaping the slats to fit between the chair seat and the top of the back. This is fun, although, very slow work.
One of the new to me processes this week was making the butt and leg recesses in the oak seat. Thought that would be better than a flat one. Since I don't have a curved draw knife, I did the forming with a card scraper and a corner sander. Took over a day! Boy were my fingers tired!
Funny thing! after coming into the house and telling my wife there is now a formed seat, her comment was, "Why!, I'll probably just put stuff on it rather than sitting on it.!"
Jeez! I had mistakenly thought a phone seat was for sitting. After explaining the bottom drawer would hold all of the phone books, she said, "Oh"
I couldn't help but think -- Ah!, the fun of communication and custom work in a long lasting and loving marriage!
There has been good discussions on the Forum re: using Google Sketchup. I've found the videos along with version 7 to be very instructive. Maybe one of these days I'll be able to put it to good use.
Hopefully, next week there will be a finished phone seat.
Yes I have also run into those cross grain sanding marks, sometimes in swirls. After learning (the hard way) that stain or finish will not cover defects, I do all finish sanding with the grain. I also found out that wiping wood with mineral spirits will show the sanding marks you don't want. Then you can sand them out and wipe it down again. So it has become a common practice to first wipe with mineral spirits and letting it evaporate, before any finish.
Sorry John, but I have always gone with Western teams in all sports, US and Canadian. But the Eastern/Western rivalries make it more interesting.
Bob! - Yes it is very ice to be retired! If only it didn't have to come with aging and the weakening of body parts. My shop is my retreat! One of it's best features is -keeps me out of the wife's hair most of the time.
My shop work this past week has been limited to planning, head scratching and trials on how to make a curved back on the little seat. I have never made a chair before so had really no idea on how to even draw it up, let alone fit a back to the seat. Made a curved top for the back. (curves horizontally as well as vertically) Decided on a backward slope of the back, the same as on our kitchen chairs. Made up my mind on how to attach it to the seat and produced the support slats and end supports. Now comes the process of shaping the slats to fit between the chair seat and the top of the back. This is fun, although, very slow work.
One of the new to me processes this week was making the butt and leg recesses in the oak seat. Thought that would be better than a flat one. Since I don't have a curved draw knife, I did the forming with a card scraper and a corner sander. Took over a day! Boy were my fingers tired!
Funny thing! after coming into the house and telling my wife there is now a formed seat, her comment was, "Why!, I'll probably just put stuff on it rather than sitting on it.!"
Jeez! I had mistakenly thought a phone seat was for sitting. After explaining the bottom drawer would hold all of the phone books, she said, "Oh"
I couldn't help but think -- Ah!, the fun of communication and custom work in a long lasting and loving marriage!
There has been good discussions on the Forum re: using Google Sketchup. I've found the videos along with version 7 to be very instructive. Maybe one of these days I'll be able to put it to good use.
Hopefully, next week there will be a finished phone seat.
Octogenarian's have an earned right to be a curmudgeon.
Chuck in Lancaster, CA
Chuck in Lancaster, CA
Thanks for the compliments guys!
Bayside Bob:
I'm not sure retirement is the answer. Besides some of the "natural" drawbacks mentioned by Chuck, I found that I got more WW done while I was working. Good stress relief! Now that I am retired, I seem to work harder at relaxing, coffe with the paper, etc., than in the shop.
Chuck:
You wouldn't believe the effort I took to avoid sanding marks. Besides hand sanding with the grain, I applied water to raise it and then sanded some more hoping that would help as I expected seeing marks with the dark stain. Obvioulsly I didn't quite sand enough. Oh well, as with the football game, "maybe next time".
Have fun.
John
Bayside Bob:
I'm not sure retirement is the answer. Besides some of the "natural" drawbacks mentioned by Chuck, I found that I got more WW done while I was working. Good stress relief! Now that I am retired, I seem to work harder at relaxing, coffe with the paper, etc., than in the shop.
Chuck:
You wouldn't believe the effort I took to avoid sanding marks. Besides hand sanding with the grain, I applied water to raise it and then sanded some more hoping that would help as I expected seeing marks with the dark stain. Obvioulsly I didn't quite sand enough. Oh well, as with the football game, "maybe next time".
Have fun.
John
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pinkiewerewolf
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Football...I'm a Chargers and Vikings fan so not a great year for me.
John, the wine rack looks great! You did a fine job and that rack would look great in any setting.
Chuck, I grew up with a chair that the seat would fold back so you could use it like a step stool in the kitchen. I still miss that chair. Maybe a future idea for a project.
John, the wine rack looks great! You did a fine job and that rack would look great in any setting.
Chuck, I grew up with a chair that the seat would fold back so you could use it like a step stool in the kitchen. I still miss that chair. Maybe a future idea for a project.
John, aka. Pinkie. 1-520, 1-510 & a Shorty, OPR. 520 upgrade, Band Saw, Jig Saw, scroll saw, Jointer, Jointech Saw Train.
Delta Benchtop planer, Makita LS1016L 10" sliding compound miter saw, Trojan manf. (US Made)Miter saw work center, MiniMax MM16 bandsaw.
Squire of the Shopsmith. ...hmmmm, maybe knave, pawn, or wretch would be more appropriate for me.
Delta Benchtop planer, Makita LS1016L 10" sliding compound miter saw, Trojan manf. (US Made)Miter saw work center, MiniMax MM16 bandsaw.Squire of the Shopsmith. ...hmmmm, maybe knave, pawn, or wretch would be more appropriate for me.
Pinky;
I read your comment about your favorite chair. If you go on the New Yankee website I think it is called a library chair.
If it is not there then try old archives of Wood Magazine for a set of plans.
Library chairs were designed to be chairs as well as step stool to reach books on upper shelves and they were also used as step stools in kitchens.
Bill
I read your comment about your favorite chair. If you go on the New Yankee website I think it is called a library chair.
If it is not there then try old archives of Wood Magazine for a set of plans.
Library chairs were designed to be chairs as well as step stool to reach books on upper shelves and they were also used as step stools in kitchens.
Bill