Tag: walnut
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I made some new friends! A couple approached me at an arts and crafts fair and asked if I would be interested in replacing the shaft on an old cane from 1894. Apparently, the Kansas City Fire Department Insurance Company issued canes to patrons. The story goes that if you didn’t purchase the insurance, they…
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What makes a home, but a comfortable dining room table? This custom Walnut and Padauk table and bench has been a labor of love for me. Check it out if you dare.
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Walnut bench makes a great entry way sitting area.
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Despite my lack of posts, I have been producing. One item is a second Walnut Mantel for my Aunt’s basement fireplaces. The lumber was only milled so I over cut the pieces and sent them through the planer. I cut the 45s and used 4 90 deg clamps for the corners. Some people say that…
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I lightly clamped the lid of the catalpa box to the base so that I could mount the hardware. I used the ever-reliable ice pick to mark the front latch and piloted the screws with a small bit and screwed in the screws. The screw heads that come with the hardware are so fragile that…
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With the outer catalpa box nearly done, I started to assemble the spalted maple inner box. I’ve decided to make the inner box a kind of box with a drawer with a knob on the top to pull it out of the outer box. I’m thinking the box will be quarter inch Baltic birch with…
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I used the hand plane to clean up where the lid meets the body. I am really wanting a disk sander to make these surfaces cleaner and tighter. I’ve been thinking it is probably the next machine I will get, so I might start watching the internet for one. At any rate, I cleaned it…
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The epoxy set overnight. I scraped the epoxy down to the surface with a hand planer. I sanded the areas with 110 grit. The area on the right is sanded. The one on the left is not. It takes a bit of elbow grease to get through the epoxy, but eventually it comes up. The…
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I’ve had a 2″ x ~10″ x ~5′ walnut board hanging around for a couple weeks with the intention of making walnut cutting boards out of it. I spent the morning planing it down and thinned it to around 1 3/4″. I cut off the edges and then cut it halfway to make it more…
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We installed the walnut mantel on the fireplace and to my satisfaction, I got the measurements correct. The original mantel that I built this in top of was not as level as I had remembered it. I need to always check that measurement during the prep if I do another project like this. Regardless, we…