woodworking

This Memory Desk is a tool to record all the small items you write down once, but intend to forget tomorrow. I've come to realize that I'm somewhat obsessed with how we remember the past. This is the latest installment…

In the better late than never camp, I just finished off the new cold frame (an unheated green house). This is a project that started this summer, and I needed to finish it before first snow so that we can get the cars…

This print was bought at least 2 years ago, finally got around to building the frame for it. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, just need to sort out some hangers and it will be the new art up over my home office…

These cedar benches were built by my father a number of years ago, after we took down a bunch of trees on the property, including some 100 year old cedar trees. After 3 years of weathering their original finish had worn…

One of the reasons that I started getting so excited working with wood this summer was because of my purchase of a Kreg Jig . I was introduced to this tool at the IBM Day of Service by a few folks that built furniture as…

Besides picking 7lbs of blueberries this weekend, I also managed a lot of progress on 2 of my wood working tasks. This is my shot glass collection shelf, probably to be mounted tonight. 7' 7" long, 3" wide,…

While the room still has some work to do, the shelves are now complete. They'll be full of stuff starting in a couple of days. For my first finish level of wood working, I'm pretty pleased how they turned out.

The bright sun light throws it off a bit, but that's basically what the shelves will look like once they are done. The painting portion of this adventure starts tonight. Also, that's not barrel distortion, the shelves…

Today's progress after taking the day off of work. That's the minimal amount of attached parts that I need to keep it the right shape. Also, I am full of / covered in sawdust.

We've been running this all weekend, heating the whole house. What a wonderful thing a woodstove is.

Just installed in our living room. Here's to a winter of wood fires.

We finished the deck last night, by doing the last 16 ballisters for the stair way. It's an odd sense of both accomplishment and loss at the same time. Since sometime in February I've been focussed on the deck as a…

I realize that I've been rather silent about the deck since before concrete pouring weekend. The deck is nearly done, with only 16 ballisters left on the stairs to go. That will hopefully be completed on Tuesday night,…

More pictures of the ongoing deck project.

The Building Inspector came yesterday, and signed off on the holes we dug. He was quick to notice that we hit rock, so the depth of the holes isn't an issue... yay! While we probably didn't have to go quite so crazy in…

The Deck Project marches on. Last weekend I managed to round up a few trusty friends (Jay, Mike, Pyg), and dig the 4 holes required to pour concrete footings for the deck. Town of LaGrange code calls for 42" holes,…

This Saturday I fully committed to building my new deck, by taking down the old one. Fortunately, the demolition went pretty quickly due to help from Jay and . Taking down the deck also required moving the outside…

After three years, the idea that "we should really look at our spices, consolidate, and throw out old ones", we finally began that project. What looked like an hours worth of work on Saturday, rapidly turned…

It was a good weekend. A lot of time spent outside, a lot of things accomplished. Apparently this was the weekend to get rid of the carpet on the porch, which I didn't realize until Susan said "come help me rip up…