Few Bits

Answer…table numbers! #woodworking #tablesaw

In my happy place. Picked out some nice cherry and maple to make my Kickstarter rewards.

I launched a Kickstarter today, for a fun woodworking webseries.  Check it out!  I’ll make you something if you contribute!

I gave my husband a loose lid box I turned in my woodturning class and he took it to work and put it on his desk.  One of his coworkers saw it and requested a stash box for her boyfriend’s Christmas pressie.  She wanted kind of a cigar box look.  I had never done box joints before and had a couple days left in the semester, so I said sure. 

Dutch graduate designer Carolien Laro has designed a range of stools with flexible seats created by cutting slits into their solid wood tops. 

Called Springwood, the collection includes a three-seater bench and three stools, one on wheels, one without and another with folded steel legs, all with pliable wooden seats.  Each seat requires 480 CNC-milled cuts.

I love this.  Modern technology and wood together.

Source: dezeen.com

Are these gorgeous or what?

affinecreations:

Figured Cherry and Kiaat tasting plates.

I’m making these as a consignment order for the Olio Tasting Room, in both Old Town Alexandria and Middleburg, Va. My original design included added some Cocobolo inlay work, but as soon as I saw the plates come out the planer, there was no way I could obscure the Figured Cherry. The hard work for these was figuring out how to route the wells and give them a rounded over lip. They are too shallow to rely on bearing for my round over bit. If you are curious, ask me how I pulled this off.

These two photos are after applying Tung Oil. I will let that dry for a few days and then build a topcoat of lacquer and buff to a high gloss.

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Don’t read this if you’re on my holiday gift list and want to be surprised.  If not, read on, because these are super cute!

I made a bunch of house shaped candleholders for holiday gifts this year.  I guess I’m kinda obsessed with house shapes right now. 

I experimented with different stains and paints.

I even made some flat black ones, because, you know.

I’ll have a tutorial up soon!

I had never made a cutting board before, so when my friend Melanie sent me a link to some maple cutting boards, I decided to make one for her.  I like the look, they have a bit more design to them than other ones I have seen.  The ones in the link are made from face grain, I decided to make mine out of edge grain…less warping and easier on your knives, I’m told.  So mine has a different but similar look.  I painted the end and put in a keyhole for hanging on the wall.  

Makes for a nice cheese board as well.

I tested it out on some parsnip, works great!

We got the pictures from the DWC photo shoot.  There are some good shots of the stuff I built. 

Here is the space before:

And after:

Before:

After:

Close up of the work area:

Closer look at the desk:

The shelves:

The smaller chairs:

The larger chairs:

And the clock:

There was a post on The Huffington Post today about the Center.  It was a great project, very fulfilling and I learned so much!

More press here.