Another Project Completed

[Tucker]

Made a book case for a friend.

Walnut w/ hardwax oil finish.
 

[JDBBQ]

Beautiful... nice work!

[Cheesehead_Griller]

Beautiful! 

[MacKenzie]

Lucky friend, I love walnut. It is beautiful and just wait for it mellow, it will only be more beautiful.  👍👍

[jonj]

Beautiful work. I especially like the attention to the grain patterns throughout the piece. Do I see a little craftsman mark above the top shelf in the upper right?

[Syzygies]

 

 

Beautiful!

Back in the shallow end of the swimming pool, I'm also fond of guerrilla woodworking. At our daughter's previous house in Salem, Oregon, working outside in her carport next to pouring rain with minimal tools, watching the wood warp in real time as I worked. I rejected dado cut joints in favor of explicit shelf supports I could clamp the shelves onto, taking out cupping as I screwed them in. Back went on last. Serviceable, and they made the move to her new house in Arizona.

Edited September 13, 2024 by Syzygies

[MacKenzie]

I bet she will be thrilled with those beauties. 

[Tyrus]

Nice piece Tucker, your friend has a treasure. You too Syzygies, constantly measuring for distance always pays off in the final product,,good job.

[Tucker]

On 9/13/2024 at 9:57 AM, jonj said:

Beautiful work. I especially like the attention to the grain patterns throughout the piece. Do I see a little craftsman mark above the top shelf in the upper right?

Yes, a gift from another friend on my 60th.

[Tucker]

After having completed the bookcase, I was asked to create a small 'china' cabinet to fit a specific space and need.

It is 49" tall.

Made of ash, except the drawer bottoms. Crafted the wine glass rack as well.

Stained it walnut, left the interior natural intentionally.

 

[Tyrus]

Very nice Tucker and a good size [Goldilocks] too. Excuse the critique but just under the glasses you have some empty space, will you stand or lay down bottles there?  Recently my Dewalt miter perished as well as my Rigid planer and they don't service them any more because they don't make parts. So I replaced them with the 10 Bosch with the articulating arm and the Find buy tools helical cutterhead planer. The planer with that head leaves a finish 220 sandpaper would leave. Hope your enjoying the shop you made, well obviously you are. Cheers

[Tucker]

Tyrus - yes, the upper cabinet is meant for the wine glasses and large tea/water glasses to stand below them, forgot to mention that detail, thanks for asking.

I am looking at replacing the straight blades in my dewalt planer versus buy new, no decision yet.

[DennisLinkletter]

My sister asked for a teak wine rack, and I love the results.
It's one of my favorite projects in 35 years of building furniture professionally.

 

These are my hand-hewn teak floors.  https://handhewnfloors.com

 

 

 

 

 

[Syzygies]

1 hour ago, DennisLinkletter said:

My sister asked for a teak wine rack, and I love the results.
It's one of my favorite projects in 35 years of building furniture professionally.

Wow, I love your design. I'm very happy with my pragmatic design, using metal grids. And I usually cringe at the loss of bottle density in most "artistic" designs. Yours is great looking, celebrates wood, and doesn't give up bottle density.

With the right jig and a great router table (I have Jessem's best table) can one knock out your vertical elements? I'd cut V's so the boards mated with the eighth turn bigger sticks. Or do I have this wrong?

[Tyrus]

5 hours ago, Tucker said:

I am looking at replacing the straight blades in my dewalt planer versus buy new, no decision yet

The DeWalt requres 3 blades I belive and like mine were in the Rigid having two were dual sided. The helical heads have 4 rows of 10 blades of either tungsten or cardide in each. You simply loosen the square blade and turn 90 degrees. The matierial lends itself to a long wear and if you experience a small chip you simply replace that singular blade.  Due to the configuration of how the blades are laid out on a curved placement line of 4 rows it eliminates some stress straight blades would have and also the finish is noticeably better. Find Buy Tools makes a replacement head for the DeWalt, many people have done so as I've seen on line and the video instruction is available on line also.                
           In addition to Dennis's and Syzygies wine racks I remember making one too approx 35 years ago holding 120 bottles, the plans were from a craftbook with simpler models. However that's not the point, the point is I could never fill it....it seemed to disappear in volume every time I walked by. I gave it away and went back to standing a few behind the bar. Great job there boys, it always a good feeling of accomplishment, nobody can take it away.