A lot has happened in the last month, though you wouldn't know it from my lack of posts. This post will be a bit of a brain dump, just to get the blogging area of my head aired out a bit.
For much of the past month, I was working on preparations for the newest Guild Build over at
The Wood Whisperer Guild. It's a Greene & Greene inspired Adirondack chair, and Marc and I held a lot of design sessions to get the plans finished. With these Guild Builds, I started simply helping out with the SketchUp work but it has evolved over time to really be a collaborative design effort between the two of us. I will finally be building one of these projects, and brought home a few cypress boards the other day to begin construction. This one will be fun, so stay tuned.
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| Greene & Greene inspired Adirondack Chair |
I also started work on a walnut desk for my wife. It will be a modular design, and the top is already completed. I bought a metric butt load of walnut recently and this is the first of many walnut projects to come.
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| Walnut Desk - Top is completed |
There have also been some upgrades to the shop, as always. After using my "Swiss cheese" workbench for a few months, I have decided to enhance my work-holding by building a Moxon-Schwarz saw vise. The design
was featured in Popular Woodworking Magazine last year, but I made a few modifications. The biggest change I made was to use metal screws instead of shop-made wooden threaded screws. I found a great cheap source for some 1" diameter, 4 threads-per-inch metal screws and matching hex nuts. You'll probably be seeing more about this later, but here is a quick teaser shot.
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| Moxon-Schwarz Saw Vise |
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| Metal Vise Screws? Crazy! |
Summer is fully here in Georgia, and it is getting hot. In the coming months I'll be working on the Adirondack and the Walnut Desk, with a couple detours into other fun little projects.
Thanks for checking in! As always, questions and comments are very welcome.
