June 2009 Blog Posts
Curly wood is truly a beautiful sight to behold. The chatoyance is amazing and the curlier the wood the more pronounced the effect will be. The property of the wood that gives it such an amazing appearance is that the grain of the wood is not straight and smooth but is instead highly convoluted. When a board composed of curly grain is cut into a board, the flat side of the board reveals a cross-section of all those waves. What Is Figured Wood? Instead of looking at the face of a figured wood, look instead at...
After finishing the sanding of the three hearts on the 5th anniversary present I intend to give to my wife, I was ready to layout the hearts on a mounting board and frame them. Didn't catch my earlier posts on this anniversary present? Click on the 5th anniversary tag to the right to see all the posts in this series. I laid out the hearts in a pattern that I thought was pleasing (representing myself, my wife, and our daughter) on the corner of my router table and "framed" it using a block plane and a measuring tape....
Well, my wife has been reluctant to let me work in the workshop these last few weeks, with the weather being beautiful on the weekends and my 23-month-old daughter itching to play outside with her daddy :) But I finally had to tell her that if she wanted an anniversary present this year she would have to let me spend a few hours in the shop! This is only the second or third time I've had the time to work on my 5th anniversary gift, and if you missed it you can start at the beginning of the adventure.The...