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Thirty five years of taking a pile of raw wood.. designing a box and either taking away in appropriate areas.. or adding to it to attain something of use. The early Queen Anne design of yester-year is "gone with the wind" and sits in a house beside Atlanta Country Club with my "ex". I was not that fond of Queen Anne personally anyway. Beautiful to look at but much too formal for a country boy at heart. The same can be said of some women! :>)
So... in the 21st year in the 21st century of her reign, Miss Lisa said, "let there be chairs".. and there were chairs! The excuse bin was running on empty, no timely natural disasters or family circumstances that would block or delay. Justification for many years accumulation of heavy iron was expected to be delivered.
The lone solace is that as I, the reigning monarch has a fondness for casual living and I could keep it simple on a first attempt (an hopefully last attempt). After a trip to the library and my old grade-school, a design lept out from behind a burning bush and was noted on pad from memory. A table design to fit our life-style was drawn up also with fond memories of aunts and uncles at dinner on the farm and simplicity of life in those days.
Chairs...........
Indonesian rubber tree (para-wood) recovered from several pallets recovered from part time work that were sold to me for $2 each. Cost total $10
Table............
White oak shorts left over and a generous $1 a board foot sale of culled early wood white oak that were destined for a fire-place. With a few design tricks the cull can be made both stable and attractive. I have a penchant of taking what others consider waste and making something useful. I have done it often for charitalbe cause over the years where you find appreciation for your effort.
After-thoughts......
I would taper the legs on all four sides from 4 1/4" at top to 2 1/2" at bottom instead of 4 1/4" to 3" tapered on two sides. And widen the stretchers to 6" instead of their current 4" with an arch in the center for leg and knee clearance. I am not fond of bread-board and have taken working with open end grain to a higher level from years of mistakes.
It's done.... the stock for the new bed got moved from the rack to the shop yesterday. The moisture content was around 9% when checked yesterday. With 87* degrees in Atlanta yesterday it should reach a perfect 9% to 10% by the up-coming week-end. Back to the jointer and planer on Saturday to tackle a new challenge.
Drop by for break-fast anytime on and eat on yester-days challenge and we can discuss the one that awaits tomorrow. But if ya do, a few words of advice, learn the local terms and don't be too formal at the table. Even though a "guest" if ya hestitate to get aggressive at getting your share.. ya just might go away hungry.......ha.. ha... ha.. ha.. ha...
PASS those GRITS, son! :>)
So... in the 21st year in the 21st century of her reign, Miss Lisa said, "let there be chairs".. and there were chairs! The excuse bin was running on empty, no timely natural disasters or family circumstances that would block or delay. Justification for many years accumulation of heavy iron was expected to be delivered.
The lone solace is that as I, the reigning monarch has a fondness for casual living and I could keep it simple on a first attempt (an hopefully last attempt). After a trip to the library and my old grade-school, a design lept out from behind a burning bush and was noted on pad from memory. A table design to fit our life-style was drawn up also with fond memories of aunts and uncles at dinner on the farm and simplicity of life in those days.
Chairs...........
Indonesian rubber tree (para-wood) recovered from several pallets recovered from part time work that were sold to me for $2 each. Cost total $10
Table............
White oak shorts left over and a generous $1 a board foot sale of culled early wood white oak that were destined for a fire-place. With a few design tricks the cull can be made both stable and attractive. I have a penchant of taking what others consider waste and making something useful. I have done it often for charitalbe cause over the years where you find appreciation for your effort.
After-thoughts......
I would taper the legs on all four sides from 4 1/4" at top to 2 1/2" at bottom instead of 4 1/4" to 3" tapered on two sides. And widen the stretchers to 6" instead of their current 4" with an arch in the center for leg and knee clearance. I am not fond of bread-board and have taken working with open end grain to a higher level from years of mistakes.
It's done.... the stock for the new bed got moved from the rack to the shop yesterday. The moisture content was around 9% when checked yesterday. With 87* degrees in Atlanta yesterday it should reach a perfect 9% to 10% by the up-coming week-end. Back to the jointer and planer on Saturday to tackle a new challenge.
Drop by for break-fast anytime on and eat on yester-days challenge and we can discuss the one that awaits tomorrow. But if ya do, a few words of advice, learn the local terms and don't be too formal at the table. Even though a "guest" if ya hestitate to get aggressive at getting your share.. ya just might go away hungry.......ha.. ha... ha.. ha.. ha...
PASS those GRITS, son! :>)
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thinking what you would have made if this was not scrap wood.
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