Furniture and Woodworking

Another Side Table

This table is a Charles Limbert design. The challenging part for me was the clamping and gluing, as the shelf is floating, held in place by the four legs. This allows dimensional changes as the temperture and humidity change.

Yet Another Side Table

The work of Charles Limbert inspired me to try and duplicate some of his work, and here is another example. I wish I was better at furniture design, because while fun, duplicating someone else's work is not the same thing and designing and making your own original furniture. Hopefully, some day.

Coffee Table

This table I actually did design, although proportionally, I think I should have made it a bit longer. It does, however, fit in our living room quite nicely.

Coat Racks

Pat made the ceramic tiles around which these wall-mounted coatracks were designed. Some construction details follow.

Dining Room Table (Summer 2022)

I've been wanting to build a dining room table for some time, and for more years than I can remember I have scrolled through Gooogle Images looking for inspiration and ideas. A project of this scope requires substantial quantities of wood and a commitment; it never seemed to be the right time to tackle this particular project. But this spring I decided that this was the right time, so I called my friend Bill. He has one of those "portable" sawmills (that probable weighs over a ton) and quite a lot of already cut wood stacked at the back of his property under tarps.

I started with some sketches of some web images and began to look at what Bill had in the way of previously cut timber. I settled on Red Oak.

Like all my projects, I make adjustments along the way for many different reasons (cut it 3 times and it's still too short) so I changed the legs to give them a little more curve, so 3" at the top insead of 3-1/2". I have to sketch to visualize how things go together or look.

Dining Room Table Continued... (Fall 2022)

After many hours of internet searching I found the finish I would like to use on the table. I have a lot of respect and get a lot of ideas from the YouTube videos by Cam at Blacktail Studio. While Cam specializs in wood slab tables, he meticulously demonstrates techniques for many aspects of woodworking. I especially like the fact that he shows when he screws something up and how it happened.

Anyway, I was introduced to Rubio Monocoat on the Blacktail videos and decided that the advantanges of this finish was what I was looking for, especially the fact that repairs to damages to the finish are easy to repair without sanding and refinishing the entire tabletop. I used it on the table base pictured left. And plan to use it on the tabletop.

I chose black walnut for the top. I originally thought I would use quartersawn white oak, which is my go-to wood for most projects. While I love the look of QSWO I decided to try something more dramatic. I haven't made anything out of walnut since I was in college, so I thought this would be an adventure.

I bought about 60 bf of 6/4 black walnut from Williard Brothers, in Trenton, NJ. They have a huge collection of many species of wood and a good mill shop. My jointer isn't up to par so they joined the edges to make it easier for me to glue up. I used biscuits to help align the pieces. The image left is the underside of the top after gluing. There were a few places that I wanted to piece in, and the underside was good place to practice.

Music Stand Fall 2022