Well it’s been another busy week but I wanted to share a few pics around the shop.
Installing the folding bed hardware.
As mentioned in the last post, the dining room has become the assembly area and my trestle table a make shift workbench.
The shop is full of hardwood- cherry, maple, cedar and poplar.
Back down stairs on the regular workbench I’m finally shaping some beautiful cherry and hand planing lots of curly maple. The maple is for the table top and will be laminated strips. To edge plane the incredible figure I had to use my bevel up jointing plane with a 53 degree bevel on the iron and my low angle smoothing plane also with the 53 degree iron creating an effective pitch of 65. When using a hand plane with a pitch this high I have to take very light passes and it’s giving me quite a workout.
The figure in the maple reminds me of the ocean.
It’s a slow process but the table top will be full of this incredible wood and the extra work will be worth it. When I look at this wood I can’t help but think of the ocean and even fresh fish fillets-strange isn’t it? Anyhow, I’d better get back at it- lots of fish to fry!
Shaping the cherry with a spokeshave is one job I could do for days- what a pleasure it is!
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If there is a single ‘advertisement’ for a handtool-only approach to woodworking it is the photos of shops where it occurs. So warm; so inviting.
You guys sure have better wood in Ontario. That figured maple is amazing!
Cheers — Larry
It’s nice to see the work coming along and knowing that you’re doing it by hand is inspiring. The maple is beautiful and the warmth of the cherry is a nice accent.
Had never thought about figured maple as fish, but I can totally see why you think of it that way.
Tom
Great to watch the progress of this project and that maple WOW nice job of plaining that! I have a thing about the free standing sharpening bench to share with you and some pic’s… could you e-mail me and I’ll forward them to you. thanks Tom. ,,,,H
This is nice to see; the ‘plywood project’ in full development!
Indeed some very nice maple, reminds me of sable tigers (some very impressive animals). Did you get tear out on lower pitches since the smoother is quite high?
So how far along the ‘project timeline’ are you now? And also, do you have some ideas on the finish (or does your client have some special wishes)?
Thanks for the ‘basement action pics’.