It was brought to my attention that we needed a small stand to go beside one of our chairs. I found this candle stand design in an older woodworking magazine, and decided to make it. It was also one of the episodes from The New Yankee Workshop. I make mine a little different and I used Birdseye Maple. I finished it with bees wax furniture polish.
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| My newest piece. |
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| The Birdseye really stands out. |
There is always a need to maximize a space and in one of my wife's studios she needed a table that would fit over top a group of organizing carts. It needed to be 36 inches high, 82 inches long and she only needed it to be 19 inches wide. To keep it from sagging if there was too much weight put on top or if someone just leaned on it to look out the window I put a 1½ inch high support rabbited in the front and a 2 inch one on the back, this provided the support required.
The other table I made was a sofa table with floating top, which doesn't need to be by a sofa. The design was altered a bit so the top would fit snug against the wall, therefor the legs needed to be 1½ narrower on all edges to offset the depth of our base boards. I used pine boards, applied walnut gel stain with MINWAX polish. It turned out a bit better than I thought. It's nice when that happens. Here is a look at this months work.
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| The studio table. |
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| Another look at the sofa table. |
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| The sofa table. |
I finished a new filing/storage cabinet for the office. I needed a couple of more drawers for the things I had in the old desk hutch. I can store my printer paper and other paraphernalia. It has full extension bottom drawers for the files and standard draw slides for the others. I cut in the ends so I can pull the drawers out. Here is what it looks like.
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| Drawers nicely spaces. |
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| A good balance. |
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| How it looked before. |
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| Now with the new cabinet. |
It's finished and in place. the poly coating looks great with the pine, everything went well. I did have to as a little piece of wood under the front left leg to square it up as the house isn't quite square being 120 years old. Now to build the filling cabinet and get the office tidied up. Here is how it looks.
This past couple of weeks I have been getting lumber dressed to make a new desk, all out of pine. It is an open style desk with one drawer and a place for the old computer tower, which I still use once in a while. The top is a breadboard style, 1 inch think, it turned out great. I have a cut out in the back of the top for wires and a platform for the monitor. I will be putting a plastic holder under the back side to hold the loose wires with a bit of foam to hold them in place. The legs and supports for the drawer and tower are held in place by dovetails. I just slide them in and out for easy assembly. A low edge on the back so I don't accidently pushing anything off. Once I get it finished with clear poly the pine will be nice and light for the office. Shortly I'll be making a new filling cabinet with drawers for odds and ends, as well a for paper for the printer. Here is the desk prior to the finish.
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| This is the new desk. |
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| Just another angel. |
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| You can see the dovetails to hold the legs in place. |
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| Easily disassembled to move where needed. |
It's taken a while but it's done, a new basement door. I used some of the lumber left over from the new bed project and I used some of the boards from the old bed frame. It turned out great, such a transformation to the space. Here is a look at how it went, after I made the door, frame and trim in the shop.
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| Old door, lookin in from the mudroom. |
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| Looking at from the kitchen sink. |
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| No door look. |
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| Not a bad opening. |
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| The door is in. |
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| It looks better just like this. |
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| Nicely trimmed out. |
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| It looks great. |
It's done and in place, and it even feel good, we'll see if we get a good nights sleep if it's good or not. I applied two coats of white pickle stain to the main parts and painted the support boards and the slats white. I also rubbed on a polish to help protect it a bit. It's a much needed improvement over the one I built 24 years ago in an old shed with hand tools and some power tools. I guess it was about time. Here is a before and after look, I still need to make a new end table so more work for me in the shop.
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| What we had, a very solid bed frame. |
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| What we have now, also very solid and much brigher. |
