Tag: Cherry wood
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My mom wanted an old wobbly end table redone. Although it wasn’t inteded to be a telphone table, she decided that’s what it is going to be after she saw it completed. I didn’t take an original picture, but I’ll try to add it later. Here is the top of it anyway. It looks like…
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A friend of my Mother-In-Law has a vintage Singer sewing machine table that she was interested in restoring. I think it is a “Model 27” that dates back to 1911. You can find more fascinating info on Wikipedia. My guess is you or your relatives have one of these somewhere, probably in a back room…
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Kristy’s colleague was interested in a Cherry wood desk similar to the one she has: https://eveninggrain.com/2019/09/25/cherry-desk-part-2/. Cherry can turn into a beautiful caramel color and it is really great to work with. It is also at a great price per board foot right now! I squared the boards and knocked off the rough edges. I…
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Reduce your down time and elevate your laptop with a home made laptop stand.
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I have been waiting to post the final part of this project because there wasn’t much to post about and I have been nearly finished for a week or so. I glued and clamped the bottom shelf and put everything except for the top frame together to see how it will look. I found that…
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The glass came in for the top frame. I ordered it online, so it came packaged with a lot of Styrofoam. I left it like that for a couple of days while I worked on the rest of the table. I grabbed some Baltic birch from Woodcraft and clamped up the drawer. I fit it…
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My Father’s best friend passed on a while back. He was an enigmatic man who was brimming with creativity and craftsmanship: a musician, a carpenter, an artist, a father, a counselor. Through his art and my small time with him as an adult, I leaned a lot from him more than he could know. Needless…
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Kristy wanted to give her mother a new squirrel feeder for her birthday: I made one about 3 years ago and the squirrels have chewed it up. To be clear, the squirrel feeder is more a shelf for peanuts. I had some end cuts of cherry that would work great and make a good looking…
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I put on a coat of Shellac now that the boards are joined and sanded. This is a wax free shellac. It really brings out the natural wood color and play well with polyurethane. Here is the final project with 2 gloss coats of Miniwax polyurethane. Kristy is happy with it. I’ll try to get…
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Kristy has been wanting a bigger computer desk for her office for some time, so she bought a set of steel legs online. We picked up some 3/4″ cherry boards that would make a good surface. One side was planed already, so I just needed to get the mill lines out of the other side.…