these hard times projects
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Sparktrician
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Very nice! How did you attach the legs? [smile]
Jiggy Joiner
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Very nice designs indeed.
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Jim Kirkpatrick said:
Your style ain't so bad either. Just saw your saw/chamfer thread. Both you and [member=34877]goulwen[/member] make some beautiful furniture. The quality of some of these projects just blows my mind. Congrats to you both.
Oh wow, I tried a bunch of them but i always end up with the same thing, which is the nicest and easy to apply thing. I buy it from amazon germany. It some kind of oil that drys fast and protect the wood. For bathroom and water room i use a mat varnish from a french dealer called Tollens, but it’s so long to apply and it gets yellow after a while....mike_aa said:
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Nice work.
Woodworking is a great way for me to shelter in place. Rather than doing high-quality stuff with adults in mind, I've been doing high quality projects for the grandkids. We have a couple of them, 3 and 5, staying with us and I'm trying to get some time with them in the shop at least every other day. They are too young to teach them woodworking in traditional ways, so we've been more creative and ad hoc. So far we've made:
Woodworking is a great way for me to shelter in place. Rather than doing high-quality stuff with adults in mind, I've been doing high quality projects for the grandkids. We have a couple of them, 3 and 5, staying with us and I'm trying to get some time with them in the shop at least every other day. They are too young to teach them woodworking in traditional ways, so we've been more creative and ad hoc. So far we've made:
- A wooden model of an articulating hand (you know, for social distancing). OK, I did most of this one - way too advanced for younger kids. They did help a little.
- Random glue-ups with the leftover pieces of the wooden model to teach gluing and clamping. We concentrated on interesting shapes for everyday things. It was a creative exercise.
- Two Harry Potter style wands, one white ash, one Peruvian walnut. I did the turning, they did the finishing. (Technical specs: 10 5/8" with a unicorn hair core.)
- Two presentation quality boxes out of mahogany, black walnut, and cherry, for the Harry Potter style wands, with Kaisen foam inserts. Again, they did some gluing, sanding, and finishing, and I got some design advice from them.
- Starting with a piece of firewood, created enough 1/4" thick aspen boards to create small box - exercise in where boards come from.
- In other words, I'm adapting to what keeps their interests. What they can't do, I do when they aren't around.
- And then there is basic safety. For example, not wearing shoes gets you immediately kicked out of the shop. Touching a tool without permission gets you kicked out of the shop the second time. Touching a switch gets you kicked out immediately. The kids like the shop, so it doesn't take them long to learn the rules.
- Given that, I did give the 3 year old permission to work the vise and he squished a finger hard enough to say ouch
. Didn't do any damage, but he did learn to listen to what grandpa says about tools - in this case, "It's going to hurt if you squish your finger." Once I said it, he just had to try.
