Matt’s Weekly Shop Update – Sept 13, 2016

Lots of time spent this past week working on my presentations for Woodworking in America.

Woodworking in America: http://woodworkinginamerica.com/

Meet ups
Thursday night meet up:
Wood Talk/WIA Meetup 9/15 @ 5pm at Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. christianmoerlein.com

Saturday night meet up at Moerlein Lager House at http://www.moerleinlagerhouse.com/

Finishes I used on the table
Epifanes: http://amzn.to/2a4Yczl
Epifanes Matte: http://amzn.to/2ahliWJ
CPES: https://star-distributing.com/store/Clear%20Penetrating%20Epoxy%20Sealer.html

Farmhouse table project: https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/product/farmhouse-table-benches/

Arnfest: http://arnfest.com/
Sept 29th-Oct 2nd

Viewer Projects

Crib by Brandon

Cherry crib that’s convertible to a full bed and the mattress is adjustable up and down.  The finish is just shellac, lacquer, and a glaze treatment.  The wife liked the name Anna Rose so I thought I’d give inlay a try, a first for me. The inlayed rose was from a picture of a cake fondant rose (because it happened to be a nice picture).  The inlayed woods are curly maple for the pedals and poplar for the leaves and stem.  Sand shading was used on the inlayed pieces.

Pink Bench by Greg

This is a Jay Bates design. The bench was built from construction grade 2 x 4 s. I used construction screws for fasteners instead of pocket hole screws. I countersunk all the screw holes. Then put wood plugs to fill all the screw holes. This bench was birthday bench for my for my Mom. Since then I build 2nd bench for ourselves.

Sleigh Restoration by Jimmy

I’m 17 years old and recently transferred into a trade school for my junior year in high school to learn more about using power tools safely. when i was about 15 i would buy old hand tools and restore them to working condition and i still do today. Ive also learned a lot by watching your videos on youtube. after about 4 months into junior year i was presented with a project for the town of Norwell MA they had a 100+ year old sleigh they wanted the school to fix. My shop teachers were originally going to scrap the project and throw it away until I came in and they noticed how passionate i was about woodworking so i started in on a 6 month restoration drawing all my own plans. I carved all the runners out of red oak and using mostly hand tools scrapers,spoke shaves, etc. I used all the original metal and help from the auto body shop to paint the metal. I finished the project about a weak before school got out for the summer.

Memento Box by Mark