Work in Progress

Been a long while since I have written here. Sorry for the long delay, but things have been busy and such. Lets see if I can remember what all has happened since I last wrote.

I built my sawhorses, which is good because they have been holding up my benchtop, and have been serving as its legs. Not an ideal situation by any means, as it is really too low to be ergonomic. The "bench" height is around 25", and I need the bench to be 32" high. Bit of a difference, and believe me, my back feels it.

I worked a lot on my mom's table, which turned into a fiasco. I was trying to use very marginal lumber, and by shear force of will make it work. Well, that is not entirely accurate... The big issue is that I was trying to make these pieces something they were not, namely straight and free of serious flaws. I got to watch my efforts explode in my face, literally. The a piece had internal stresses (caused by a curvy trunk being cut into a straight board) which I did not discover until I was ripping a board in half to fix a bow. My saw hit the place where there were conflicting forces, and then through that place and therein relieving those opposing forces in the appearance of several large and table-top ruining shatterings. I was a bit depressed.

Then I found some better wood from my stack, joined it, and in 1 hour had something better than what had taken me 10 hours before.

At least I learned a lot. I guess. Sigh.

So, now my back is telling me that I need to complete my bench. The big reason I put it off was because it was going to be very time consuming, but it has to happen. I was really hoping to have some piece of furniture done before this point, but it is what it is.

Here is a picture of the mom's table top, the second.



~ matt