ahock's Blog at LumberJocks.com http://lumberjocks.com/ahock/blog Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:54:56 GMT Osage Orange picture frames #2: Finally! I have two together http://lumberjocks.com/ahock/blog/10055 So It took me a long time, but I finally have two together and finished! Here they are:

I used a double splined miter corner. The splines are out of some extra cherry I had laying around. I glued up the frames with the one spline between my rails & stiles (is there a real term?). Then used my splining jig to do the side splines. Now that I have the process down I can buzz through the other 6 frames I have to make.

Thanks for reading!

]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:54:56 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/ahock/blog/10055 ahock ahock Osage Orange picture frames #1: The wood has arrived http://lumberjocks.com/ahock/blog/8897 This is the first project that I’m working on since I’ve joined LJ’s and thought, “Hey, I’ll journal the whole thing on here and get some input from people…”. So that’s what I’m doing. I wanted to try my hand at Osage Orange, as I’ve seen some cool things done with it before and wanted a challenge, from what I hear it’s very hard and dense. I couldn’t find any locally, so I went to Bell Forest Products website and picked some out there. Well, it has arrived! In the past I’ve been very frustrated with expansion and contraction in wood in my shop, the humidity varies drastically, so I’m going to be storing the wood in the house between working sessions; hopefully that helps. So, here it is stickered. I’m going to let it sit for about a week to acclimate before I get going. I did a few trials to see what style my wife would like the most and it came out to be this one.

So, in about a week, I’ll start squaring and cutting things down to size!

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