| Blog series by Greg Wurst | updated 467 days ago | 3 parts | 730 reads | 23 comments total |
Part 1: One Board - One Project
Several years ago at a wood carving show up in Dayton my wife bought a large piece of walnut measuring 11 3/8” x 72”. It’s been sitting in the basement ever since waiting for a project to utilize it. While I’m waiting for a day-off to finish my garden bench, I finally found a use for that board. We picked-up a large mirror at Ikea for $8 measuring 47 1/4” x 15 3/4”. So, I designed a hall mirror with that board in mind: The entire mirror f...
Part 2: Did I say Walnut? Apparently not...
So, here’s that piece of “walnut” my wife bought at a woodcarvers show years ago. I get it out into the light and it is clearly just red oak. Melissa swears she was told it was walnut, so who knows what happened. I think she only paid $20 for it, so no big deal I guess. I was looking forward to working with walnut for the first time, though. Here’s what happens when you don’t buy that tenoning jig you were going to buy. Clamp the test piece to a couple 2&...
Part 3: And the hits keep-on coming...
Well, I’ve finished the mirror but not without my usual array of screw-ups. Let’s get started, shall we? I only really have one more detail piece to cut, and that is the arch. I go ahead and print a scale model of the arch in Sketchup and draw it on the board. I run it through the bandsaw and clean-up the arch with the drum sander. Since I need two 3/8” thick arches, I figure I’ll cut the piece in twain with the bandsaw using the currently attached 1/4” ...
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