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This project is based on the article by Christopher Schwarz in the Winter 2008 edition of Woodworking Magazine.
I used red oak (instead of white oak), stained it with Medium Walnut Danish Oil and coated with 3 coats of Minwax satin polyurethane. The project is 26” tall.
This is not a very complicated project, but the joinery (especially the tusks) needs to be spot-on, especially the tusks and their mortises in the tenons on the ends of the cross stretcher. The tusks and the mortises that receive them are cut at a 4-degree taper. I think I spent as much time on the tusks and their mortises as I did on the rest of the project! The top rails and aprons have mitered tenons.
-- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -- Vincent T. Lombardi
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a1Jim
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posted 73 days ago
Hey Vince
Nice plant stand, it looks great
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huff
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posted 73 days ago
Nice attention to details. Very well done.
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Napaman
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posted 73 days ago
very nice…
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3fingerpat
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posted 73 days ago
I remember that article well, I really enjoyed it, your plant stand came out great, good job.
-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"
stefang
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posted 73 days ago
Very nice plant stand Vince. The details are time consuming, but you got a fine result so I’m sure it was time well spent.
-- Mike, American in Norway
missionworks
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posted 72 days ago
Good work. Is that a tile in the bottom?
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TheDane
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posted 72 days ago
missionworks—Sure is … right off the shelf at Menards.
The Stickley original this was patterned after used a much smaller tile (I believe 10” x 10”), but the author of the article wanted to use standard BBS tiles so he re-sized some of the dimensions to make it fit.
-- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -- Vincent T. Lombardi