Project Information
While Mom was away at a retreat this weekend, the kids and I got busy in the shop and built a couple items for their outdoor kitchen. The sink hooks up to a garden hose, and we put in old grill grates for the oven racks. The knobs turn, and the clock works, but you have to reset it after every sixty seconds. Haha. As you can see, we had a blast making it. Right now, there is a dutch oven spider and sand pie cooking that should be done by this afternoon if anyone is hungry. Cedar should far outlast the nasty pressure treated material that some may use for a similar build. The cedar feet were cut from logs that were used as foundation support under a 150 year old cattle barn. You can't tell, but they lived a life below wet ground!
It was a great project, testing how few tools we could use in a well-equipped shop. I'm always trying to watch my material use and my labor to become a more efficient woodworker. I only planed the surface boards (tops and door) and didn't worry about the varying thickness that the old frick sawmill provided us. I originally built the 4×8 workbench as a tracksaw table and for outfeed support for the tablesaw on material that's over 12' in length…but it seems like great height and size for the kids to work on a project with me. The kids were great in helping me determine features, size, and placement. Favorite moment of the build was when I asked my two year old son to hand me my tape on the other side of the workbench and he knew exactly what I was talking about, went over, picked it up, and handed it to me!
It was a great project, testing how few tools we could use in a well-equipped shop. I'm always trying to watch my material use and my labor to become a more efficient woodworker. I only planed the surface boards (tops and door) and didn't worry about the varying thickness that the old frick sawmill provided us. I originally built the 4×8 workbench as a tracksaw table and for outfeed support for the tablesaw on material that's over 12' in length…but it seems like great height and size for the kids to work on a project with me. The kids were great in helping me determine features, size, and placement. Favorite moment of the build was when I asked my two year old son to hand me my tape on the other side of the workbench and he knew exactly what I was talking about, went over, picked it up, and handed it to me!