Colonial Hutch

Don: Very nice tell your brother that I’d give him a passing grade.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Thats a great piece Don, and a wonderful story, in both places you wrote about it

-- Cheers

Quote Shawn: ”Thats a great piece Don, and a wonderful story, in both places you wrote about it”

Sorry Shawn, I don’t get it. Unless I’m going around the twist, this is the only place I’ve written about the hutch.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

That’s a piece of furniture. Thanks for sharing it and the story.

-- Rookster, (http://www.robertkarl.org/woodworkingblog/)

That’s a little steep Don. Sell it back to him for the original $125.00 plus 43 years of interest @ 5% compounded anually equals $1018.70 after all, he is your brother. And on top of that he’s living in a Texas Shack for cryin out loud.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Well, Obi, I guess I was trying to say that we place such a high value on this item that we couldn’t part with it.

And perhaps he will be satisfied with my paying tribute to him by showing it here. After all, he can now look at it any time he wants.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Maybe you’re right… if you gave it back to him cheap, it would be saying it isn’t worth anything. It’s an Antique one-of-a-kind famil heirloom.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

A great piece of furniture, & well designed. I can just see your brother now as he looks at it, & admiring it on his PC. If you are looking brother, congratulations for having a brother like Don. Even if he won’t let loose of it.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Great piece of furniture and a wonderful story. What a treasure. I like the cherry & beeswax finish.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

You mentioned it in your comment on my blog, I’m glad you posted it it’s a great piece

-- Cheers

That I did, Shawn. I thought that you were telling me that I had alrady posted the full story along with pictures elsewhere on this site. When you get to my age you are always on the lookout for tell-tale signs. LOL

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

well glad I could help you discover that, no Don, you arn’t quite yet losing it…also making that pine cabiate I made, gotta say, my table saw is amazing when not cutting hard wood…

-- Cheers

Two of the basic keys to successful cutting is a sharp blade and the correct blade. I get my TS blades sharpened at least once a year. I also take the time to use a good ripping blade when ripping. I reserve my finishing blades for small box work.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Hi Don;
—-yes this is a great wood piece! Good looking Colonial Hutch….

I’m really amazed at the look of the wood after 43 years with cherry stain and one coat of beeswax, nice color. When you talk of side width of panel boards, I’m guessing from the number of floor boards that this works out to around 46 – 53 centimeters? And so if I’m, guessing right, then these are some nice wide boards.

GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

beautiful story and a wonderful piece of furniture. By listening to stories that my daughter tells of her high school students I can’t imagine any of them putting such pride and effort into an assignment. (that is what you referred to as “year 12”, yes??)

Anyway, I have an antique pitcher and basin that is my pride and joy but keeps floating from one spot to another, never finding its home. I have wanted a dry sink (I think this is what it is called) to hold the item from my ancestors. Perhaps I’ll just have to get to work and make one.

Oh, Rick—— !!!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Now we’re gonna have to keep our eye on Debbie. It appears that by “making” something, she holds the coffee cup while “Rick” does the actual work.

And why isn’t Rick in here pimpin his goodies?

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Quote Frank: ”...this works out to around 46 – 53 centimeters? And so if I’m, guessing right, then these are some nice wide boards.”

Frank, the side panels are 410mm = 41cm = 16”

Quote Debbie: ”...is what you referred to as “year 12”, yes??”

Yes, Debbie, grade twelve, last year of high school.

Quote Debbie: ”...a dry sink (I think this is what it is called)”

You’ve got it, Debbie.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Wow! Don your brother piece is very nice, Your brother quite the woodworker. Does it run in the family?

-- Marty Ohio

BP, my brother is a talented guy. He excels at whatever he turns his hands to, but other than this woodworking project, I don’t think he has done any woodworking. He’s currently consumed (and who can blame him) by the new boat he just purchased. For a view of that connect to my other blog link below and brows through the site.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

(the broom, Obi.. the broom.. Debbie holds the broom!! )

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

What a difference a few years makes. Try to buy pine now that doesn’t have a knot every few inches. At least in the USA.

I like the photo of your brother that you are using for you Icon picture now. He is much younger, and more handsome!

laughing,
Mark

-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan

Quote Mark deCou: ”I like the photo of your brother that you are using for you Icon picture now. He is much younger, and more handsome!”

LOL - In his dreams, Mark, in his dreams.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Friends,

I intended to make some comments on my dear brother’s posting, but the librarian says that it’s time to go… I can’t afford a wrist watch you see. So next time Ol’ Black and I get back into Dripping Springs, I’ll offer up some corrections to the technical aspects of the finish on my hutch, and expand some on why my brother won’t return it to me.

In the interim, see the new Project I’ve posted on Don’s earliest project.

-- Dripping Springs, Texas