I went with the non-traditional Valentine's gift this year and bought Katie these teak stools for the kitchen. She found them on the local online classifieds. Originally the seller wouldn't come down to my price, but as my Father-in-law always suggests, I told her if she reconsidered her price to please call. Katie was pretty disappointed, but the seller contacted me a week later relenting. I bought them without telling Katie, and she was pleasantly surprised a week or two ago when I brought them home. (Katie does our book-keeping, and I didn't think I could explain why there was a withdrawl from the bank, therefore I couldn't wait until today). They're really cool - heavy teak, with iron rails for the back. They'll look even better in our new kitchen... one day.
An update on the benches for our kitchen table - lots of glue-ups this week (done in the dining room, of course).
The turned oak legs that I ordered arrived. They're a reasonably good match to the turned legs of the table, but about 2 inches too tall.
I made a sled to aid in trimming the legs exactly the same each time.
The sled allowed me to clamp a stop block, and clamp the legs down for safer cutting.
See that little wedge under the turning? That kept the leg level during the cut because the turned part is narrower than the square bottom.
All done - 8 legs nicely trimmed to length. The Heineken is for, uh, lubrication.
Cutting mortises on the router table, which is conveniently built into the wing of my table saw. This allows me to attach my router fence to the saw's adjustable fence. The router fence has handy storage for bits, and a vacuum port to clear shavings while working.
It took a few passes to cut those mortises and inch and a quarter deep, but they turned out pretty good.
A couple more glue-ups and I'll be ready to cut tenons in the rails later this week.
1 comment:
Ok...way to complicated for me...great job at figuring all of that out!
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