Slow, but steady. Now I have to wait hours between each glue-up of edging to table, due to the small number of clamps we own, but it’s going well. I’ll use pipe and/or bar clamps for the other…
I’m closing in on completing my desk building project…
Finished the ebony dye and varnish of the under-desk cabinets and left desktop varnishing. Still need to finish and add edging, the right desktop, and a connecting piece in the middle.…
Wouldn’t you know, just as soon as I started doing the varnishing on my desk parts, the humidity in Austin went way up. It’s even been spitting rain periodically. All of which slows down the curing time of…
So I decided to dye-stain my desk cabinets ebony, which will still allow the wood grain to show through, but just darken the color to not quite black. One more round…
Another gorgeous August day, and I’m getting pretty good with a circular saw. I cut 2 44.5″ x 60″ desktops out of two 60″x60″ pieces of beautiful Baltic birch (man, that stuff weighs a ton! Thirteen…
The attic room project continues…haven’t made much physical progress on it this past week, but I’ve been doing a lot of research, redesigning other projects, getting ready to build the daybed and attached cabinet, and tweaking my desktop sketches…
