New Ramblings
Hi all.
I finally got approval for one of my new projects. The entry bench going to Manhattan. It’d going to be walnut (mostly veneer) with a lot of storage underneath in the form of both cubby units and a drawer in the middle. I can’t put a picture of it here. I drew it in Sketchup, but I can’t seem to save it as anything other than a Sketchup file or a PDF file, neither of which will reproduce here. I’ll keep working on it. Anyway, I ordered my veneer yesterday. I got about 120 square feet. This should be too much, but it gives me some wiggle room. If I get a panel wrong (which I have done) then I can re-do it and I know the veneer will match. If I need to get more later, it may be a different log and it won’t match at all. It’s a bit of insurance and walnut still is not too expensive, so it doesn’t hurt too bad.
I won’t be getting under way until Thursday. I’m part of the Guild of Vermont Furnituremakers, (check us out. There are some really talented people here) and we are having our quarterly meeting Wednesday at my shop. Know what that means? CLEANING!!! Yeah, it needed it. I have been in John’s shop for much of the last few weeks so I have been neglecting my own place. I am really looking forward to this bench project if only to work in my own place again.
This last week has been a school vacation, (I did mention that I drive school bus, didn’t I?) so I was able to get in some serious miles on my bike. I got in about 300 miles. It’s been a good week. That puts me over 1000 road miles so far this year and it’s only April. The weather has been spectacular. Sunny and warm every day and it’s about time. Seems like it was a looooooong winter, wasn’t it?
OK, I’m going to go now and get back to my meeting preparations. Still a lot to do. Next time I will have pictures and updates on the bench. I’ll try to get a picture of the drawing too.
Thanks for reading.