Posts Tagged "woodworking"

End Table: Custom Staining, Finishing, and an Unexpected Trip to Delilah’s

In class today, we applied a finish for all our pieces. Note the extra bit of stain that Liz brought with, in case we needed to do touch-ups.

I have to say: Liz was the star student tonight, as several other folks wandered over to ask about her process and what she did. Lots of interest and questions, and Liz was just in her element – talking about everything she’s learned about staining. Quite cool to watch.

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Liz’s Early Birthday Celebration

I ended up needing to miss a woodworking class last week (and needed to go in on the weekend, to do a makeup class). Liz decided she needed the night off as well, and decided that we’d both miss… and go in together, today. Our makeup work: sanding. We were encouraged to bring headphones. I wasn’t sure where we’d be…

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End Table: Fitting

Today, we fitted all our pieces together, so that we could measure and fit the bottom shelf and tabletop. We’re actually ahead of schedule today, and ended up having a more laid back pace.

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End Table: Glue Up

During one of the slower moments, near the end – I took some photos. We haven’t been in the classroom itself much, as the last classes have had us out on the main floor with our various pieces.

Here though, we ended class by gluing up our tops and lower shelves.

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Scenes from Woodworking Class

Our next project (which I probably won’t end up finishing in time): a two piece plant stand.

Tonight, we got a walkthrough of the pieces we needed… and we set about measuring, marking, and cutting.

The students in the class are all over the place, in terms of the projects they’re currently working on. Some are pretty far ahead, some are far behind. But we all more or less paused, to work on getting the materials prepped for this project.

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Positivity

I’m happy to say that my cuts this time around were better. I was definitely a lot more cautious, and much slower and more deliberate with my actions.

Is it weird to say that I was stressed out the entire time? I was pretty stressed out the entier time.

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