One project down another almost given up on.

As you can see from this first picture this was a good weekend to be indoors, if it was not snowing there was a strong wind with which to contend.

This weekend saw the end of the bedroom tables project and the beginning of another... the spice rack for the camper.


All in all the tables turned our well. All of the wood came from tree cut here in 2005 (beetle kill).





The attempt to match the two pieces for each top turned out OK, but would have been better if a single piece had been resawed.





Marlys did the finishing over the weekend and it has 3 layers; the first was GF Original Seal-a-Cell, followed by 2 coats of GF Arm-R-Seal Urethane Topcoat. She steel wooled between all coats. 2 coats of lacquer were also added to the tops only.

While Marlys was doing the finishing, I got started on the spice rack to replace the one in the truck camper. The new one should allow for more spice and incorporate a paper towel holder.

Golden Oak is used through out the camper and in looking through the wood in the shop there was only Oak cabinet grade plywood. This was not going to work.

In digging around a bunch of cherry draw fronts removed from the bathroom cabinets during the build were collecting dust in the rafters (trusses really). These would become the next victims of the wood butcher.

It took be a while to re-mill the drawer fronts into 1/2" cherry stock, then I made wrong cut - repair, wrong cut-repair, until I stopped inflicting damage to the boards and built some OSB shelves for finishing stuff. I will start up on the spice rack again this weekend.

Hopefully the wood will be fully healed by then.