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What's Happening In The Shop?

Restocking the online store and making a big mess. More walnut cake stands coming soon.

It was time for some incognito tunes in the shop, courtesy a quick Bluetooth speaker setup.

Subway tile is nice and all, but a bathroom deserves at least a 4-inch crown to really be royalty. This is the sole reason I didn't take the tile all the way up. To leave room for crown, all the way around. Priorities are important.

So far, so good. The bathtub is complete, and none of the children have reported me missing.

Sometimes, you just want to enjoy a warm bubble bath and a book while waiting out the apocalypse, and then realize that you have to actually finish building the bathroom for those dreams to come true...

Doing some tax prep and finishing up a small order. Also, reviving the #shopbread while we wait for grocery supply chains to catch up to current demand. With my normal travel schedule at a standstill, it looks like I will probably have some extra time in shop. Stay safe everyone!

Wondering around San Antonio today, and found a museum to check out, @briscoemuseum .

Progression pictures from dry fit to plugs to oil to wax. All wrapped up and delivery on Tuesday. Hopefully have some in-place pictures next week to explain its future use in a classroom. .

Visited the Coker Tire Museum and Honest Charley's on the way through Chattanooga last week. This is where they still build wooden car wheels and where an impressive display of restored antique autos are displayed.

Curved, profiled, and assembled. About all that's left before finish application is to go ahead and make/install the square plugs. This was modeled after a Greene and Greene serving table circa 1906. The only picture I had to work with was in a @darrell.peart book, but luckily that had a museum-quality shot with a ton of detail, so I marked it up a bit to pull some proportions and went from there.

Working on a small Arts & Crafts style table. Will be oak with some small walnut accents. About to get curvy.

That one turned out pretty nice. I was able to slide several different types of lumber into the build; maple as primary, poplar secondary, birch for the ply, and oak for the drawer slides. The stain on the exterior ties it all together, while the colorful surprise is left for when doors or drawers are opened. On to the next project until installation time for this one.

I know that, as a woodworker, I'm supposed to love all of my bathroom vanity drawers equally and not pick favorites, but... this one is my favorite. If I had company coming over to the house, this is definitely the drawer where I would place the extra toilet paper rolls.

Doors are done, hardware is fitted, and it's time to pull everything completely apart for finishing. The panels are the final color. I wanted to get some stain on them ahead of time so there wouldn't be any light spots showing later, should the floating panels move with the seasons.

Drawer slides and fronts all installed, including faux front where the sink will sit. On to a couple doors to round it out before stain and a clear finish.

Drawer glue-ups are almost done. Went ahead and cut drawer fronts and finished up the wooden drawer slides while glue dried, because one can never have enough clamps...😥

Shop-made drawer slides are roughed out and the drawer bottom grooves are routed. Trimming to fit soon, following a quick sand and shellac of the drawer interiors before glue-up.

With the top refinished and new hardware installed, I can finally claim a good chunk of shop floorspace back.

Drawer box dovetails are cut in, but no thanks to the shop cats.