Floating Night Stands

I've promised Kelly a bed for sometime now but it's a large undertaking, so i skipped the frame and went straight to the fun stuff.  

 I'm enjoying this video.

  

  

-Tyler

Jointing the Jointer

I'm generally pretty relaxed, until it comes to machine tolerances.  My jointer fence had a slight dip in it, and flattening it has been on my "things to do" list for about a year.  I called a friend with access to some massive tooling and it made short work of making my fence flat.  To give you an idea of the size of this mill the clamped fence is 36"x6". 

 -Tyler

Oak Hall Table

This is a commissioned white oak hall table I delivered last week. The client and designer had the layered wood concept in mind so I suggested a few tweaks, and I was off.



Here's the bottom detail of the drawer pulls. The drawer is blackened but I left one face natural so the client has the option of flipping it around. I stumbled upon the idea of a reversible drawer and it put a smile on my face.



-Tyler

Walnut Bed in the rough

Here' some pictures of a commissioned walnut bed.



With floating nights stands.



The bed has two large drawers under the mattress, a great addition if you need the space.



I'm looking forward to throwing some finish on it, and seeing it with some drawer fronts.

-Tyler

Radial Saws and Oak

I had a hankering for a large sized radial arm saw, and some wide white oak. Oregon here i come.



A 16" Dewalt GE radial arm saw popped up on my radar, meticulously restored by the previous owner Doug Westlind. If the Yates snowflake isn't an indication, his shop is amazing, stocked with every dream machine i could ever want. I wish i had more time, but road trips of this nature are a series of time accumulating choices. So it was off to the next stop to get some wide Oregon white Oak planks.



The 2000km and 39 hour trip went well, a lot of driving but sometimes when you need something travel is a necessity.



Here's the Dewalt safe and sound at its new home needing a table and a confident operator; it's a very intimidating type of saw. But it'll be nice to have a trusty crosscut saw, my Makita mitre was never used for finish cuts and it's capacity is now dwarfed.

-Tyler