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Furniture 2
 Coffee
Table
Ash with Minwax Rosewood stain. I normally do not like to
stain wood, but that was the request, so this was an early
experiment with stain. It is a LOT harder than simply wiping a
rag on wood. Getting even coverage is a tough task in my shop.
The stain was following by ten coats of wipe on Poly.
This is the first project I have used wipe on Poly--what
great stuff! No brush marks, no drips and a nice smooth finish!
The plan comes from Woodsmith Custom Woodworking series
published by Oxford books.
 Octagon
Fish Tank Stand
My sister purchased an octagon shaped salt water fish tank
and needed a stand for it. After the sticker shock of the prices
on the commercial stands, she asked me if I could build her one
out of pine AND do it for next to nothing (of course). This
project costs less than $50 and all eth materials were purchased
at Home Depot. If she purchased a manufactured unit: hundreds of
dollars! This is one example of building your own furniture can,
sometimes, be a real $$$ saver.
Since I have never tried to build a piece of furniture in
this shape, I said I would give it a try.
The first challenge was how to handle the weight. I decided
to make a simple fir 2x4 frame. A single rectangle box with a
couple wings...easy. The pine panels simply attach to the sides
of the internal frame.
My second challenge was to get the miters on the octagon top
to match up. This took some SERIOUS trial and error. This
project was built years ago and it was way before my current
shop and Osborne miter gauge. This project is a good reminder
for me that it is possible to build these types of relatively
complex projects without all the fancy tools and a large
shop…but is sure easier to have them!
Pine stand with a poly finish. The front inside left panel is
a door with a spring latch to access storage.
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Pot Plant Stand
Aromatic Cedar with a clear Spar Varathane finish. The design
comes from American Woodworker magazine (June 2002). This
was really a fun project to build, and my Gardner wife loves it!
Tower Bookcase
I needed a place to store the woodworking books, so I built
this simple tower bookcase. The picture to the right details the
shelf. The pins are hidden in a groove and covered with a White
Oak edge (shown with out the edge treatment here). Materials are
birch plywood (stained with a shop mixture to a White Oak with
an oil finish), trimmed in White Oak and finished with Minwax
Tung Oil finish.
Quilt Stand
This was, I believe, the third project I took on. Wood came
from Home Depot (I had not discovered that the Big Box stores
charge about twice as much as the hardwood dealers!)
This is Poplar with a clear Polycrylic topcoat. The third
project I made. The design came from a plan, can’t remember
which one.
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