We decided we should have some side tables and a coffee table to match the Morris chair from 2015, since the chair I’ve moved workshops and house 😉 It’s taken a while to get to this stage, not having a great deal of spare time to get into the workshop but after much whittling of large oak boards, the coffee table is now finished.
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I had some pieces of cherry wood that needed to be used for something, so I had a play 😉
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I’ve had a piece of Oak burr that I’d wanted to do something different with for a while, every time I picked it up nothing suggested itself, then I decided it would make a nice lid for a small box. As our Silver Wedding anniversary was coming up I made it into a gift for my much better half 😉 the burr had quite a few gaps in the grain so these were filled with powered brass mixed with resin. The sides are made from yew with walnut pegged joints.
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Far too many years ago we met Peter Lloyd at a woodworking show and bought his book (link), one of the projects in it has appealed to me for some time but I never had the opportunity to attempt it. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I was thinking of making a gift for a friend and the writing slope from the book sprang to mind, the design changed a bit from the one in the book but that’s just how it goes sometimes. The majority of the…
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Another memory box, this time out of Ash and Cherry, with a touch of Walnut (okay, Ash sides, Cherry lid, and Walnut wedges). *Title stolen from Red Dwarf 😉
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