Here is a video clip showing how to use a hand plane to even up individual planks of a table top and also to flatten it across it's width.
This is one of the techniques that goes into a hand made table. Working with a sharp plane like this is a lot of fun. It is very satisfying as it hisses through the wood. This will be one of my Trestle Tables but with have two add-on end leaves. I will post more about this table as it comes along.
Happy Spring.
Stay dry,
Tim
Windsor Chairs and Shaker inspired furniture designs, made by hand, in Vermont
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Chairs, Tables, Rain
I have not posted in a while as spring is here and things are very busy with work, kid's soccer, outside clean up and projects after a long winter and the joy of warmer weather even if it has been very, very, very, wet.
I am working on a couple of dining tables at the moment as well as getting a set of eight New Waltham Side Chairs together.
Getting ready to assemble the legs and braces for a New Waltham Side Chair. Behind me is a cherry table top for a Trestle Table that I am making. |
Hopefully, we will have some more sunshine soon. It has been a very wet spring here. Flooding generally is not an issue in this area but it is getting to be a real problem for some. The weather does seem to be changing with so much snow this winter and now all of the rain.
Time to go grind some chair seats.
Stay dry,
Tim
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