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1329 days ago
I did finally finish up my lowboy for Christmas '05. Just now getting around to posting the pics. I finished the piece with a glaze. It turned out pretty well...
1662 days ago
Here's a couple of pictures for the Grandmas. Maddy, Eric, and Marj look an aweful lot alike. There are also a couple of Maddy at the park across from the house. She has taken to saying "shoes?" which means "put my shoes on and take me outside to play!" She has truly started to hit the bossy terrible two's with a vengence...
1675 days ago
Eric had a game today against the Rockies. He got two hits and made it home once. I coached first base this week (I did the field ump duties last week). I also do the field prep for our home games, but unfortunately there was no chalk today. So we had to rake around the already disappearing lines someone had done earlier in the day before the game. Tonight we're watching Lemony Snicket the movie with Jim Carrey. I have to say I don't really like it that much. His characters is completely over the top. The kids are fine, but the story is lame. I'm typing this in instead. I'm also reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Marj bought me the "five volume trilogy" in one bound book. I've never read the books before, but recognize a lot of the pop culture references I hear frequently from it. I can see where Red Dwarf took its creative spirit from. Next week I'm off to Atlanta for customer visits. I've only been to Florida in that part of the country, so I'm ...
1679 days ago
For the last two years I have been working on a Chippendale lowboy as a gift for my wife. In typical Microsoft fashion, I jumped in way over my head or abilities but have been faulting in my knowledge as I go. The first step was carving the ball and claw feet, which took me about 1.5 days per leg. There is a great book (I'll post the ISDN number some time) that walks you through the process as well as giving good ratios for astetic purposes of the parts of the leg. The carcass was not too bad to get right, mostly involving mortise and tenon joinery with a couple of dove tails for the built-in rails per classic design. Over the last two years since I started, I realize I was missing some base skills, so I did a few other projects too. So this lowboy has hand dove tailed drawers which I'm actually pretty good at these days. Just last week I finished carving the shell on the front drawer (another trip to Woodcraft, yeah!). It turned out pretty good, with only a ...
