Making Cheryl's last work table

Yesterday, we went to Woodcraft again and I was able to get my hands on a 1/4" spiral bit. It's so wonderful, I can't believe I used a router without one! My chance to use it came tonight when I assembled Cheryl's last work table. I used to simply to route out the area for the legs to fit into the feet. The spiral bit cuts so smoothly and with less splinters. Other than that, the table went together rather well . As usual, what was dead level in the shop and no wobble gets to Cheryl's room and it's off slightly. I'm thinking the wood floor in Cheryl's room is not as level as it should be. So, Cheryl's room is now complete...for the moment anyway. She is already thinking that I may need to build her a packing station in front of her bookshelves. But that will be a little later and a different design. I'm hoping tomorrow I'll be able to finish up the things I started with my router station and the templates that I started a couple of days ago. I can't wait to use the 1/4 inch bit again on something new. I'm beginning to see the router as a tool that can almost do anything! The true king of the workshop!

Cheryls Shop...finished?

Well I hope so for the moment anyway. I completed the last two tables for her tonight and had to get creative with the last one. It was made for the corner. I think they look OK by themselves, but when you marry them up to each other, the small 1/16th of an inch difference comes out. BAAA! Well at least a couple of them are close. and they are all dead level so really there shouldn't be any complaints. Cheryl for the most part, is happy and I'm actually pretty relieved to be done with them. Now I have to figure out what to do with all that mismatched furniture she had before ( because, of coarse! they are now all in my area) Also I feel pretty confident to take on my own table in the near future. Tomorrow is another Grand Rapids trip with, hopefully, some band saw work to be done! I'll try to capture some pics!

Cheryl's second cutting table.

I just finished another table for Cheryl's shop. I thought this one would take less time, However, there were a couple of challenges that made it take some time. One was it had to match the first one perfectly. Yeah right! I'm impressed that it was as close as it was. There is a bout a 1/4 inch variation . which I blame on the first one because the second one is dead level. Well we May just have to match it up when I make the other two. as for now, this will have to do. I took a few more pics this time to show the steps of making the legs. Pretty straight forward and this time they seemed to turn out a little better. My goal is to finish the remaining two before Christmas. but I don't know..this next week will be busy. Enjoy!

A cutting table for Cheryl

I was quite excited tonight because Cheryl asked me to make her a cutting table for felt and button sorting. This is something Cheryl usually does not do because she is afraid I will mess it up. However, my last few projects must have instilled in her a comfortable level of confidence. Well I thought it would be great practice for me when I eventually make my ultimate woodworking bench that I read and drool over in all the wood working magazines. Anyway, the feet took the longest time, but after I chiseled out the "half mortise" or whatever you want to call them, things went pretty quickly. So fast in fact, that I forgot to take more pics along the way. Cheryl is now so excited that she is ordering me4 to make the next three tomorrow! I don't know about three, but at least one should be doable, and probably faster now that I know what I"m doing. I'll sign off with the cats, breaking in the new furniture. Have a great weekend!