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September Project – Adirondack Chair

sricks — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:19:25 +0000

Boy does time fly -What happened to August? It seems like summer just started. Well, even with all the stuff going on with the sale of our current home and the purchase of a new shop home, it seems I was able to squeak out another monthly project. Of course for the second month in a row, I could not have done it without the help of my oldest son Andrew. He loves being in the shop and loves building things even more. Earlier this month we were on the hunt for new out door furniture. We thought we might find some good deals this late in the season. As my wife and I were struggling to find something in the third store we went to, Andrew says “dad, I would really like to build something big, something people will use”. He says this as we are standing in front of a set of Adirondack Chairs. My wife and I look at each other and instantly we know what to do. So the next day I start the hunt for good plans for Adirondack Chairs. There is a lot out their on the internet but most of them just didn’t feel right. I finally settled on a plan for a 2007 Fine Woodworking article. You can find the information here. The design is pretty good and the drawing is really good. The article itself is missing alot of information, so be prepared to figure some things out for yourself.

This turned out to be Andrew’s project with some help from dad. He got to add another tool to his list of tools he can use, the band saw. At first he was not sure, but then once he saw me using it, he decided to try it. Now he loves it.

We decided to build one chair first to see how it goes and then dive in to build more after we learn the in’s and out’s. That was a good idea, because as I said earlier, the plans were a bit lacking. The end product looks really good and is very comfortable. I am sure that after the move, we will be making a few more of these chairs.

Project Details

Plans from Fine Woodworking
Lumber Ceder – Dimensional Lumber purchased at Home Depot
Cost – @ $90.00 for materials
Hours – 12 including teaching

Steven

Maloof Table Status

sricks — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:16:30 +0000

So, I you see from my post Almost There, But not Done, I did not meet my first months goal. This weekend I will get back on it and should be able to finish the table up pretty quickly. I did get a chance to see the table that inspired it all. Here is a picture of the table I saw years ago at MASW that created the itch to do this project. The version I am doing is a little larger and has a few detail adjustments. While I was at the school, I talked with Marc Adams a little about the project and found out that he made the table as a project for his video series, You can by the DVD that included this project directly from Marc’s website at http://www.marcadams.com. The DVD with the table is Furniture Making Projects Part II. This DVD, like all of Marc’s other DVDs is very informative and well worth the cost. As an addition, this DVD comes with the plans for the table.

With this new found wealth of information I am primed and ready to go. Let’s get this done!

The last 60 millse of day one

Drew — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:08:40 +0000

And we are driving through Kansas and it is so cool there is tones of cars and i saw a train station. I also saw a steam boat, barges and a tug boat. And i felt bad because i saw homeless people living under bridges.

driving through Missouri

Drew — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:05:13 +0000

We entered Missouri and the beginning was
okay but after a hour ore so it got kinda boring because the only thing to look at was construction workers barns and fields.

Begining the trip to texas.

Drew — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:51:51 +0000

thursday morning we left the house.
And drove past the winery it is realy
neat because you can see the grape vinse there must have ben hundreds of them.
Then we drove past a train and it was more than 47 boxcars long.
Next we dove past this house that had tones
of metle junk art it is realy neat they had stuff like pirets and a tinman and kranse.

The Big Trip

sricks — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:38:02 +0000

Well, maybe not so big. But we are off to Texas. This will be our first trip with Simon. Hopefully he will do well. Our Plan is to leave first thing Friday Morning drive for nine hours and stay over night in Emporea Kansas. Then head for Texas on Saturday. Whatch this space for our newest blogger Drew. He will be making post through out our whole trip.

Making the Connection

sricks — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:19:10 +0000

Life Journey blog is now connected to my FaceBook page. This means that hopefully every time I make a post to the blog the FaceBook page will be updated as well. We will give it a try and see how it goes.