Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Kitchen Table Project

Building a kitchen table turned out to be a little more work than i thought but it's almost done! Actually, it ended up costing a little more than i thought it would. Here are some pictures. The first is the assembled table but still unfinished wood. The table top is made up of two planks of aspen glued together(and screwed together from the bottom). The apron is also aspen. The legs are 30" four-by-fours. In picture two you can see the first coat of stain has just gone on. I chose antique walnut for this table. I took the third photo right after applying the second coat of stain. The color is becoming nice and deep. Very natural looking!




































Tomorrow i hope to sand it a little bit and put on a coat of polyurethane. I hope to do at least two coats of the poly. So this puppy should be done by the end of the week!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Tra la la la la!


Here's a couple more characters from the sketchbook.

The old feller on the left is sort of a rip off of a character from a Fleischer cartoon.

The guy on the right is an urban rail conductor.