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Salling Miniature

tmk — Mon, 05 May 2014 18:49:34 +0000

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Just do it – practicing and creating – another coffee table

tmk — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:25:12 +0000

After I've started doing "real" designs I've been feeling that everything should be done "by blueprint and schedule". That wasn't the point when I started and doing my projects shouldn't feel like an extra job. So right now I've gone back to just playing. A couple of weeks ago I just decided to "just do it" - use whatever leftovers I had from the chair and the footstool and build a coffee table that I promised one of my childhood friends. I consider it a "practice and have fun project" where I can try out new ideas. The legs are done in "my usual" style with the dovetails but today I've started doing the table top where I'm trying a new idea. Its made of little a lot of small pieces glued together with the endgrain as main surface. I guess it will be pretty hard to plane. I think its cherry wood and its actually legs from a couple broken and unused chars we didn't use any more. I thinks its fun how many of the pieces come with a story of what the wood was previously used for. - and tomorrow I'm expecting to pick up some new tools that I purchased in the UK: two new japanese saws and a small handplane - Christmas comes (too) often and at a price...

A workbench in our kitchen

tmk — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:01:41 +0000

While the little workbench on a shelf was a big improvement it was far from problem free. When chiselling wood I would slowly pull down the shelf, and the stability and size was a constant problem. So inspired by videos on Youtube I started constructing my own workbench. It was done during last years summer vacation in July. Our apartment is 56 sqr. meters - so fitting a workshop into the kitchen is an achievement in itself. It is done using cheap glued up beechwood and can be disassembled. Initially constructed as a table that the small workbench could be mounted and stored on - but I ended up purchasing a real vice on eBay. Today it has become my almost daily retreat where I create, think, relax - and like now write a post on my blog. When I was a kid I always wanted a small "safe room" where all the things I needed was collected, so I didn't need to go out in the "dangerous" world. The kitchen woodshop has become that - even though I don't fear the world (that much) anymore. TODO: Add original images