Benches and tables(etc)

Over the next little while I'll be making a few tables and benches, I'll post images of them here.

That could continue endlessly, but I'll start a new post (link) for woodwork soon, and do some drawing and painting

 

The Staircase tabletop  after sanding and planing

 

wood textures brought up with Linseed oil

 

a detail from this coffee table top

 

ts base

 

A staircase table centred around a piece of red cedar, almost ready to sand, which will reveal all the little wood fragments buried in red fake wood in the grooves that held the stairs - U doubt I can get every piece perfectly flat, because some pieces are soft, like the cedar, and some hard, like ironbark, or resitent to sanding like kauri, the two strips along the sides are each an oregon 5x2 sandwiched between a strips of kauri and meranti

 

Made's legs off to the right as he gave me a hand filling the gaps with raspberry red goo red sawdust and glue

 

The same stuff aeound a knob(broomstick end) in a hole in the coffeetable I'm making

 

It's pretty much ready to sand and then finish with linseed oil

 

Glueing bits and pieces in an old cedar staircase

 

A gluepot of red fake wood(sawdust and PVA) just before I filled all the gaps on the eyeball cofeetable

 

kitchen shelves

 

A half finished coffee table

 

The garden potting bench for the Woolloomooloo Insider finished with linseed oil. There's a bunch of images below of it under construction.

 

Sanded

 

The potting table is a bit like a cake with all the ribbons of glue and sawdust, before a final sand.

 

Sabrina's table in place at her place

 

An idea of the finished potting table with the lower decks attahed

 

2 shelves(and Shirley the impact driver beast)

 

Frame with a coat of linseed oil and the first few slats

 

The frame for the Woolloomooloo Insider's inner city potting table. The legs are yellow Aus hardwoods, gum trees of one sort or another, and rest 'meranti' and ironbark or similar. The decks will made from kauri and 'island pine' slats, and a few pieces of meranti

 

table legs

 

Sabrina's bench after sand and oil

 

Sawdust and glue to fill the gaps and holes - fake wood!

 

Slats for a potting bench

 

A couple of ideas of how its top deck will look

 

The multigrain top of Sabrina's bench(pine, oregon, Australian red cedar, oregon) ready for glue and sawdust grout, a final sand and some linseed oil to finish

 

tables and dust mask

 

Sabrina's table a couple of steps from completion, braced by a piece of an old cedar staircase

 

Timber for a potting table for the Woolloomooloo insider (etc)

 

Timber in piles, salvaged by Shamus- if we dont use it it will eventually rot away, but the paint is beckoning , the weather is warming up so I can go out and paint streetscapes

 

The start of the top of a bench for Sabrina, made of radiata pine, oregon and Australian red cedar

 

The underside

 

A finished pizza table

 

A couple of finished pizza shaped table tops for a pizza shop. These ones are coated in 2 thick coats of polyurethane

 

An oregon topped table for Shamus' friend Kate, also polyurethaned

 

One more table for the pizza shop, sanded and grouted with fake wood(sawdust and glue), ready for varnishing

 

A kitchen bench/table before the grout and polyurethane with the cute little amp I just shouted myself on ebay, and am about to switch on for the first time. Exciting but a bit scary, I've had a Gibson copy I've hardly played sitting around with no amp ever since I found it, when it was unwanted and badly out of tune. (Update - fun, its a lovely guitar)

A few tabletops made from Kauri floorboards and cedar stairs, as well as a garden stake etc, screwed onto plywood circles then sanded and grouted and mounted on these old cast iron bases. They will be finished with a few coats of polyurethane(ack! though useful at times) before the shameless Shamus of Shambolic ervices