Dendrobium time lapse

Sounds like some thriller novel doesn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRysKMfZWZ8&feature=youtu.be

Night photos are a little funky because I deleted the frames where the neighbor's port light interfered.

More pictures of the French Oak Kitchen Roubo

Better pictures of the French Oak Kitchen Roubo after replacing the broken memory card in my camera.

Notice the leg vice is asymmetric in order to fit the drawer underneath the benchtop

Glad that I glued up the dovetailed drawer right away, the french oak which sat in my shop for almost 1 year, moved quite a bit after resawing (particularly the shelves)

Notice how the leg veneers hide the zambus casters while allowing them to rotate on the less visible sides

Everything is drawbored mortise and tenon and the leg vice screw thread is built right into the leg

A dendrobium and coelogyne

Some orchid pictures after some really cold days, and a spike in my electric bill

Coelogyne specimen - regular bloomer.  Yes, that's gorilla glue holding the pot together.

A dendrobium kingianum that forgot to bloom in the fall (I forgot to withhold water)

French Oak Kitchen Roubo

Got a new camera, that and some memory card issues caused me to lose some pictures.  A real bummer.  I'm going to have to retake them and post them again.

The point of the Kitchen Roubo is to give Sarah a lower, solid work surface when working on dough.  What better workstation and platform than a roubo?  Got some pretty expensive French oak from Moxon Hardwoods that were rejects from the wine barrel making business.  Turns out some of the stuff and heavy figure.  However, most of it was quite case hardened (improperly dried), making it really difficult to work with.  The stuff that was good however, was a dream to work with.   About 28" high, 20" deep and 4' wide.  Nice 4" thick legs, but could only manage about 1 7/8" thick top.

Basically after breaking down the lumber and picking and choosing the best boards for the top

Lots of jointing and keeping track of parts

Here are all the legs and stretchers with joinery cut.  Note the legs have a notch for the casters, and the veneer on the legs attempts to hide as much as they can.  Used zambus casters that were quite expensive - Jury still out on whether they were worth $100 paid.

Laminated top set aside ready mortices

Then I switched over to the new camera and lost a lot of photos....  The highly figured top with crazy ray fleck.

No so great picture, was testing the memory card because it appeared to have some issues, these were supposed to be test shots.  Lost the keepers...

Don't know what happened to the WB.  But the hand turned screw and hand shaped garter.  Putting thread on the screw was a nightmare, despite the expensive Beall jig.  Don't think french oak is a good wood for the female thread.

Hopefully, I'll have some better pictures coming.  Camera is in the greenhouse right now doing some time lapse on some orchids.  They seem to only want to bloom and open when the camera isn't looking.

Picture frame time 2014

I don't remember how long this took, but boy do picture frames take a long time to build.  Built a miter cutting jig for the table saw and a split jig just to do these things.

Here are some pictures

Ready for glue up

First some glue blocks

Edge cleanup

Then lots of finishing, in the living room of course