Jon Lou build a toilet paper holder and book nook

Identical cousins Jon & Lou settle their differences by building a bathroom project together. At least for a little while. Their zany hijinx will fill your heart with laughter and perhaps a tear.



Charles and Ray Eames

2008 marked the 100th birthday of Charles Eames (1907-1978), an American designer. Married in 1941, Charles and his wife, Ray (Ray-Bernice), worked together for forty years to produce many ground breaking furniture designs, some of which are still in production today.

The most revolutionary furniture idea they conceived was that of molded plywood. This seemingly simple concept came about when Charles and Ray experimented with a homemade molding machine into which they fed scrap pieces of plywood that Charles had brought home from his set architect job at MGM. Anyone who has ever sat in comfort on a curved plywood chair probably has the Eames to thank for the chair.


The first molded plywood product they produced was a leg splint. The U.S. Navy order 5000 of them for injured soldiers during World War II.


Perhaps the most recognizable Eames design is their 1956 Lounge Chair and Ottoman which was highly sought by corporate executives and became a classic of mid-century modernism.









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To commemorate Charles birthday the United States Postal Service issue a series of postage stamps featuring Eames furniture designs.

Homemade band saw

Im sure many of you are familiar with Alex Harris, The Teen Woodworker. His latest project is simply astounding. Yep, he built his own band saw! Check out Matthias Wandels plans at Woodgears.ca.










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Today was a thrilling day in the wood shop. You wouldnt believe the incredible time I had building stuff out of wood!

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Gophers and ants

What did I do? Well, I mowed the jungle that I call a lawn. Discovered several new gopher mounds. Rather than doing something with those mounds of dirt, I decided to just mow over them.

Naturally, the lawn mower objects to this practice and makes horrendous sounds while throwing clouds of dirt throughout the atmosphere. I looked at the biggest pile, or what remained of it, and noticed it was moving...or pulsating.

About 33 billion ants had determined that a gopher mound was a perfect place to raise a family and were now frantically darting every which way carrying little white bundles of baby ants. In a strange way, I really felt guilty. Ants are cool. Just as long as they stay outside. Once they march into my house and discover the cats food, I have no regrets using the most non-environmentally-friendly ant poison. I believe doing so builds up immunity.

We pay for dirt! Dirt! Its everywhere!

Wait, Im getting off track. But it still involves dirt, just not the gopher or ant variety. Dirt that people actually have to purchase and move from place to place. Why on earth we buy earth is a puzzle.

Strawberries!
We have four raised flower beds that I built ten years ago. They have held all sorts of plants, but this Fall my wife decided we need onions in two of them. Its a good winter plant to grow, and I really shouldnt complain because I do most of the cooking around this dump and I and use lots of onions. And as if I havent mentioned it before, I hate spending money. So growing your own food is awesome.

But the dirt levels in those planters was down about two feet from the top. Yep...the mysterious disappearing dirt. I understand that it can compact, but that doesnt account for this volume of lost dirt. It just simply vanished. I think dirt evaporates and rains back into places that sell it.

Trip to Colored Gravel.

"Colored Gravel". Thats the name of a place here in Novato that sells all sorts or rocks, dirt, and rock-and-dirt-related products. I had them dump two loads of topsoil into my truck: one cubic yard. That pretty much fills the bed of a full-size truck. Its daunting to look at and know that youll have to unload it.

Yeah, it was way more than we needed to fill the raised beds. We filled them to their brims and had to find places to put the remainder. I avoided the vegetable garden option. I have no doubt Ill need to repeat this process next spring for my tomatoes. Just where does the dirt go?!

Moving dirt sucks.

Look! Its...dirt!
There is no way around it. I have nothing but admiration for guys that have to shovel stuff for a living. Seriously. Its hard work and they deserve better pay than whatever they get. Two hours of that nearly kills me.

Got the planters filled. Marveled at (outdoor) ants. Spent no time in the shop. I almost completed my Halloween video though. Im still trying to figure out an ending. Video editing is hard, but its total weenie work compared to moving crap around.


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I actually have a tip here. Not woodworking, though.

Ursula von Rydingsvard

I was struck by Ursula von Rydingsvard a while ago when I saw her on the Art 21 video series. Her forms are raw and organic and yet fluid and complex. She starts most of her works starts from 4” by 4” cedar boards like the one in the image below. It is as if she takes the cut lumber and turns it back into its natural form. And it’s inspiring to see an older woman tackle such massive projects. Unlike some artist like George Nakashima who may start from raw wood and try to maintain or respect its form she seems to reverse the process.


Art 21 is a wonderful series by pbs, well worth getting from netflix. You can find more information on Ursula and images of her work at their site:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/vonrydingsvard/index.html

Warren Platner



Warren Platner uses very simply designs and lines in his creations. His furniture is simple and can be liked by many because they go with any style and any taste. There are some details that he incorporates to give it just a little extra show, but overall he keeps his looks clean and never over the top.
He likes to combine wood works with metals, thick wires, and very this glass to make a bold presence. His style is very big, which allows one to use one of his products for many different things, but in all it makes the piece stand out with its size as well as its simplicity, but also the bolder accents.

Nicks jewelry box

Nick Cavanaugh sent over some pictures of his jewelry box based on one of my earliest videos. He used birch, walnut and maple for his. Cutting those coved sides on a table saw is a real trick. Basically, you feed the wood at an angle across the blade. Its kind of scary, but not too bad if you plan the cut carefully and get yourself in the zone.

The real fun part is sanding those coves. Anyway, nice work Nick. Beautiful finish too. I think a jewelry box is the ultimate woodworking gift for any woman. 




But wait! Do you realize it is November 15th? Holy cow, Christmas is just a little over a month away! Anyone started any gift projects yet? Any good ideas?  I started building a little decorative swing this weekend. Should have a video posted by Saturday or Sunday. What else, what else. I may try some turned ornaments, but thats in the air. 

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon is a British sculptor who works with wood and metals primarily, but also uses plastics, fiberglass, and ceramics. His work has a similar style to that of Martin Puryear. All of the images I am posting are from his website.

He works with the bent lamination technique on a typically large scale. Here is a shot that is not from his site, but just shows the process of bending the wood. The wood is bent along the grain. Typically, several rip-cut strips are laid one atop the other and clamped into a jig that forces the wood into a particular shape.

This piece on the left is made out of galvanized steel and concrete, but the style and joinery of materials is treated similarly to wood joinery. You can see the finger or dovetail-like joints around the larger opening. Although the materials differ, he seems to conform them into a similar expression.


He says his work is not about technique. It is more about the ability to form materials, seemingly contrary to their nature. It is a primal act of manipulating the materials around us. Technique is of course inherent in the extent of his manipulation, but is not what he would say is the essence of it.

But look at this crazy thing.

It is hard to look at this thing and not be overwhelmed with the question, "How the hell did he do that?" I would imagine that even to the expert who knows how he made it, the detail and complexity seems to be the emphasis of this piece. To me, it seems to be all about technique. I go back and forth on how necessary titles are. His titles vary from very sterile to sort of emotional, while the aesthetic pretty much remains constant.

It is hard to separate him from Martin Puryear. Not only in the similar methods/style of working, but they are both craftsmen and artists. There work represents them as both. Some work is craft, some work is art. They seem to strattle the two realms rather successfully. Here is another really crazy awesome piece that had some fabrication shots on the website. These are detail shots of the craziness. You can see the braces he uses to keep it together. Now for the really cool part. Check out these elaborate set ups. This guys is really prolific too. If you check out his website, it goes back to the 1980s. He has so much work.

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon is known for using "construction and building fabrication techniques" in his art. Overall, he seems just as concerned with the materials he uses as he is with the meaning of his work. Born in Wales, in 1949, Deacon was a well-known, promising young sculptor in the 1970s and is now one of the most famous British sculptors of his generation.

Deacon uses a wide variety of materials, from wood to polycarbonate and leather to ceramics, but for the sake of this class, I will consider one of his wood sculptures.

Quick, 2009. Chêne et acier. 180 × 622 × 231 cm. Strasbourg, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain. Photo : Ken Adlard

Steel joints brace this piece entitled "Quick," allowing the wood to move in ways that might not happen naturally. "Organic …. and engineered," this piece makes an indirect connection between manufactured objects and biological forms because its a little bit of both at several levels (movement, materials, techniques, etc.). More specifically, Deacon explores how material and construction techniques interact to delve into dualities of meaning at a subjective level. He says a lot about the modern world through the relationships at play in his work.

You can see his techniques and materials very clearly so that his process becomes part of the meaning of his pieces:
His sculptures never seek to hide technical operations behind them, including assemblage, riveting, torsion, stretching, folding or strapping…
His process starts with drawing but it always moves into industry fabrication. In the piece above, the wood was "steam(ed), then clamped and strapped onto metal and assembled using a system of metal fixtures."

Deacons sculptures relates to furniture-making in that they interact with the space around them and they usually interact with a lot of tension:
...beholders clearly sense themselves in the force field between the sculpture and the surrounding space, and walking around the object search for views inside or through the object and the inner spaces enclosed by the sculpture as immaterial shapes, and for an immanent principle of order.
More dualities that are cited about Deacon’s sculptures include "the struggle between chaos and order [and the struggle] between formlessness and rigorous structure."

I think its amazing how much can be said once techniques are mastered and then all mashed up with a variety of materials. It is inspiring to learn about someone who constantly explores his options in order to get exactly what he wants.

Interview with plane maker Steve Knight Fine Woodworking

Steve Knight makes, or used to make, really nice wooden hand planes. Now he makes them as kits; super high quality. Here is an interview from Fine Woodworking and Steve where he talks about that transition from finished planes to kits...

Interview with plane maker Steve Knight - Fine Woodworking

LN 7 Jointer Plane

Its funny how things all turn out and help you make a decision. In the past week I have both sold my boat... and ... received a lovely letter (and cheque) from the Tax man.  Finally, the icing on the cake,... I was sent a discount email for 10% off any item from Axminster tools. 

Now, despite all the above, ... This decision did not come lightly I can assure you! I am sure the Quangsheng planes would have probably served my purpose adequately, in fact from the reviews I know they would. 
They sound like really good planes at amazingly cheap prices. But... I am thinking of this as a one time quality purchase and I would always be wondering or lusting after the Lie Nielsen tools. No political or moral views came into it - I simply could afford what I wanted in the first place, regardless of the quality and value for money of the competition.





Its lovely! ... If I get the same feeling from using this new no#7 plane as I get from my other LN tools, its money well spent. I am also enquiring about a LN no#3 smoother in iron (not bronze), but I would like it with an O1 blade and the high angle 55 degree frog. I have decided against the LN no#5 Jack plane for the moment as my old Stanley no#6 has been (begrudgingly) earning its keep with a newly cambered iron.

As the new no#7 jointer / try plane and my crusty rough and ready no#6 fore plane both have 2 3/8" irons I decided to also spring for the DMT Diasharp 8"x3" stones in both Fine and XX Fine (8000g).  I will still keep and use my 6"x2" DMT stones for chisels etc as they are a lot lighter and more portable for other work or jobs I may do away from the house.


And lastly, its time I started doing a lot more dovetail work and treated myself to the Veritas 1:6 dovetail marker.


I will be using it in a little project soon....






Kitchen Changes

Howdy!  Have you ever made a decorating decision that you thought you liked, but, the more you looked at it, the less you liked it until you just had to change it so you could sleep at night?
That happens to me sometimes and because Im known to change things often, thats exactly what I did.  Im referring to the big ol EXPRESS sign in my kitchen.  I love it, I really do, but NOT in our kitchen.  I just felt like it didnt belong there, so, that kinda started a couple of small changes that Im really happy with.
I think this word definitely belongs in our kitchen. :)

My hubby is always picking letters and numbers for me so I looked to see if I had the letters to spell out Family.  I didnt.  I was short the L and Y, so I decided to make them myself with wood scraps.

I simply printed out an L and Y from my Word program on the computer, traced them onto the wood and then cut them using a jig saw.

For the L, I used walnut, so I coated it in the dark raw tung oil that I coat my bread boards with.  For the Y, I used maple and I didnt want it light, so I spray painted it with oil rubbed bronze.  I also spray painted the A and M the same color.  The F and I are iron so I didnt do anything to those.

My goal was to have different shades of earthy browns.  I really like this so much better than the Express sign and it fits us perfectly because the kitchen is the heart of our home.
Another change I made was to bring the vintage looking concession menu that I made for my sweet hubby for Fathers Day into the kitchen.  It just seems more appropriate in the kitchen and Im so happy I did.  I think its the perfect space for it.

And Id really like to fill those two large jars to the side of it with vintage cardboard popcorn containers.  I filled the smaller jar with gray and white paper straws which we love.
Just small changes that made my day.....
Im currently working on my laundry room.  Which is the room you see through the french door in the photo above.  And looks like you can see laundry all over the floor in the photo above that.  :)

I bought the cutest thing that Im going to feature on my blog Friday for the new twice monthly feature here at Our Vintage Home Love.  I love it when I find something that makes me so happy that it inspires me to give some attention to a room that I otherwise wouldnt.

And I would like to take a moment and say that the comments you have all left on my bread board giveaway have truly touched my heart.  I dont like to get all sappy, but, sometimes you just gotta..........some of your comments had me in tears, not because they were sad but because some of you shared little memories about your dads and family that made me so happy.  I feel so blessed that something that is so special to me, has become so for you, as well.  Thank you for loving my bread boards.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.  :)

Dining Room Table Tutorial

Hey there!  Ive received a number of emails lately asking how I built my dining room table or how I attached the top to the dining room table I already had.  So I decided to do a tutorial for all those who asked.  I didnt take any pictures when I did it so I took pictures of the under side of the table, which many of you have asked for, and will do my best to explain each step.


As I mentioned in that post, I used pine 2 x 8s.  After I distressed the boards, process discussed here, I laid them together evenly and attached wood brackets to keep them all together.


As mentioned, I already had a dining room table, I just didnt like the top, so I removed it and was left with the base.  Now, the previous table was also built by me using the table legs that my dad turned himself before he died.  I created the apron (sides) with pine 1 x 5s and attached them to the legs with "L" brackets, as pointed out with arrows.  To make them a little more stable, I also drilled long screws at an angle into the legs from the apron.  As you can see, it is really important to PRE-DRILL your holes as my wood split.


After the base was complete, I placed it over the under side of the top.  To secure it to the top, I cut scrap pieces of oak, which is a little stronger, cut them at 45 degree angles and placed them flush against the apron.


I attached it with screws to the table top. 


Next, I pre-drilled holes into the end of the brace into the apron, where the arrow is pointing.  Then drilled screws into the holes on both ends.  Makes sure your screws are short enough to not go through to the other side of the apron, but long enough to go through the brace and into the apron.  I think the screws I used were 1 1/2 inches.  To also add stability, I drilled holes and inserted screws from the legs, at an angle into the table top, shown with the bottom arrow in the photo below.


Repeat for each side and thats it.  I painted the legs and apron white, which worked out great because if you have any gaps between the table and apron, you can fill them in with caulk.  It covers a multitude of sins.  :)


Flip it over carefully and you are done.  I know there is probably a better way to do this but this is what worked for me, some of it I learned from my dad with another table that he built.  He had the right wood joinery tools to do this, I dont, so this is the process that I use.

I hope this is helpful to all those asking me how I did it.  It really isnt hard, just a little time consuming and really the only tools you need are a miter saw and cordless drill.

Have a Happy Monday!
Diana

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