Recent content by rieferman

For anyone looking to read way too many details about my recent build, please see attached. And here's the final product

Hey guys! It's been so long since I was on here last, and I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a year of health for us... lost a ton of weight, built a ton of strength, got my sore back feeling good etc. Currently working on a set of Morris Chairs (and matching stools) for our own use...

Thanks! Woodworking (and similar) is one of those things that's increasingly fun with practice. I tell my wife (in my best super hero voice) that "I can build anythinnnnnnnnng!!!!!!" and I gesture profusely towards whatever recent creation has come into existence. lol PT is great so far...

Hey Burger! Great to hear from you, and thanks for stopping in. Back's improving a lot with the help of the physical therapy and rest, and hopefully I can avoid future instances by strengthening etc. ---- Gate is (basically) done! I still have to touch up a few things and lighting will be...

Thanks Mike! Chiro today and PT setup on a Tues/Thurs schedule for a bunch of weeks. More importantly, I'm going to start taking back at work a bit.... I've been regularly working 10-12 hour days for about the past year, often times on weekends and holidays too... and that's just not healthy...

So weird.... It's literally one specific iphone pic that won't load, but all others (using same process and same file size) are fine. Shrug. In this pic you can see all edge work is done, gate is trimmed to final width, and the modular gate decoration system in the center of the gate has been...

My back is so damn sore still but I was able to gingerly work to get the trellis and gate nearly complete now. I made the top and bottom rails thicker and installed in a tongue/groove fashion over the main panel. They will be pinned like a breadboard end with cedar dowels. Still a bit of...

On Monday (when I wrote the post above) my kids (15 year old daughter, 17 year old son) were super helpful towards a productive day in the shop. My boy was working the festool domino a bunch, and my daughter was glueing floating tenons for me. By Tuesday, my strength was really coming back and...

Well, I spoke too soon about surviving the work tornado.... I was supposed to be on vacation last week but ended up needing to work about 1/2 day each day... continued stress and fatigue and too many hours sitting at a computer.... and then my lower back seized up, badly. So, instead of...

I survived the year-end "work tornado" (aka, extremely hectic & busy time) and am now into my holiday time off for the next 2 weeks. I've been burning the candle at both ends for about a full year now and really can use the time to reset. With that, I asked two customers to delay their...

All finished and installed! And, in-action already!

Working around busy work and holiday responsibilities, my family has continued to support my "me time" in the shop. I no longer need to coach the kids or drive them about, and our home renovations are complete... so I get to spend hours in the shop on a weekly (not daily) basis now. While I...

The cubbies are going to be trimmed with thin pieces of walnut as seen in the dry fit pics above. But, I thought square trim was too... err... square. So I wanted to bevel the top edge to mellow it out a bit. I cut a notch in a scrap board, and put some thin runners on either side. The...

The upper hutch has been a really fun build. Because the bench had a top with walnut breadboard ends, I wanted to do the same theme above.... which amount to a whole lotta breadboard panel building. With woodworking, I find it very important to keep parts square for as long as possible...

Thanks guys!