Weekend project

[Mike N]

Cut several birch poles with the chain saw, bought 4 casters at $1 ea., and had the top piece of birch veneer plywood from a ($30) 6'x4' piece I cut into 4 pieces. One coat of brushed-on tung oil. The backsplash is a nice scrap piece from my sugar maple table project.

[RAM]

Not bad for an amateur Mike! Al seriousness aside, it looks great! Wish I could be that productive over the weekend. Keep on!

Bad Bob

[Mike N]

Just finished this darker top table on casters for a place to display a few duck decoys. I cut about 400-1" birch pegs to glue on all 4 sides of the top. The "F" on the bottom of the wider table is for my buddy whose last name is Fitzsimmons.

[john elder]

Nice, Mike! ..and great therapy!

[RAM]

Beautiful weekend work Mike! What do you do the other five days? Thought you were retired.

Bad Bob

[Mike N]

Here is an end table I made this week with 4 different sides:

[Mike N]

Here is a white birch bark fly-fishing box and a birch table with the veneer top stained an antique barnyard red.

[RAM]

Beautiful work Mike! Did you paint the trout too?

Bad Bob

[Mike N]

Thanks.

The trout on the front of the box was painted by an unknown (to me) local artist who signed her work as "The Fish Lady, 2002." When I got the box (my wife found it) I sanded everything off but the trout and added the birch bark and 4 birch legs and the twig outlines.

This "Fish Lady" artist is the same person who painted the trout that appears in the photo above on the front of the taller serving table with the duck decoys. My sister had purchased that small painting for me about 10 years ago in West Virginia.

[john elder]

Throw away your lawyer's shingle, Mike! ... And no aspirin needed!
You can pay the mortgage fine with your birch furniture! Nice work!

[Mike N]

Installed this 12' 6" long x 2" thick x 18-22" wide pin oak slab bar on the patio today. I used marine varnish from a boat dealer to seal the top. A local welder made me the three leg braces in about 2-3 hours.

It rained when I got done, so I also wanted also to share with you a fine West Virginia rainbow outside our kitchen window.

[Mike N]

I found a nice old drawer at a flea market and built an end table around it.

The top is two different stains sanded, with a painted gold accent trim. I put 1"x6" pine on the other three sides to cover the drawer, and finished them with some birch bark and twigs.

[john elder]

Nice!

[Mike N]

Thanks, John.

But before I could do that project, the "boss" had me turn a pin oak slab I bought at the sawmill into an entry table. A guy in Ohio Amish country welded the base which I painted.






Bottom bracing on large crack.