Mr Draper's Bar Cart

 

Hmm..

This is what I came up with; dry fit of the Don Draper drinks cart. Still needs some shaping. Definitely a mockup/prototype, couple things I need to tweak.

Further Exploring

I figured Don Draper's (Mad Men) drinks cart would make a fun project. Curves, sculpted joinery etc. Bit like making a chair.

Turns out it was designed by an Italian designer in the early 50's, Cesare Lacca. He made a few different bar carts, all cool. I pieced together a full scale drawing from a pretty crappy internet photo. Started making patterns. we'll see where this prototype goes.

Spoon Carving

I shadowed a spoon carving course at the school recently. Highly addictive stuff. Prepping for class:

Paper Birch, still green, fresh off the bandsaw:

My carving efforts:

Shop storage

Made a little dovetailed hanging drawer to store card scrapers etc.

The bench room Bessy's were housed in clamp cabinets, made from some Cherry I harvested with Dan many years ago.

Longer K body's sneaked in next to the dust collector.

I mocked up a machine cut drawer joint for students who don't want to cut dovetails. The Half Blind Dado Rabbet, from the Rogowski Joinery book.

Arrow Coffee Table

Working Round

Wedges about to go in.

Cutting the angle on the bottom of the legs. Level the table first, then mark & cut.

Teaching and Turning

I've been enjoying teaching at Urban Woodworker this year - https://urbanwoodworker.com/

Exploring some turning on the school lathe.

Clamp Carnage Reduction Strategy and Further Shop Refinements

The annual year end shop clean up spilled over into the new year. There was unfinished business. Without a clamp rack, F clamps had been falling all over the place for far too long. An exercise in madness. What I needed was another Krenovian sawhorse. A big Krenovian sawhorse.

Then there was the case of storing all the drilling bits and pieces that were scattered around the shop.  

Then there was the case of fastener storage. The cardboard box method had failed miserably. Xmas holiday was spent cleaning up this epic, horrible mess. Picked up a couple small parts cabinets from crappy tire, seems to be doing the trick nicely, so far.

Door Covers

I decided to make some door covers for these four interior doors. I just couldn't spend another winter with the crap stained pine. If you do use pine, don't stain it, if you do stain it, try to do a half decent job. Before...

After...

A few pictures from the build. The 4/4 White Ash is delivered & unwrapped. 

Each plank was split in half. The re-saw produced 1/4" planks/veneers.

Shooting edge joints.

The new Mirka 6" is busted out after the glue ups

The Trimmings

Finally got round to trimming the shop windows. Western Maple; miter'd corners and L tenons.

Crafted Vancouver | Crafted Interiors

Rebel

Arrows

Spearhead

Easy Riders

Safari

Regulators

Amazing pieces by Nicholas Purcell, Jay Miron and Brent Comber

All set up & ready for the bar to open.