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Gateway (VIII)
I was back at the MFA today to see if I might be able to pull the metal shoes off of their concrete bases. The weather was outstanding, if a tad warm.About an hour of shoveling in - call me 'digger' -...
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Gateway (IX)
Ninth post in a series describing the design and construction of a replacement gate for the Japanese garden, Tenshin-en, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. First post can be found here. Previous...
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A Square Deal (9)
Post 9 in a series describing the design and build of a coffee table, end table and maybe more, all in solid bubinga.Feeling confident that the table top slab would remain reasonably docile, I decided...
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Gateway (X)
Back to site yesterday with another fairly long day to move the foundation prep work along. Over the past few days I had put together some plywood forms based on measurements taken at site. The forms...
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Gateway (XI)
Back to site today for a few hours to set up the concrete forms for the other side of the gate. We used a builder's transit to set the forms to within 1/32" of the height of the forms already set in...
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Gateway (XII)
Post 12 in a continuing series on the design and construction of a new gate for the Tenshin garden at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.Driving to Boston takes me 2 hours each way, in the best of...
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A Square Deal (10)
Back to the shop for some furniture work, after the past week's activities revolving around the Boston project.------------- After rough cutting the tenons by way of my portable grooving machine last...
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A Square Deal (11)
A hot and humid day, with thunderstorms in late afternoon. I spent the morning tweaking the drawing and refining the joinery details for the breadboard end connections. I wanted to have the wrinkles...
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A Square Deal (12)
I last left off with the table top slab tenoning work complete:Now it is time to cut out and fit the breadboard ends. These are made from quartersawn bubinga, which have been jointed and planed over a...
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Gateway (XIII)
Post thirteen in a series describing the design and construction of a kabukimon, a type of Japanese gate, for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. If you're new to this blog or this post series, the...
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2014 Northeast Tour (Part 1)
In 2012 my wife and I took a summer trip up to Quebec and returned in a loop coming down through Maine. 2014 finds my wife changing jobs, and to celebrate/take a little break, we decided to spend a...
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2014 Northeast Tour (Part 2)
For part 1, click here.---------From Woodstock we traveled south on Rt. 106, to the county of West Windsor, where a few more covered bridges were to be found. The first one we came across is called...
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Boxy Lady
At long last my parcel from Japan showed up today. By some miracle the box was just narrow enough to go through the freight door, which is about 47" wide for some strange reason:I wheeled the behemoth...
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This doesn't Dovetail
Visiting a house in Connecticut the other day, I came across a coffee table:A standard type of commercially produced furniture, with the drawers being continuous from one side to the other. Nothing...
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Where there's a Wheel, there's a Way
Getting close to delivering another Chinese wheelbarrow to a client in New York, and thought some readers might be interested to see some pictures of the final assembly and clean up of this piece....
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Kanna help you, perhaps? (VI)
Last post in this series was on May 21st, so I must say I've dropped the ball. It ain't over yet though! Welcome back.In that last post from so very long ago I described dealing with issues of the...
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Gateway (XIV)
Post 14 in a series describing the design and construction of a kabukimon for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The previous post can be found here.---------Yesterday was one of those longer days, a...
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Gateway (XV)
A fairly short visit to Boston today to button a few things on the foundation.The first task was to mask off the joins between the granite with painter's blue tape:Where the granite meets the existing...
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Aigner
I have always found shapers a little bit breath taking, if not a bit on the scary side. When wind comes off a spinning cutter and hits you in the face, you tend to respect the potential inherent in...
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Gateway (XVI)
Post 16 in a series describing the design and construction of a kabukimon for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.------Back to the place where the wood is getting dried - Lashway USA - located in...
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