The pieces of wood being clamped in the previous blog were part of 24 pieces being glued into a single four by four foot (122 cm2) piece. In the picture, note the two dark spots in piece #20; those are nail holes. The wood I’m using is ripped out of some 150-year-old floor joists from an old demolished warehouse in Stockton. A friend of ours has a sawmill that recycles old wood and makes new lumber out of it. We did some remodeling in the house a few years back, and these old joists were left over. I cut them into 2" by 1/2" pieces and stuck them together with glue and “biscuits” using a tool called a plate joiner.The plan, if all goes well, is to produce a round dining table. I’ll have more as the project goes forth…
3 comments:
Do you always have tools like clamps just lying around in case you want to build a table? Or were they on top of the old GM in the barn?
Many many many years ago when we had just moved to California, we were going for a ride (a quaint custom, common in the thirties) and your mother said STOP! She had spotted olives on the trees right beside the road! Being Mom, she hopped out, picked an olive and tried it. She got her revenge on olives by learning how to cure them in the stationary tub on the back porch.
Doesn’t everyone have all the tools they need just lying around?
You guys back in the thirties were so brave—imagine just “going for a ride” without either cell phones for emergency calls or GPS so you don’t get lost. No seat belts, no airbags. Gutsy!
I’ll betcha you even paid cash every time you filled the tank with 10¢ gasoline. Either that or traded for eggs, milk or olives.
I remember being told about my Dad and his sister riding in the trunk of that old car too. Well, I never!
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