This is the top of the bottom panel. Most of this will be hidden by the rest of the TV stand itself, and the VCR stuff. Even though the grains, and colors are a bit all-over, it still looks great. I sanded it with my old DeWalt random orbit sander, and took the time to switch through coarse, medium, and fine grits, and it came out smooth as silk, top, and bottom. Having jointed the planks using my router, split fence, and a straight bit, the joint lines themselves are completely invisible.

This student stained the neck of her guitar and sanded most of the stain off so the final color and texture matched the cigar box. The match is almost perfect.

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I still need to stain sand and route the neck.

I really like how this bowl turned out. It is roughly 4" x 6" (100mm x 150mm).

Staining the neck

Self portrait with mock-up

Here's a look at my glue-up method. I'm on to the top board now. I used 3 Irwin pipe clamps to pull the boards together, and 2 2x2s that I planed for smoothness in my Rigid 13" planer, with 4 Bessey Craftsmen bar clamps pressing those into the panels to pull them flush with each other vertically. Wax paper keeps the 'flat bars' clean, and free from getting glued into the panels.

The whole assembly is tipped up here on 4x4s simply so I can get to the underside to wipe away the glue squeeze-out with a wet rag.

I am making this project with my students and here are some of the guitar necks that I milled.

I really like how this bowl turned out. It is roughly 4" x 6" (100mm x 150mm).

frame made from old scrap oak. tile purchased at local art, craft store.

Bird from egg, "Take Flight", a balanced kinetic sculpture that glides around slowly and gracefully with the motion of ambient air in a room.

This was to be my first attempt at edge-joining boards. I originally planned to use dowels, but later gave in, and bought a nice Porter cable 557 biscuit joiner. I love when tasks trick me into buying tools.

Prior to using the clamp/random orbital sanding technique, I had tried to fake having a drum sander at my drill press, seen in the background here. It 'sort of' worked, but the fake fence, made with some scrap wood, and clamps, wasn't the best solution, and not quite as clean as I'd hoped. It was also a rather small drum sander head for making straight lines. I've since bought a larger arbor, and drum sanding tubes, and cut a new sacrificial plate with a new adjustable hole cutter that fits it. In the process, though, I lifted up the sacrificial plate, which then spun around, burning a circular patch in my Woodpeckers drill press table's laminated top :(

Note in this pic that sanding the edges of the boards with my clamp/random orbital sanding method worked great. They sit flush on the table top.

Crafting wooden pieces in a workshop during the day with a focus on skilled hands at work

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Pre-sanding, here's how the bottom of the top panel turned out. You can see the wax paper adhered where my homemade flat-bars were clamped on. This sanded out just fine later with the random-orbit sander, and several grits of paper. I achieved a super-slick finish.

Balancing, "Take Flight", a balanced kinetic sculpture that glides around slowly and gracefully with the motion of ambient air in a room.