UPDATE!
(May 12, 2020)
Due to the COVID-19 (Corona Virus) Pandemic and the need for social distancing, PWC will be having VIRTUAL meetings for the foreseeable future.
MAY WOODWORKER OF THE MONTH
MICHAEL OSHRY
If I were to suggest my table has a “centerpiece” it would have to be the public library card-catalog units I repurposed. These drawers had been sitting in my workshop for some time before I realized just how fun it would be to retrofit the units to work within the sewing table. After all, I knew Gail needed small, but long drawers for storage—knitting needles and the like. It seemed to work perfectly. Considered a separate project, I began to remove the “fronts" to fashion new ones out of the African Black Limba hardwood taking care to match opposing grains and attention given to space clearances. I kept and used all the “thumb-pull” hardware too.
Perhaps the best lessons or awareness learned were:
- Be patient when allowing each finishing coat to penetrate and settle. If it requires several days, so be it.
- When I miss-cut a piece, such as one of the trip pieces around the openings below where the baskets go, “re-cut again from fresh stock” rather than to try to jimmy-rig the piece into place, sacrificing quality and just “settling,” unnecessarily.
- Since this was a piece of furniture for my wife, I began consulting with her along the way on just about everything, so that in the end, there “were no surprises.”
- When I was getting tired, or feeling achy, I mustered up the determination to just “stop.” The project took on a completely different feeling the next time I began to put on my apron to get back to work.
- With this project I really learned what it’s like to “take one’s time,” and to allow the “low” of the project be what it will be. There were days I would stand in front of the unfinished table for what seemed like thirty minutes. It would become clear “today is not going to be a woodworking day.” So I would do something else, tidy-up, put some things away, maybe do some cross-cuts on the table-saw in anticipation of what was coming next.
~Michael Oshry
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