I had a friend of mine once refer to himself as the best square-cut carpenter in the business. As long as it was right angles and the occasional 45 degree, he could build a house and he built plenty during his time. He also canes chairs and restores old trunks as well so he may have been understating his talents a wee bit but I understood where he was coming from.
I, on the other hand, have always been a no-talent carpenter that has managed to scrap and crawl his way into the fine art of the square cut level—apprentice only, with myself as my own mentor. In fact I recently bought myself a table saw since doing fine carpentry with nothing but a hand saw just wasn’t cutting it.
Uh…sorry about that.
Now every once in a while my honey requests of me and my two saws and various other implements of destruction; a project, that I could possibly build for her quilt shop. Out of those requests have come two folding walls, one of which was turned into a lighted display for her stained glass items, a L-shaped counter for her customers to stand in front of, a yet unfinished set of frames for two of the aforementioned stained glass items and the latest—a table runner display stand.
I do enjoy making these items for her because she does so much for me without my ever asking and without complaint. I don’t think I’ve ever had to ask for anything at all really so doing these small projects is actually a joy for me. Except for those frames. They have 45 degree angles at the corners and something to do with depth of groove vs length vs angle vs something else and…well…
I’m sure I’ll get those two pieces framed by Christmas anyway.
So here’s the latest project to come out of Kirk’s Square-Cut Carpentry shop:
She drew out a template for me and after a day of constructive cursing, here it is. I do realize that this particular piece of square-cut whiz-bang includes round holes which doesn’t exactly qualify as square-cut but I get crazy once in awhile.
Now those for those frames.
“Honey…Can you cut me some angles?”
Update 03/28/07:
The above quilt rack has been taken to the quilt shop and put through various quality control and functions testing and has been certified Long Meadow Farms ready! (I’m so proud)
I’ve included the official “Certified” photo that was taken as the testing was completed with the rack “fully loaded” with table runners standing next to the “Old Timer” which was the first and only one to qualify when table runners were first produced.
Now to get those those frames glued together….
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