Evapo-Rust To Clean Up Light Tool Rust

I have talked in a few forum posts about this before and I thought I would snap a quick video to show how I use Evapo-Rust. As you can see, it is typically not necessary to submerge a rusted item in the Evapo-Rust – it is powerful enough to just wipe it on light surface rust. I hope you find this useful.

Changing Station Day 6

I have not completed much else. But at least all four side panels are glued up. The widest board I had for the sides was about 9″ after being cleaned up. Also because I do not have a lot of lumber, I decided that I would attempt to “balance” the glue up out and conserve wood by putting a 2.5″ strip on each side of the center board. I think I have pretty decent color match on two of the four panels so I guess one side will have to go against the wall!

Art Frame Update

I just wanted to give a quick update about the frame I made awhile back. Originally the thought was that my father-in-law would paint something for this frame but long story short, my wonderful wife decided to make something for it instead.

The painting she made was taken from a picture I snapped on the Pacific coast just north of San Francisco a couple of Novembers ago. Here is a Google Map link to where the photo was taken.

Class Act

While roaming the market place at last year’s Woodworking in America, I strolled past Dale Barnard’s booth. He had several pieces of furniture on display including a step stool that, if i remember correctly, had just recently been published in Popular Woodworking. But what really caught my eye was an amazing bow arm morris chair. Even before I started woodworking I have wanted a morris chair. To me, the design of the morris chair cannot be beat. Simple and beefy the morris chair’s looks tell it like it is: I’m built to last.

Now a year later I find myself really wanting to take a full on woodworking class to get a serious dose of experience by someone who knows what they are doing. It just so happens that Dale offers a 6 day class on building the chair that is on my bucket list. Needless to say I am excited. The only down side to this tale is that I just missed the summer morris chair class. That means I have to find a way to make it all the way to November without going mad…

Please do yourself a favor and check out Dale’s site. He makes some great looking Greene and Greene furniture! Maybe one of you will get sucked in while you are there and I will be seeing you in November!

Changing Station Day 5

Not much to report today. I chopped 3 mortises and cut 6 tenons to finish up the joinery for the second frame of the baby changing table. I am getting better at chopping the mortises – it seemed to take much less time than normal. I still need to work on sawing the tenons. They fit into the mortises right off the saw but for some reason the reference faces do not always line up. I guess this will get better with practice eh?

In case you forgot what the design looks like, here it is: