I made a small serving tray to hold my teapot and cup. The design is from Fine Woodworking, which I adapted to use only hand tools. I also made a few other minor design choices that altered from the plan.
Here's an overview of the build process:
Where the Gunpowder tailwater begins — at Prettyboy Reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland — it’s ranked in the top 100 trout streams in the nation by Trout Unlimited and is a joy to fish (on weekdays when not crowded). Visited the reservoir dam today and it was just beautiful. The swallows own this place.
The mountain laurel is blooming in Gambrill State Park near Frederick, Maryland. And this is my first post on micro.blog after migrating my website.
Here was a challenging project from a few years back that I neglected to post. It involves some difficult joinery.
It looks great from the side.But the joinery in the back is not so nice. It's functional as a square, though, so I'll take it.The project was mostly an exercise in chisel work to clear out the wood.The arm of the square showing the joinery. The curved handle was cut with a bow saw and smoothed out, no big deal.The handle after cutting out the mortise and dovetail, with the completed arm in the background.