Enter Here! Weekend Project Contest
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Here’s where you can post entries for the First Annual Woodworking Life Weekend Project Contest. Check our Woodworking Life blog for all the details:
http://blogs.taunton.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?webtag=woodworkinglife
Edited 9/3/2008 1:37 pm ET by David5346
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I get a blank page when I click on the link. Can you retry?
I got the same and gave up thinking it is part of the paid content side.
Yep, that 404 page pretty much sums it up.
http://www.superwoodworks.com
The only meaning is that we were moving too fast for our own good when we pasted in the link. It should be fixed now. My apologies.
David Heim
Managing Editor
FineWoodworking.Com
David
The link is running me around in circles. Do you have a roadmap?
Mutiger,
I'm sorry you've having difficulty. However, I just tried the link again, and it works fine for me. Could I persuade you to give it another shot? Or, just post your entry right here and forget about the link.
Best,
David HeimManaging EditorFineWoodworking.Com
David.. The link worked for me the first time today..
I cannot enter because I am SURE one of my daughters will call for help at their home on any weekend.. For something so abstract as plumbing! Not that easy to do though many times!
I would think a child toy! Whatever it is..Truck, A Crane.. Kids LOVE lifting stuff UP and Down!
My four old China Doll can do one of those 100 piece puzzles.. OK so sometimes I help.. I arrange several choices for her to pick from!
Damn she is one smart little girl! But fussy about toys! She love my Crane..
Yes I know this is Finewoodworking.. BUT... a thought..
I made several ... Contractors-Grade Mobile Crane from WOOD Magazine.. (September?) for my friends and the neighbors child. He is Autistic.
A beautiful boy that only would play with plastic Dino.. animals (nothing wrong with that in my mind)
His Dad told me... his eyes lit up and slept with the toy!
His Dad said he NEVER sleeps with anything near him!
I made one all glued together and NO strings for him to get hurt on to sleep with...
I'd bet he knows the difference, but still like the toy!
Edited 9/5/2008 12:14 pm by WillGeorge
I was unable to find the correct link so I posted the project under Knots and called it the weekend project.
Here's my weekend project. I made this cedar pipe box for a Native American relative. The bottom and top frame rails were made from old growth cedar found in an abandoned barn in Missouri. The top, bottom and side panels are made from new growth cedar. The hinges and hasp are made from hammered horseshoe nails, the handle from a Sonoran White tail deer antler and is gussied up with a staggered row of brass pins. The finish is shellac and carnuba wax. The box was a real hit because when the light hits the side and end panels just right you find a number of bird fetishes in the knots.
Mutiger
Here is another weekend project; that helped earn some brownie points with my wife. The blank is made up of purple heart and cherry; I took a class on making peppermills at the local woodworking store; went home and made this one.
after several loops, going from the 'click here to enter', to here, and back again, this is my entry for the contest.
coffee table, african mahogany, red oak stain, 3 coats poly spar varnish, granite tiles, and glass.
tell me where to send the picture.
Dear dan11,
You can post an image here in a Knots post
A weekend project I built a long time ago is a quilt rack made out of red oak. Pretty simple concept, just two 1 1/2" thick sculpted sides with two runners on the bottom, two 3/4" oak dowels for support and three 1" oak dowels to support the quilts. The dimensions of the rack are 29" long x 32" high x 21" deep. The legs are attached to the upper section and feet with 3/8" dowels (it was a popular method back in the eighties). I laminated the sides by gluing two 3/4" boards face to face but if I were to remake the piece, I would spring for the 1 1/2" thick stock so there would be no seems. I rounded over the sides with a 1/2" round over router bit once the entire side was put together.
The quilt rack remained in my parents bedroom for nearly twenty years before it was retired and will be put into an upcoming yard sale. It's nice looking back at things I made when I was a kid and seeing how far my woodworking skills have come over the years.
Mike
Edited 9/7/2008 12:03 pm ET by mvflaim
ok, gonna try this again...
here it is, the coffee table, african mahogany, granite tiles in the corners, glass insert, red oak stain, with poly spar varnish.
My weekend project entry is a shaker style black walnut hall table with tapered legs and cherry butterfly inlays that I made as a wedding gift this summer.
It's ~ 34"h x 12"d x 38"w. The tapers were straight forward and done with a tapering jig on the TS. The inlays were routered with an inlay template guide. Finish is shellac and tung oil.
Edited 9/14/2008 11:02 am ET by Knotscott
To all:
Thanks to everyone who entered. Our contest is now closed. We'll choose a winner soon.
David Heim
Managing Editor
FineWoodworking.com
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