I can't stand the number of unfinihsed projects I have around my shop. Most of them are by-products of video shoots and classes. I make props, and never get around to turning the props into completed projects.
I'll pick on my friend Tim. He's got two guitars that he started in 2007. They're both about 4 steps from being done. Completing them is on our to-do list.
How about you? What's the oldest project that's languishing in your shop?
G
When I started graduate school I built a set of bookshelves and had designed a pair of end tables to go with it. Finished the bookshelves (well, dad did - ran out of time before leaving for school) and started on the end tables. Haven't finished them yet.
Oh, yeah, they've been sitting waiting to be completed since 1989... :)
David
We started a bedroom set this fall and the dresser and night stand are assembled, but the final drawer fitting is needed. The drawers are piston-fit dovetailed red oak and the final task is to cut a 1/16" relief on the bottom of the drawer face so the gap around each drawer is uniform. I hand planed the rest of the fits and I must be afraid of the final steps, because it has sat there since Thanksgiving. I've done several other projects since. I'm hoping your encouragement is enough to get me going.
Kevin
I made a kitchen table in 2000. In 2001 (actually Sept 10, 2001) I began a 2 week chair design course at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine sothat i could have chairs for my table. By mid 2004 I had completed my first 2 kitchen chairs. I had also completed the majority of the parts for the remaining 2 chairs, which included maple seat frame of bent lamination, maple chair back of bent lamination and 7 walnut curved back slats, once again of bent lamination. In 2009 i completed chair number 3 and just last week i completed chair number 4...i was really sick of tripping over the chair parts that had been stuffed under my work bench for almost 8 years. Oddly enough the older chairs are in good shape and don't looked older than the new chairs so i guess all worked out ok.
I had intended to start a bedroom set this week, but I'm also looking at 2 unfinished table tops that I made in a decorative veneer class that I took in Maine 8-9 years ago, plus a large number of turned bowls and vessels that i planned to decorate in various ways with some pretty expensive bits that I purchased about a year ago.
I'm thinking that if i finish some of this stuff i'll have room enough in my shop to actually build the bedroom set. Oh, by the way, I also have a 2 foot by 6 foot glueup of maple for a bar for my son's home sitting on sawhorses between my table saw (which is stuffed against my jointer) and my workbench. It's been there awhile too.
jane
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