Henge Hill Farm
22 Center St.
Bowdoinham, ME 04008
home: (207) 666-5586
cell: (207) 208-7126
Henge Hill Farm
22 Center St.
Bowdoinham, ME 04008
home: (207) 666-5586
cell: (207) 208-7126
The baptismal font is almost finished, just a few more coats of finish on the removable lid and I am done. I will deliver the font Sunday. I plan on posting photos of the font after it's dedication on the 19th of July. After the shop is cleaned up, I have a number of projects in the works. I have been working on a design for a hanging saw-box to store my hand-saws. I have looked at a number of other woodworker's designs on U-tube and the web. While many are nice, I am shying away from an open box with no top and an saws hanging exposed without any cover. I have found that anything exposed just becomes a dust catcher. Building a hanging cabinet with a glass-paned door will give me a chance to bone up on my sash-making skills, something I haven't done in a while. I have two smaller prototype children's Windsors for which I want to make new bows with different profiles than what are on the chairs now. It is a pain to cut stuff off and throw it away, but the design process sometimes requires it. I am happy with everything else about these two designs, but the existing bows suck. Either the curve of the bow is wonky or the size is too big for the rest of the chair. Proportion and smoothness of a bow's curve are important, and sometimes the first effort doesn't cut it. Then there is a Christopher Schwartz style saw till that needs to be retro-fitted in my traveling tool box. Not really something that I have to do, but the current mounting arrangement with saws mounted on the inside of the top hasn't kept the saws from working loose when the tool box is banging around in the back of the trailer. I am always looking for a better idea. It is a bummer to open the chest and find the saws and framing square jumbled together on top of everything else. And finally, I need to get back to working on a batch of hand planes. As you can see I have quite a bit of work a head of me, and this doesn't count the large settee I started last year, or my wife's list. This stuff has been accumulating while I have concentrated on the paying work. Trying to decide what to do first is going to be the big problem.