The Big Think

The console table is coming along nicely. It’s also coming together quicker than I thought it would. I’ve only spent 3 work sessions at it and it’s almost completely assembled. I cut the details on the apron today, chamfered the top of the legs, router out the breadboard ends, and created the tenons in the apron pieces. I also fitted each tenon to its corresponding mortise- a tedious job that took a couple of hours with my smallest chisel. Oh, and I sized the top to its final dimension. I still have to but the tenons in the top and attach the breadboard ends and start sanding, sanding, sanding. then it’s off to the finish room.

I’ve noticed that the mahogany legs are quite a bit darker than the mahogany top. The legs are a rich reddish brown and the top is more of a salmon pink color. I hope I can color match the two woods when I do the finish. For that reason I anticipate that the finish is going to take me a week or more. I’m reading Taunon’s “Finishing and Finishing Techniques” book for pointers. I plan on taking my time to make sure I get the finish exactly right. Right now I’m thinking it’ll be some combination of shellac, wax, and some sort of analine dye. All new techniques to me.
Wish me luck.

Okay, this is getting old. Had ANOTHER kernel panic just now (that makes 2 in 3 days). Panic.log says:

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.4.4b1)@0×3e2000

Whatever that means. I was playing a QT movie in Safari from theindernet.com (the Homer Simpson one). *Bam*

This is getting old.

Giles has baby pictures up. Check em out.