Blended Woodworking

Things have been a little hectic around here and I haven’t been able to keep up with the blog as much as I would like.  I am sure that many of you have been wondering what happened to the sawtill project.  I am happy to report that it is just about finished.  The only things left to do are turn a few knobs for the drawers and apply a coat of finish.  While I would like to wait to unveil the sawtill until the finish is applied I know that it may be a while before that happens.  Especially since I may not even start on the finish right away.  This is a shop project after all.  

Under normal circumstances I would probably start on the finish tomorrow, but apparently these are not normal circumstances.  My wife and I recently found out that she is pregnant with our second child.  The baby is due in late September.  This also means that late September now corresponds with a firm deadline for the completion of some furniture commissions from SWMBO.  Luckily, I already have a crib I can reuse.  This time around I need to build a bookcase and a dresser.  The bookcase is so that I can clear all of my books out of the existing office which is soon to be a nursery.  The dresser is for my wife so that we can recommission her old dresser for my daughter Aly.

Anyways – without further ado – here is a picture of my almost finished sawtill.

I plan to do a more thorough write up about the sawtill in the near future.  But since there have been other posts I have meant to write that are still undone I figured this picture is a good start.  If you have specific questions or want more detailed photos of something specific leave me a comment and hopefully this will motivate me to add a more detailed description.

I want to point out several key observations that can be made based on this photo.  First and foremost, yes … I have a saw problem. I know that many of you were probably wondering after I posted my initial plans why I would ever make a sawtill that massive.  Well, as you can see, it is almost full.  My wife has already used this fact as an opportunity to point out that I can’t buy many more saws since I don’t have the space.  Ha, like that could stop me.  In all seriousness, if I do buy any more saws I will probably need to cull the herd a little to make room for them.  I don’t want to end up with the same situation I had back in the pre-sawtill days.  I’m sure you can imagine what my shop looked like with all of these saws strewn about.  However, with that said, there is a large empty area in the top right of my sawtill.  This seems like a very good excuse to buy another dovetail saw.  And to think, before I finished this sawtill I thought I had enough dovetail saws.

-Phil