Matthew Audette

A quick box this weekend. Beech and walnut, finished in shellac and wax. #handtools #handtoolwoodworking #boxmaking

A quick side project for a friend- a plinth for a 6lb cannon ball. White oak, shellacked, waxed with a home-made pollisoir.

The most important of rituals: post-project-tool-sharpening.

Boom. Now that is a chair. Going to leave it unglued and unwedged for a week or two of sitting to do minor tweaks and make-pretty. Then glue up and paint.

Yeah, I missed that angle by 5* in the reclining direction, but it still feels stable. Pairs nicely with a Summer Shandy.

I do most of my woodworking with #handtools but I routinely used 3d printing for custom jigs. Like here, on the left, where I have a 1" stick at a 25* incline that won't clear the arm. Five minutes in CAD and I've got a custom clearance marker at the right angle.

The "make pretty" stage is where I'm going to address all the wonky tapers on the sticks, right now I just needed it to fit together and not split. On to the back rest and the back sticks tomorrow!

Almost ready for a dry fit of the mortises. The arms are for high because they're balanced on there- the tennons are still a little tight.

More sticks for the stick chair

We have our answer to the age old question of "what if the CSS Hunley, but with Silicon-Valley-Tech-Bro vibes?"

It makes me so, so happy that my neighbors ask for veggies from my garden. Every time I give away heads of lettuce and bags of snap peas and jars of picked radishes I feel just amazing.

The stick chair is starting to look like a chair.

Woooo!

I *really* had intentions to do more this afternoon, but the veggie fried rice I made for lunch was too damn good to not have a send helping. Ugh. Now I'm going to have to nap it off in the hammock.

Sign me up.

The next saw handle oiled up nicely!!