Mary Ostler

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I had a blast this weekend. I went into the dusty depths of my wood-shop on Saturday morning, and didn’t come out till Sunday 6pm. (sleeping eating and biffy breaks excluded). The very best thing of all, I now have the dust extraction lines/hoses established at all my major dust making tools. It was amazing [...]

I managed to get all the wood ripped to the right widths. Taking the time to build a proper jig for the table saw helped out loads.   I assembled the pieces only to discover that I didn’t cut the seat board bevels quite short enough.  They are all sitting around an inch out of [...]

Not really a very good update, but I just had to share the photo’s of the pretty wood. I have ripped all my reddish wood to 3/4″. The pieces are a little bowed still so I will be needing to make a jig to rip the edges down straight. I could have done it before [...]

I will be using for my x-chair. It stalled out my tablesaw 6 times to do the one rip. It also ended up tapering the begining and end to the plank…doh Just means more work for the mortising holes. picture doesn’t do the color justice. On a related note… does anyone dye with wood sawdust? [...]

More progress on the x-chair front. After pulling all the nails out of the skid runners, I moved on to ripping the runners into 3/4″ x 3″ planks. My tablesaw got one hell of a work out ripping these boards to size. The wood is incredibly hard, and after only 2 runners I decided to [...]

I decided to clean up the shop this weekend. Spent a good portion of Saturday cleaning the work bench and table saw top off, and freeing up some much needed floor space. I then decided to finally install my dust extraction system. I decided to place all the 2.5″ piping along the ceiling as the [...]

I was playing with the prototype chair, when tragedy struck. The X-Chair is now an Ex-Chair. Couldn’t stop laughing. Destruction Rules!

Got a little more done on the x-chair pro-type. I cut the legs to 32″ and the seat slats to 16″ Made a makeshift Drill Jig (to make sure all the holes are drilled in the same spot.) Drilled the legs and seat with a 5/16th drill bit (roughly half the thickness of the legs [...]

The next big project I am working on is an X-chair. I have no plans, no step by step instructions. What would be the fun if someone else did all the heavy lifting. To get myself familiar with what I was making, I decided to do a quick mock up using Popsicle sticks and tooth [...]