Raise it a notch: A walnut base

[Al Navas]

From my blog:

A simple outline on a legal envelope defined my next project:

1. Join several boards into a large panel (the base).
2. Smooth the glued seams the best you can.
3. Make sure all seams are now seamless, and smooth.
4. Find thick wood, to raise top platform; machine to size.
5. Find one wide board for top platform, and shape properly.
6. Shape riser insert and top platform together, for looks.
7. Shape the back of the base to resemble the others.
8. Sand to 150 grit first; then to 180 grit, taking special precaution with all edges (don’t want any threads snagging).
9. Use pegs to join top to riser, and also to join base to riser.
10. Remove all saw dust thoroughly before taking into sewing room.
11. Important: No finish on this special platform.
12. Allow your wife the honors of placing embroidery machine on new platform.
13. Wife places granddaughter’s dress, T-shirt, or some other such garment on embroidery machine more easily than ever possible (the garment now slides under the top arm).
14. Results: A wonderful thank you!


------ Al

[Mark Norman]

#14....priceless

[John Keeton]

Al, not only are you a superb woodworker, but your skill at "wife pleasing" is a model for the rest of us! Quick and useful - my kind of project.

[John Lohmann]

simple, yet does the job, my wife might get something similar to that for her b-day

[Al Navas]

Mark,
It is always priceless to see her reaction...

John K,
Thanks! Forty-two years together does that to a guy . It is the little things she usually needs, too.

John L,
Her birthday is the perfect occasion. She will love it.


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