I love looking at everyone else's project pics, so I thought I'd better catch up with some of mine that have been complete for a while now.
The first is one of two identical red oak benches that I built for some extra seating during Christmas time. They're nothing fancy, but were a good refresher exercise in cutting angled tenons and chopping mortises by hand. There are lots of tapers & curved edges, but they don't show up well in the pics. I cut the angled tenons on the table saw, and chopped the mortises by hand after clearing out the waste with my drill press and/or hand drill. They're finished with 4 or 5 coats of General Finishes oil/poly combo. I was pretty happy with how they turned out, especially the through & wedged tenons on the stretchers. The stretchers, however, are both visually and functionally about 2 inches too low, as they hit your achiles tendon when sitting if not careful.
The second pics are of the tables I added to my Rigid mobile SCMS stand. I love the Rigid stand (the actual name is "MSUV - miter saw utility vehicle") for it's portability - I do quite a bit of site work - but I missed having full stock support on both sides as I had in my last shop. Adding these melamine tables was realively easy, and functionaly they're a huge improvement over having only the single rollers. Originally, I attached them to the stand's table and roller stands with a combination of 3/8" bolts, nuts and wingnuts, but found that the bolts flexed too much. My Dad then made a prototype of this new stand for me, which completely solved the flexing problem, and is now making three more to replace the rest of the bolt-mounts. The tables come off in less than one minute, can be reinstalled, leveled and aligned in about three, and are light and robust enough to be easily taken to the jobsite when there's a lot of trim work to do.
I've got a couple more projects, but have run out of room, so I'll do another post.
Thanks for looking. Hope you can get something from them as I almost always do from all of yours.
Mike