So I finally "completed" completed my saw till over the weekend. Many years
ago I made the till portion capable of holding my saws, but I am renowned
for getting a job to 80% completion and just moving on. My wife claims it
to be an Aries trait...I don't know but I do struggle with it so I made a
goal during this Covid thing to attempt getting a number of my
semi-completed jobs all the way through. So I was able to add the dividers
and drawer units to the bottom (formerly a single open shelf) and get
everything painted up. The wood is southern yellow pine deadfall from my
yard that I cut years ago with a chainsaw mill and the drawer fronts are an
old red oak tabletop that I hung onto as scrap for projects. The knobs,
Bradford pear that also came from my yard. When the drawer fronts were done
I saw how important it is to match grain - as if I wasn't already aware of
that. But my drawer fronts looked so much like S#$t as the grain was all
over the place that I was left with no choice but to add a few coats of
black milk paint to go with the green milk paint (my shop colors). The
black was coated with BLO whereas the green was shellacked with some old
amber shellac just shy of spoiling. I wanted to "age" the green a bit - I
like the look. For the most part this was all done galootish and I left
many of the plane marks. In fact I didn't even attempt to smooth plane the
interior panels.

But I can safely say it is good to complete a project 100% - there is no
little brain "chad" irritating you if you will. Pics here -
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zUYxP131XjbDo2476

Scott Garrison
Duluth GA

Beautiful work, Scott. Thanks for sharing.

Greg Isola
Alameda, CA

Classic and classy. Love the paint job.

Brian

Pardon my echo, but right nice and I too love the colors.

Nicely done.  But multiple drawers?  Setting the bar kinda high here aren't
we?  I was lucky the cabinet I repurposed had one drawer.  Well done all
around.


On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:11 AM Scott Garrison 
wrote:

> ... So I was able to add the dividers and drawer units to the bottom
> (formerly a single open shelf) and get
> everything painted up.
>
> But I can safely say it is good to complete a project 100% - there is
> no little brain "chad" irritating you if you will. Pics here -
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/zUYxP131XjbDo2476
>
-- 
Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA, sitting through more meetings

Looks great! I like the colors.
Thanks for sharing.

Chris

On 2020-10-05 11:11 a.m., Scott Garrison wrote:
> So I finally "completed" completed my saw till over the weekend. Many years
> ago I made the till portion capable of holding my saws, but I am renowned
> for getting a job to 80% completion and just moving on. My wife claims it
> to be an Aries trait...I don't know but I do struggle with it so I made a
> goal during this Covid thing to attempt getting a number of my
> semi-completed jobs all the way through. So I was able to add the dividers
> and drawer units to the bottom (formerly a single open shelf) and get
> everything painted up. The wood is southern yellow pine deadfall from my
> yard that I cut years ago with a chainsaw mill and the drawer fronts are an
> old red oak tabletop that I hung onto as scrap for projects. The knobs,
> Bradford pear that also came from my yard. When the drawer fronts were done
> I saw how important it is to match grain - as if I wasn't already aware of
> that. But my drawer fronts looked so much like S#$t as the grain was all
> over the place that I was left with no choice but to add a few coats of
> black milk paint to go with the green milk paint (my shop colors). The
> black was coated with BLO whereas the green was shellacked with some old
> amber shellac just shy of spoiling. I wanted to "age" the green a bit - I
> like the look. For the most part this was all done galootish and I left
> many of the plane marks. In fact I didn't even attempt to smooth plane the
> interior panels.
>
> But I can safely say it is good to complete a project 100% - there is no
> little brain "chad" irritating you if you will. Pics here -
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/zUYxP131XjbDo2476
>
> Scott Garrison
> Duluth GA

Very nice Scott, but you know it's not really complete until the drawers 
are completely filled!

Don

-- 
On 9/11, 2,977 people died. By 10/2020, 210,000 and counting...

anarchist

  - One who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist.
  - One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in
particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.

moral nihilism - Amorality, the belief that morality does not exist, that no
action, thought or behavior is morally right or morally wrong.

thanks for the kudos folks...and Don they have been filled with the first
round of items. Saw files and saw screws in one, two and four fold rules as
well as small squares in another. Saw sets in the middle and detritus
everywhere else. I'm sure that overtime things will gravitate
appropriately. Now that I loaded all of my better saws in the till, I
actually have to sharpen them. Some are seriously dull.

Scott

Sorry 'bout that.  Copied the URL, but when i posted, it went straight
to the photo. 

Look at the fifth tool down. 

https://hobelaxt.wordpress.com/category/sagen-bohren-pressen-saw-drill-
press-scier-percer-presser/">https://hobelaxt.wordpress.com/category/sagen-
bohren-pressen-saw-drill-press-scier-percer-presser/


Mike in Woodland

Farther down on the same site I mentioned before are two or three groups
of similar saws, some of which are toothed to pull.  It's another page: 

https://hobelaxt.wordpress.com/category/sagen-bohren-pressen-saw-drill-
press-scier-percer-presser/page/2/">https://hobelaxt.wordpress.com/category
/sagen-bohren-pressen-saw-drill-press-scier-percer-presser/page/2/


Mike in Woodland