J. H. Ralston House
Updated: 2012-02-28 05:59:00
: . . Oculus Fine Carpentry Traditional Sash Joinery , Window Conservation and Research Monday , February 27, 2012 J . H . Ralston House A couple of weeks back I was asked to build 4 Queen Anne sash for an 1895 house in West Linn , Oregon . At the time I was very excited to build these as my own house is a Queen Anne Victorian and I would like to replace some of my vinyl's with something more appropriate . But it soon turned into quite a . challenge The homeowner provided me with one original sash to use as the sample and an old photo taken of the house in 1915. The material originally used was Western Red Cedar , my new least favorite species to work with . In Oregon most 19th c . sash are either Douglas Fir or Western Red Cedar . This cedar is very prone to tearing and it dents very
Building the shell and lid of a traditional, full-size and fully dovetailed tool chest in five days is a challenge. Which is likely why there aren’t a lot of classes offered on the topic. But like Pandora’s Box, something happens when you open the lid to this chest. Yes, it’s just a box filled with Continue reading»
With the carcases of the chests assembled, all that was left was to nail on the bottom boards and the battens designed to rot before the bottom. Oh, and we had to dovetail the lower skirt and upper skirt. And build the lid. And dovetail the dust seal around that. No problem, really. So we Continue reading»
Welcome to the third day of first grade. We are building a chest, ha ha. It’s a big chest, hee hee. And after we slam our chest together we make our bottoms real smooth (snort!), and make small holes in our bottoms (gak!). And I won’t make a joke about bottoms getting nailed. Nope. I Continue reading»
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I finished yesterday fitting the three bottom drawers to the Campaign Secretary I’m building and I started in on building the gallery – it’s all dovetailed now. I’d be quite happy with my progress if I weren’t about to get into a car. For the next 10 days I’ll be on the road, taping a Continue reading»
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I’ve seen a lot of vintage tool chests in my travels, and most of them have been made of pine. What kind of pine? Hard to say. Most pines look the same when they are covered in paint, dirt, grease and what looks like monkey dung. But pine is not the only wood appropriate for Continue reading»
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I have a palm-grip random-orbit sander that I’ve used for many years on household projects that could not be planed because they were too big, such as 16’-long runs of base moulding nailed to a wall, or weren’t designed for handplaning, such as plywood that is covered in paper-thin veneer. A couple years ago, the Continue reading»
I was recently interviewed by Jackie B. Peterson for a program on SoloPro Radio. ere is a link to it. nce you get to the page scroll down to Wednesday Jan. 25th.I talk about how I got started and about my work philosophy.