Woodworking for the Blind
The stands feature Cherry wood, 23 inches wide, 29 inches tall, 16 inches deep. Drawers 10 1/2 inches wide.
Chest is 32"L X 24"W X 20H. frame and panel construction with a solid walnut top. The frames are painted with white milk paint and the panels are 1/4" walnut plywood.
This light house is made entirely of western Cedar. It has twelve sides. The main tower is ten and a half inches wide thirty four inches tall. The light to the top of the roof is aprox. another sixteen inches and Then there is a round wooden ball about an inch and one half inches in diameter and a five inch lightning rod coming out of it. The tower has eight windows with red curtains and a door painted red. The tower is painted Tan. Twenty eight inches up is the observation walk way which is an octagon. This as well as the light base is stained red Mahogany. There are eight post and double rails which are painted white around the octagon walk platform and the post have red Mahogany caps. The ball and rod as well as the two rods that hold on the roof are painted red.
This swing is made from a reclaimed slaigh bed.
The table is 60" long x 36" wide x 31.5" high. The sides of the table are 60" long and the middle pieces are 30' inches with a 1/4" gap between them. I did what I think is a tongue and groove to have the middle pieces slide into place. The legs are a tressel style.
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These are two benches made of 2 inch ceadar. The benches are 48" by 11" and or 19 inches tall.
The single Butterfly house is just under a foot tall completed and the 2 tier is about 18 inches while the 3 tier comes in around 24 inches tall. I do not cut the 1 x4 or the 1 x 6 board widths. thus, the exterior dimension of each Butterfly house is 5.5 inches by 5 inches.
Overview: This is a toy something like a reel style push lawn mower. The general form is a 2 pronged fork with the shaft 17 inches long from the top to the bifurcation. The overall height of the fork is 30 inches. There is a cross brace of oak flat across the bottom but with a concave arc on the top edge set 4 inches above the tip of the fork tines spanning the space between. There are two shaped dowels projecting from the sides of the shaft very near the top forming a �T� handle. Actually the handles are Shaker pegs intended for hanging clothes on a wall or door.Between the ends of the tynes is the wheel assembly.The wheel assembly consists of two 6 inch diameter wooden wheels separated 8 inches apart by 4 3/4ths inch dowels evenly spaced around the inside faces of the wheels. The wheel assembly is pivoted on 3/4ths hardwood dowels inserted through the tines near their end and fitted into stopped holes in the wheel.
The tractor is made from a solid block of maple, 18 inches long, 8 inches high and 4 inches thick.