Hardy Mountain Woodworks

New bed for our grandaughter coming along nicely💕💕

All done! Even hid the electrical cords😜
Onto the next project…🤔🤔🤔

Todays project make a bigger tv fit in a smaller space🤔🤔🤔🤔

All done!
We attached these floating end tables to the wall using a French cleat!
Finished them with Odies Oil to enhance the beautiful grain!

Changing up the design as we go, decided not to add the drawer, just a place to put more junk! Going to put some beautiful roundovers on the edges!
Less is best…. for us anyway👍
”Decluttering is not about perfection, it’s about freedom”

Floating end tables have begun!
Look at the beautiful grain in this birch!

Finished off a hope chest I started about 10 yrs ago! Just going to add some black hardware!
One more thing off my checklist✅

Next project….. floating bedroom end tables….. love the minamilistic look of these! Do you?

Grazing table complete! Used a mortise and tenon joint! Finished the fir sides and maple top with Odies oil! She’s a beauty!

It must almost be winter… back in the shop starting on another ottoman/ grazing table using fir and maple🙏

In love with these fir and walnut stools 👏👏🙏 matches so well with my tigerwood floors!

When your wife decides to bring home a few pieces of black walnut from a plywood store in Penticton and says can you make the top of my new eating bar stools with this…….but they aren’t the best pieces ( knots, cracks etc🙈) and she wants you to make something out of nothing…. You do👏👏👏
Excited to see them when they are finished!

Another shop stool in the making!
Used these very old pieces of fir that looked like nothing special!
This wood was in somebody’s garbage pile and he pulled it out and took all the nails out of it because he knew that you don’t find pieces like this very often!
The depth of the grains were so striking once he planed and joined them😱😱

Quick little shop stool project today!

Maple table is complete…. Just beautiful!

Side project today, made some new push sticks for my joiner, love my ergonomic handle design ( safety first)

Starting to put the finish on this beauty❤️

The mortise and tenon for the breadboard ends took all day🙈🙈
Now making sure it is deadly flat😜

He’s finally getting back in the shop after a bout of Tennis elbow🙈
Found some beautiful maple at Windsor plywood!
Building the table top using biscuits!
The glue up is the most stressful part, my wife helps me with these and keeps me calm😜😜😜

Dining room table project has begun! Using a more European streamline looking frame!

That’s a wrap! I am completely in love with my early birthday gift❤️❤️

We are calling this “ the grazing table” almost complete! Just need some Odies oil👍

Mortise and tenons done! Now for more sanding and the glue up😜 Took him 2 days to do the mortise and tenons! He said if he’s going to do this advance woodworking he needs some new tools😂😂😂

Ottoman table! Glued up and sanded with 120 grit still needs the 180 grit!
Doing a joint he’s never done before called a through wedged mortise and tenon🙈 Very precisioned technique!
Wish him luck🙏🙏

The vision and where we are at 😜 gotta start somewhere!
This birch is absolutely stunning going to keep it as natural looking as possible!

Ready for its new home❤️ ❤️

Wowsers! Finishing up this tabletop with a product called “ Odies Oil! We follow “ The Samurai Carpenter” on YouTube and he uses it on everything!
It truly brings out the natural grain and beauty of this wood!
You buff it on leave for an hour and buff off!
This is coat number 2, someone’s gonna have a sore shoulder lol wax on, wax off😜😜

Coming along nicely!
Going to use some epoxy to fill any grub holes or knots and then a natural stain and a satin polyeurathane finish! She’s a beauty!

The making of the breadboard ends takes a lot of intricate work with the router, cutting out the tongues and grooves to fit together seamlessly!

The reason we do these ends is to allow for expansion and retraction of the wood!

Almost ready for the glue up!

Day 1 of table top production!
It starts with 11 rough 2 by 6 boards that are planed and joined and any bad knots or grub holes are removed!
Then we join the boards together in 2 larger pieces using biscuits and glue… lots of glue🙈
Then we manipulate the boards with the clamps and a wood mallet to remove any bows.
Then we cut to size and get ready for a ton of sanding to make them mould together to look like one beautiful slab of wood!
Working on the breadboard ends today that will attach to each end of the finished slab👍

Ooh la la…. We get excited when we get beautiful slabs👏👏👏
I think I might have to put an order in… # always at the back of the line🙈