How not to build a shelf

This is one of 3 shelf's that the previous owners left behind. This is also an example of how NOT to build a shelf. I do not have a picture of one of them as it is not replaced by my 12' shelf. The other is fairly decent long shelf hidden right now by old dressers and such.

The shelf pictured here no longer exists either. It has been replaced by my first work bench.

Side project

My Grandfather passed away a few years ago. He lived in a house that he purchased 70+ years ago. During that time he acquired several pieces of older furniture.

My parents acquired the house and property from the estate after he passed on. Left in the house were several of the old dressers and such. I loaded those up on the back of a pickup truck and brought them down to my place. My goal is to refinish these pieces. Some are a really nice wood but have been painted over or have really old cruddy stain/varnish coatings on them.

Here are some of the pictures of these pieces.

First Project

After my wife and I got married she moved into my place. I already had an established household furniture and all. As my wife had moved from the East Coast to be out here all her stuff was still in storage, It sat in storage for over a year.

Now that we moved all her stuff came out of storage and was moved into the house. This created a problem of too much stuff in the house. We have been slowly working on sorting through the stuff but there is a lot of stuff to go through.

A solution I came up with was we needed more storage space. SO, in my new fancy garage I build a large shelf almost 12' long. Here are some of the pictures of this project.

Blog update and redirection

It has been a while. I have a few quick updates.

• I ended up not getting married on December 31st. We moved it up to the Saturday before and were married on December 27th.
• We recently made the plunge into home ownership with a all the low rates and being a buyers market. We purchased a 40 year old rambler that needs some loving care, not quite to the point were it needs TLC.
• Our new house has a detached garage / shop. This is not a typical garage, it is a steel building designed to house a large RV, big enough to house two in fact.
• This garage has become my work shop for doing wood working.

That being said I will be turning the focus of this blog to talking about my woodworking projects. This will not be a daily blog as woodworking is only a hobby and I have a limited budget for tools, wood, and supplies. I do have some lofty goals for my woodworking such as side boards, beds, dressers ect. To start off I will only be working on skill building projects such as small boxes and shop tools and jigs.