Projects of Warren Valente

These are the projects of Warren Valente jadvale@yahoo.com who is from Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.

"I finally finished the 12' skiff I started in May. Here are a few pictures along with a link to a a website/blog I created as I was going along.  http://manometmarina.weebly.com. Now I start a down to the studs living room renovation."

"While I'm waiting for the weather here in New England to break, so I can start my 12' skiff project (which I'll need to do outdoors due to a lack of shop space), I decided to make a set of oars. In this picture is the before (2x6 framing spruce) and the after. It still needs to be painted."

"The chest was originally made by the father of a friend of mine. He used old pew panels he scrounged from an old church renovation. They are quarter sawn white oak and very heavy. I disassembled the entire piece. (Good thing he used screws.)  I sanded and stripped off the old varnish, which had turned almost black with age. The top was too far gone. It had water rings and was delaminating. I fabricated a new top and matched the color to the sides and front. New hardward completed the restoration."

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"The lighthouse was built from a set of plans given to me by a friend for Christmas. It is a little over 5' tall and was made from a single piece of 3/4 plywood, and a few scraps of 1/4'. It is topped off with a solar light, usually seen along a walkway."

"I made these stacking tables as a house warming gift for my daughter, Jamie, who bought her first house last June. The tables are ash with red oak tops. She can use this and it would later become an heirloom. The tops started out to be ash as well, but I booted the glue up and had no more ash on hand. So I substituted some oak that I had from a previous project. I think the two woods look good together. The finish is satin wipe-on poly. It's just about all I ever use anymore."

"The garden bench is poplar with Cabot's New Cedar stain. I should probably have used cedar, but as it is, the poplar cost me $175. I wanted to use a relatively cheap wood for my first attempt. I swore I would never build another one, because it was a lot of work. The legs are three pieces of 3/4" laminated together. The handrails and top and bottom rails are double laminations. I might consider another one next winter. This time with cedar."

"I drove lag bolts into the legs and it sits on four bricks, to prevent water from wicking up the legs."

"These are for a 30 year old aluminum canoe that I am refurbishing. It came with aluminum tubular thwarts. I removed them and fashioned the thwarts and portage yoke from ash and finished them with three coats of thinned boiled linseed oil. The canoe did not come with seats. It is for purists who kneel when they paddle. Not me. My arthritic knees require a seat. The two seat frames you see are sanded and ready for finish and webbing.

"Here's my latest. A little different style Adirondack chair. I got the plans as a Christmas present. If I make another, I would make some modification. Pretty comfortable chair though."

"Here are a couple pics of two recent projects. The vanity was part of a complete down to the studs and plywood floor bathroom remodel."

"The whale is a bandsawn box made from a single block of wood. It is a prototype of what I hope to be
Christmas presents."

"This cd rack was built for my daughter from a picture in a catalog. (Pine with sliding dovetail joints)."

"This blanket chest was a gift for her college graduation.
It's also pine with golden pecan stain and numerous coats of wipe-on poly."

"Here is the final project of the bedroom remodel I undertook last February. This bookcase headboard, like the chest of drawers below, is oak ply with solid oak strips and mouldings. The halogen lights are independent of each other. The doors slide to hide the mechanics of the electrical work."

"This is an oak chest of drawers I built this spring as part of a bedroom remodel project I just completed. The carcase is oak ply with solid oak drawer fronts. Minwax Golden Pecan stain and three coats of semigloss poly. Very heavy piece."

"The hall table (oak) was a quickee project to fill a small wall between two bedroom doors. I made the floral arrangement out of silk flowers for my wedding in 2000. (I was a florist in a previous life)"

"The shaker plant stand (pine)was a take off of Norm's Shaker stepstool project. I made mine a little less steep, to handle different size plants."

"The tray (ash) and cranberry scoop (pine)magazine rack were Christmas presents this year. I made several of both."

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