What is everyone working on?

As a guy with an unheated shop I must live vicariously through you all until it warms up.....so what is everyone working on these days. Include pics if you have them!
Doug in Louisville
 
You can read about my current project here -- a Queen Anne style desk for my wife. I feel your pain. My shop is in the basement, which was unheated until a couple of years ago. I now have heat/AC and can work throughout the year. However, I'm currently waiting on the temperature to warm so I can finish spraying shellac, something I have to do in the garage to avoid all the overspray and fumes.

I've also resumed another project I'd put on hold. I'm building a chevalet for use in marquetry. What project do you have planned when the weather warms?
 
I have several....want to build a new bench but that has to wait until I build a sideboard for the wife. What I am super excited about is coming in July....attending a Daniel Faia workshop for 3 days!
 
Dennis, that sounds like quite a project. One that you can't delay and stretch out. Otherwise you end up on a couch for months with an angry wife. LOL.
 
Guys, looking to get plans for large fancy mahogany tilt top pie crust table. Advise please.
Ed, we have a Baroque tilt-top tea table in the Phil Lowe Library. That likely doesn't meet your criteria of "fancy" and is not pie-crust. SAPFM members have access to the Member-Submitted Plan Library which does have a full scale drawing of a Chippendale pie-crust tilt top table by Scott Calkins (published 2003).
 
Ed, we have a Baroque tilt-top tea table in the Phil Lowe Library. That likely doesn't meet your criteria of "fancy" and is not pie-crust. SAPFM members have access to the Member-Submitted Plan Library which does have a full scale drawing of a Chippendale pie-crust tilt top table by Scott Calkins (published 2003).
Mark, that's terrific. How do I get a copy please.
 
In the "Members Only" there is a section called "Members Submitted Plans". There will find downloadable plans.
That’s right. If you don’t see a “Member’s Only” menu item on our website, it means you either (1) aren’t logged in, (2) don’t have an active membership, or (3) both.
 
I have decided to dive deep into all things federal furniture and start figuring out how historic elements were done but with todays modern amenities.

It’s time to have many of regional bellflowers laid out. It’s time for the bellflower tambour doors to be made and laid out in detail. The federal card table with bellflower apron it’s time for a how to. The list goes on. I hope to write the process out into a book of sorts. Maybe even do some short in process videos. All of this while making federal furniture inspired by originals for the home.
 
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