| This blog is written by ChicoWoodnut | 25 entries so far |
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Greene inspired Night Stand #22: Top finished and Mounting Drawer Runners and Kickers
I’m getting ready to finally wrap this up. I finished the tops and made Drawer runners and...
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Traditional Workbench #2: Updated Sketchup Model
I haven’t had much shop time in December due to work related travel/projects and Holiday re...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #21: Ball Catches, Trim parts and making the top
Well this project is taking WAY longer than I had anticipated but I am still enjoying it. ...
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Traditional Workbench #1: Design - A Sketchup model
I have been fiddling around with designing a bench. I created a Sketchup model and I am becoming...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #20: Setting Ebony Plugs
I spent some time today setting the ebony plugs I made in my last entry. It was pretty easy real...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #19: Making Lots of Ebony Plugs
I have been making Ebony plugs for the nightstands. There are 96 plugs in this project (48 per n...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #18: Making Drawers
I have been building the drawers. Here is a jpg of the model. I started with some l...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #17: Glue up + fitting and hanging doors
In my last entry I mortised Brusso knife hinges into the case. The next step is glueing up the c...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #16: Door glueup and Brusso knife hinges
I glued up the doors and set in knife hinges this week. Here are a few photos of the process. ...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #15: Blacker indent summary - Lots of sanding on this detail
I decided to summarize the Blacker Indent detail. I don’t own a belt sander so I did thi...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #14: More on the fly design work. I'm happy - more pics too
After more thinking and feedback from the group I decided to have another go at the indent detail...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #13: Reversing course - a Design decision
While making doors and sanding, I have been thinking about what to do with the bottoms of the leg...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #12: Dust panel solution
I thought about this problem and came up with the following solution. This is one side of the du...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #11: Dust Panel construction - Thinking out loud
I am ready to start constructing the dust panel for this project. Having never made a dust panel...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #10: Laying in the bottom
Here is number ten of my Greene and Greene inspired nightstand. I put the bottoms in today. I...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #9: Laying in the front top stretcher
This is part nine in this series. If you havn’t already seen them, don’t forget to b...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #8: Cloudlift panels
I did a little work cutting panels tonite so I thought I would update. I cut the panels to mat...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #7: Ebony - how do I tool it?
I bought five pieces of gabon ebony from e-bay. It arrived today. I have never worked with ebony ...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #6: Templates and Cloudlifts
Last night I made the master template. I have been thinking for a long time about how to do this...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #5: Progress
I figured i would post a quick progress note. I have cut all the tenons for the case and fitted ...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #4: Milling Legs
The weekend here in Northern California has been extraordinary. Spring is in the air. A pesky m...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #3: Cutting up boards
I bought 35 bd ft of Hondo Mahogany. It’s been stickered for about a week. I cut it all u...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #2: Storm pause
I got over to the lumber store to look at some mahogany last Thursday. Friday we had the storm o...
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Greene inspired Night Stand #1: Time to start the execution phase
Well I think I am finally done with the design of this piece. I made a change last night which i...
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Glad I found this site
Well thats about all the time I can spend on creating my own LJ site for today. I am really look...
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