Dredging Up Some Older Drawings

Hi Dave,
Did you ever build any of these? I really like the screen, and the boat is sensational.
Robb

Thanks Robb,

Well, I did build the boat and the clamps—made a dozen of them. I haven’t built any of the others. I was going to build the dining chairs but SWMBO isn’t so keen on them. I’ve got some of the lumber seasoning for the sideboard and server but I need to get more.

I’m hoping the bench will be the next project in the shop.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Thanks Dave! How do you tighten the clamps?

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/

I didn’t bother to draw them but there are wingnuts to tighten them. I used carriage bolts and the shoulder is a press fit into the square hole. in the lower jaw. I made them out of Baltic birch plywood. I cut the grooves and rabbets in long pieces which were cut in half and glued together to make the thickness.

I worked out the location for the clamp profiles and their spacing on the glue up. Then I drilled the holes for the hinge pins. This gave me an easy way to locate the template at one end. After tracing out the jaws using a template, I rough sawed them and then used the template and a pattern trimming bit to smooth them.

The hinges were made from a stick of walnut sized to fit int he slots on the end of the jaws. I put a top and bottom jaw together, slide the hinge stock into the slot and drilled it for 1/4” dowels which were glued into the jaw but not to the hinge. Then I sawed the hinge stock off and moved on to the next clamp. After they were all made, I smoothed off the ends of the hinge at the sander and got on with planking the boat.

The planks on the boat are 1/8” thick pine and I needed some very lightweight clamps because I didn’t want to deform the planks during the construction. They had to have deep throats to reach the overlap.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Dave, nice work on these designs as usual. I picked up some nice Cherry and Black Walnut this morning from my buddy with a sawmill, and when I arrived, he was talking to a guy about starting up a Sketchup “class” for the local woodworking club. We actually talked about that for most of the time I was there.

(Sidetracked as usual) The point was supposed to be, I spend more time talking about it and designing in S.U. than I do actually making anything I design in it.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

Dave,
There all great, but that wine cabinet is outstanding. Both simple and elegant at the same time…

Tom

-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes.

Your work is something else. If not otherwise noted some of them look like photographs.

I’ve been watching the thread on the New Fangled Workbench, and one of these days I must build it!!

-- Joe

Thats quite a selection of work Dave…pretty impressive. I like your attention to details and the way you strive for realism in your texture selection and grain orientation. You have a flair for combining SU styles and using them to convey a feeling with your images. I’m not a big fan of the watercolor style but you use it effectively. On the flip side I love the sketchy extended line style and you seem to use it allot..I like that..just puts the “human” element back into a “computer” drawing program! Your design ideas are sound and uncomplicated….What did you use to do the Stickley/Morris chair render?
Thanks for sharing your work…I think we need a dedicated SU/Woodworking gallery here on Lumberjocks!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Dave – these are some of the most realistic SU models I have seen. Very nice work. BTW, are the models available somewhere?

Thanks!

-- Praki, Aspiring Woodworker

Thank you all.

Brad, I think the Morris chair render was done with an early trial version of Podium. The wine cabinet render was done with Kerkythea.

The watercolor style I made really doesn’t work too well with complex models. SImple is best.

Praki, no. these models aren’t available. Sorry.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Hey Dave you are truely a “master” of google sketch up.

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

I really like the renderings done with SketchUP. You have a great collection of work samples.

Cheers,

-- Matthew Weatherly

Dave, Really beautiful work, both in SU and in Wood. I especially like the boat. It is so great…. and the little one in it makes even more special.

Cheers, Master!

Grasshopper

Hi All, Hi Dave,
I remember well all these sketches because I’ve a nice collection from you on my PC for a long ;-)
But always a pleasure to see them again.
Cheers,

-- Jean-Franco

That screen is reallly nice. Keep on blathering :-))

-- Use the fence Luke

Encouraging and depressing at the same time. I have just started using Sketchup. I find it very useful for the rudimentary tasks that I have had the courage to take on. Where I used to do rough sketches of the articles I planned to build, I now do Sketchups. So far, making rectangles and circles with offsets and a push-pull here and there is about what I have mastered.

I’ll probably never do anything that will get posted where others can see it but you works are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing them with us.

I’ll look for them in the Sketchup Archives.

-- Making Sawdust Safely

Sorry Dusty. I only intended to be encouraging.

I expect you’ll learn how to manage in SketchUp and you’ll do the high quality stuff you want to do. Learning the proper techniques from the beginning is a good thing though.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.