Small Entertainment Cabinet #4: A little side tracked, again...

Since the rest of the entertainment cabinet is one color, I think this would add a nice accent to the unit. As long as the rest of the unit is not too busy to clash with this, it’ll be beautiful and elegant. But then again, maybe you should just scrap it all and send it to my house so you can start over and do it the way you really want it to look like . . . }:)~ Only problem is my house isn’t quite large enough. I’ll need to build another floor and raise the roof and buy my neighbor’s lot . . .

It’s beautiful. Don’t mind me, I’m just drooling. But, you could send your rejects over.

I like the boldness of the ribbon effect and the contrast of the star. I think it works with a solid background of the rest of the cabinetry.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Very entertaining Lee. LOL

Your wife must be getting kind of mad. Having to lay on the floor to look at the TV. Did you set it on the dining room table.

I’t looks great except one of your diamonds is 1/3 white and 2/3 brown. But I’m sure you wife would have pointed that out and then their would have been 5 tops instead of 4.

is this going to be done by time for the picnic so we’ll have a show-n-tell from you.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Beautiful Lee, It looks great, your doing a great job on it. Hope your wife is liking it too.

-- Dan Wiggins

Hi mmh;

Thanks for the input. I like it too, since most of the cabinet is satinwood. (Which I still hate working with). It’s the devil, I tell ya. LOL

It doesn’t like me either. Whenever I look at it, it splits.

Lee

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Hey Karson;

That one piece you mentioned has a new veneer tape I’m trying out. As you can see, it’s brown. You don’t have to wet it to put it on, or remove it. I got it from Joe Woodworker.

I hope it works as claimed. Saves a lot of time on assembly, since you don’t have to assemble everything with blue tape first, then veneer tape.

I’ll let you know how it works out.

Lee

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Hey Dan;

Thank you.

She went to Atlantic City with her sister, so she hasn’t seen it. Some Valentine for me huh?

I’m slaving away in a hot shop, while she’s out having a good time. Figures. Women, can’t live with them, pass the beer nuts. LOL

Lee

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Did someone mention the devil.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Looking great, Lee! Nice contrast with the woods. Have you ever bleached wood? I wonder what bleached snakewood would look like as the one of the star woods?

Don’t take this wrong because there is nothing wrong with what you have but if you leave it as you have it the compass design appears to be floating on the table and in turn the mind thinks it could float off. Me being a chip carver and using geometric designs like this I have found that when you have a main design like yours a border is needed to make the mind think it isn’t going to float off of the table. This can be as simple as small triangles and they don’t even have to touch. Just take pieces and lay them around the perimeter to get ideas. If you want any ideas PM me and I’ll help you out.

GOOD LUCK!!

-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"

Lee,
I am glad to see I am not alone with never being satisfied with boring. It’s better that the project take a year or so to complete and be really cool then done in a weekend and be boring LOL. That’s the problem with building our own stuff there doesn’t really seem to be a deadline so at least my imagination tends to run a little wild at the cost of completeing the project.
Awesome as usual though! I love your documention of the process!!!

RJ

-- http://rjoneswoodworks.com/

Hi Grumpy;

I did. You got any ideas on taming the beast? LOL

Lee

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Lee,
Great start, beautiful work.

I was looking at your assembly table with the chart on it. Is that sealed in the table finish and where do I get one of those charts?
Thanks,
Bob

-- Bob K. East Northport, NY

Hi Roger;

Thanks for the input. I have bleached wood in the past, and it’s an interesting idea.

The border idea is a definite, since that will complicate it even more! You know how I feel about complicating things. I’m all for it.

Thank you;

Lee

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Hi Ron;

It’s not too often I get to build stuff for fun anymore, so I do have a tendency to make changes along the way.

I do have to get this out of the shop though.

Thanks;

Lee

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HI Bob;

I’ll tell you, but you have to tell me where to get one of those fireman hats.

That is a self healing mat, used mostly for sewing. So any really high class place, like Walmart, or material store, or hobby / craft store will have them. They come in several sizes.

When I stole my wife’s iron, I grabbed that too.

Also, it’s just laying on the bench.

Lee

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Lee, I like the added design on the top but after you put it on than you may decide you need to change the doors, and while your at it you might just as well add something to the front. Like mmh said, just start over and send it over to my house (Completely finished of course). Seriously I do like the top with the compass and wouldn’t change a thing.

-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

You’re so creative, Lee. Very nice color contrast and design . How big is this “small entertainment cabinet ” ?

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Thanks Lee, I will look at the local fabric store.

Are you talking about a fire helmet or a hat?

-- Bob K. East Northport, NY

Hi Dusty;

Thank you.

It’s 62” long and 18” deep x 30” tall. These are approximate, since I’ve been working on this for so long, I seem to have forgotten!

Lee

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Hi Bob42;

Those cool fire helmets.

Lee

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ha ha ! you seem quite interested in a helmet lee , sumatter the bride gettin a bit cheesed off with your fartin around not gettin this project finished ?? lol i was married before and ill share a little secret with ya . get rid of any cast iron pots and replace them with aluminum , it bounces off pretty good wont even hardly give you a fracture ! lol

It looks really nice Lee, perhaps you could go with six points and align them with the six lighter triangles in the ebony…

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Hi Verne,

Been there done that. No more dents. LOL

I just always liked those helmets, and they would shade your eyes better than a hard hat!

Lee

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Hi Damian;

I’ve been looking at that detail too.

I’m still playing around with the design. My wife doesn’t want any star at all, but I stood up to her. I told her it’s my cabinet until I bring it in the house. I’m not afraid of her.

And if she doesn’t like it, she doesn’t have to pay me.

Ha!

Lee

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Ha,Ha, you all are tooooo funny, and by the way the table top is very nice!

Robin

AKA….......Woodchic

-- Robin Renee'

Hi Robin;

I’m glad I am able to amuse people, other than just myself. I laugh at me all the time. (prevents a nervous breakdown, so far anyway).

Thank you for your comment on the top.

I did end up changing it again to a 12 point star, which I believe Dennis suggested, in another post.

Lee

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Hi Lee,

I’m sorry I missed this blog earlier, but I’m sort of glad that I didn’t see it when you started it,

because the suspense of waiting for its completion would have been unbearable.

So now I’ll have to be like the rest, & wait for its unveiling.

It’ll be nice to see the final pattern for the top.

By the way, I really like it, & I think it’s going to save your marriage.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Hi Lee . Any fresh pictures of the latest temporary design features ? I’m trying to imagine how the Great Pyramids would look today if you had been involved in the project : ) LOL Have a great weekend : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Hi Guy’s

I hate to tell anyone this, but I had to put the top on hold. I needed to get busy on the dinning room table.

So the cabinet is finished, minus the two end designs, and it is being use. My wife got tired of waiting for it.

I suspect that not finishing it was a mistake, since the veneer for the ends is laid up, and just needs to be glued on.

I’ll post the final photos once I finish it.

Lee

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Lee..I gotta ask you.. how in the world do you get all the business?? I mean c’mon..17 foot tables with chairs to boot?..I need a lesson on how to promote and get business.. LOL

-- Randall Child

Hi RBWooworker;

I’m NOT doing the chairs, no way, no how! I refuse! (unless the price is right). The designer ordered the chairs from Spain.

Most of my work comes from designers, or previous client referrals. Actually, come to think of it, all of work comes that way. I haven’t advertised for years.

I have cut back a lot on the work I’m taking. I now work alone, with occasional help when needed. I’m actually considering stopping to take on work from clients. Too much other stuff going on.

I’ll just build what I want, or what my wife wants.

If you have a good portfolio, you could take it to high end hardware store, and show them photos. I find a good approach is to show them pictures of a project, and ask what kind of handles they recommend. Almost always, one of their customers will over hear the conversation, and ask to look at the portfolio. This usually leads to them asking for cards, as well as the hardware store asking for some also. I have gotten a lot of work that way.

Lee

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Lee.. your advise and is like a renewing waters for me..thank you kindly..now..WOW.. it must be nice to be able to work that way..although I have been woodworking for sometime now.. here in California..I just cannot seem to get my business off the ground..I’m basically making stuff and taking it out to try and sell it somehow..California was hit extremely hard by this recession. I love what I do, and the praise and encouragement is always high, but finding clients has always been my achillies heel basically because I’m new to the market.. the maloof Rockers and furniture pieces I make are of the highest quality and the sanding and finish are like glass, but finding people who have the money to pay for them is another story..I know Sam sells his stuff for 38,000 for the Maple Rockers..I didn’t think 5,000 to 7,000 for mine was out of line..there has been many days when I think I should just go back to construction just to feed the family and write this deal off as bad timing, but my gut is screaming at me to stay the course..

-- Randall Child

Hi RBWoodworking,

Are you sure it’s not an ulcer doing the screaming? LOL

I’ll send you a pm, on some ideas to increase your business.

Lee

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LOL.. well..I don’t feel any pain down there.. so I’m assuming it myst be something else.. but you never know..lol

-- Randall Child