72 days ago
by dustyal |
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To Flock or not to Flock that is the question:Whether ‘tis nobler of project to sufferThe slings and arrows of dedicated LJ’ers,Or to take arms against the sea of boxes,With the mitering of corners and maple keys;Ay, there be thy rub; perhaps ‘tis be the tung oil?
Sorry for the poetic abuse. I won’t let it happen again.
Mirror, Mirror in the lidWho be the fairest LJ’er of the Id?‘Tis not be that crusty DustyAl;Surely ‘tis be that crafty Karson fella,Exotic lumber and all.
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126 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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The finish was sprayed yesterday. It was a combination of a dye stain, wiping stain, and a protective coat. The dye stain was srayed on only. Since it was thinned with about 50 parts to one thinner, it dried in about 10 seconds. That gave me the very dark tone I was after. Some production lines use this process only for their color, but I feel it doesn’t give the piece enough depth. I still use a wiping stain, in this case Dark Walnut, to “pop” the grain.
The finish...
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135 days ago
by Chris Davis |
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This project is something a little different. It is a bedroom wall unit, not a murphy wall bed, but one with piers, headboard, mirrors and a light bar. The kind where the bed just sits in front of it. The twist on this one is I will be adding a canopy to it. This will be a canopy like the old waterbed style, with the mirrors in the top. I’ve built both the Accent style wall unit and the canopy in the past, but have never combined the two.
I’ll start with a style that I built before an...
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232 days ago
by PG_Zac |
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Now for the interesting part of the story
I had to work through several problems, mostly caused by my inexperience, ignorance or optimism. The first was that I ordered the wrong size mirror. It looked fine in the drawings, but when I trimmed the arms to fit each other, I had to cut more off the mitred ends than planned for aesthetic reasons. The mirror supplier had already cut the mirror but not yet delivered, so I called then with the new dimensions. I had to pay extra for the new cuts an...
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486 days ago
by Greg Wurst |
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Well, I’ve finished the mirror but not without my usual array of screw-ups. Let’s get started, shall we?
I only really have one more detail piece to cut, and that is the arch. I go ahead and print a scale model of the arch in Sketchup and draw it on the board. I run it through the bandsaw and clean-up the arch with the drum sander.
Since I need two 3/8” thick arches, I figure I’ll cut the piece in twain with the bandsaw using the currently attached 1/4” ...
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508 days ago
by Greg Wurst |
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Several years ago at a wood carving show up in Dayton my wife bought a large piece of walnut measuring 11 3/8” x 72”. It’s been sitting in the basement ever since waiting for a project to utilize it. While I’m waiting for a day-off to finish my garden bench, I finally found a use for that board. We picked-up a large mirror at Ikea for $8 measuring 47 1/4” x 15 3/4”. So, I designed a hall mirror with that board in mind:
The entire mirror f...
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