2 days ago
by pintodeluxe |
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Here is a sketch of the nightstand I am working on. It features one 6” over two 8” drawers. -----Side panel components have been sanded, and the solid panels pre-stained. Now a final test fitting before gluing them up. The lumber is QSRO.-----A shallow groove in the legs will receive corbels. -----Side panels glued up. -----Front lower rails have been shaped at the router table, and finish sanded.
Next up is the back panel and web frames.
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83 days ago
by DustyMark |
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Watch this video that takes a quick tour of the furniture I’ve made for my master bedroom. Future blog entries will include the family room, kitchen, dining room, guest bedroom, and living room.
I’ve built seven pieces of furniture for my master bedroom over the years. I like furniture that is in the Shaker or the modern Shaker style and have stayed mostly with that style in solid cherry with a natural oil finish.
The bed is the oldest piece and was built in 1991.
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596 days ago
by drsongs |
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So here’s my latest project:
My wife sent me a link to this night stand for $319.00 – So it was the inspiration piece:
So with some left over wood, some rescued shelving, some old shutters, and $4 at the hardware store for a magnetic stop & a knob for the door – Here’s her new night stand (her birthday present) which she likes very much! Actually my first attempt at a drawer. You can’t see it very well in the picture but the sides are bead board. In t...
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1261 days ago
by NBeener |
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I’ve always heard that—if, for example, you’re going to quit smoking—it helps to tell everybody you know that you’re going to quit, and on what date you’re going to quit.
It helps get you committed (something that’s been talked about, in my case, for years!).
So … here I go.
My next ww project is a Shaker Style night stand.
Actually, it’s two: his and hers. I’m going to build mine first, so I can butcher IT, and then tra...
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1575 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
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Here’s a few pics and a link to the finished project page.
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1575 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
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Even though I clamped and cauled the top and shelf during the glue up there was still a slight offset between the panels, maybe around a 64th or so, maybe a little less. I machine planed the panels before the glue up so the panels were pretty flat and reasonably smooth.
I like the tactile quality of a planed surface more so than a sanded surface so the offset and the desired for a planed finish combined to lead me to hand plane the finished top.
Hand planing the top turned out to be a ...
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1575 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
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After milling up the pieces and parts it was time to begin cutting to size and fitting up. The construction is all mortise and tenon and sliding panel. At this point the pieces are still marked with the position identifier and the orientation. I use kids sidewalk chalk to mark the pieces. Sidewalk chalk comes in different colors to mark light or dark wood, it’s dirt cheap, large sticks so it’s easy to find and handle, and it wipes off clean with a little elbow grease and a rag....
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1652 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
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Making some progress, better be, xmas is coming soon. Got the raw lumber milled and cut to size.Here’s the raw lumber.
Pieces milled and cut to size.
Shelf glue up.
Top glue up.
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1675 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
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Still working on redrawing the plans and I came across an anomaly. The back and sides are solid wood panels. The side panels fit tight edge to edge. The back panels have a 3/16 gap between the panels and the posts. I could believe the gap is for wood movement, sounds reasonable, but then why not in the sides. Both the back and the sides are similar grain orientation and both will be subject to movement. I suspect the real answer is that whoever drew up the original plans either wanted t...
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1678 days ago
by coloradoclimber |
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I’m building a beside table / nightstand for my son. I found a set of plans I liked on the net, purchased from PlansNow originally published in Workbench Magazine.
Even though I have the plans I’m still drawing it up in sketchup.
I like to dry run in sketchup. I find it really makes my shop time go faster and I create fewer errors if I’ve walked through the entire cutting and assembly sequence in sketchup before committing.
If I start with a square block in sk...
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