04-23-2012 11:00 PM
by PaBull |
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I found a little time between driving kids to dancing lessons, cleaning the pool, checking on the crew in the greenhouses (working overtime on Saturday), to work on the dresser. I have the feeling I started five other uncompleted projects while this dresser is waiting for attention.
But we finally got to the point that the dresser is complete, the top is on, the drawers all line up, the drawer fronts are on, the hardware is temporarily installed.
I am happy with the result.
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04-19-2012 10:28 PM
by Gabe C. |
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So at first I was only going to post this as a completed project, but I felt that in order to keep from saturating that post with too many photos, I would also post this as a blog. Plus it might inspire me to add a bit of dialogue about the process.
This is the completed project.
This is the space that I started with.
So I have a pretty small house with a fairly small kitchen, in which we have my girlfriend’s table and four chairs. The problem we were running into is that when ...
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04-19-2012 05:52 PM
by TDog |
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An heirloom tool chest…wow that’s a lot or room for tools…
I was so surprised and relieved upon finishing my medium to small sized tool chest (posted with my projects) to find that it held all of my hand tools that were once taking up so much space in the tool cabinet I made which took up to much bench space and got in the way often of working on projects. The old cabinet had tools hanging on dowels and pegs and there was dust covering all my nice hand too...
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04-18-2012 02:52 AM
by Scott R. Turner |
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I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I’ve lately found time to get back into the shop and work on a few projects. One was a Chris Schwarz-style saw bench out of SYP from the local Big Box Store.
I glued up the top from a couple of dense 1×8s I had left over from some other project, penciled in a curve and roughed the sawing notch out of the end with a coping saw, which was a bit of a chore. The top has a nice heft to it.
The legs were glued up from match...
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04-15-2012 05:44 PM
by Kevin May |
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I have just purchased roughly 2500 bf of misc lumber for $500. Included is significant qty’s of cedar, white oak, red oak, maple, pine and piles of species I will need help to identify. I’ll report back as I determine what I have. Thanks to some close friends that helped, we loaded 2 truck beds, and 2 large utility trailers.
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04-15-2012 05:13 PM
by Smitty_Cabinetshop |
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Top and bottom of the cabinet have been defined, but not the space for the jack planes and tambor door. Because there a plenty of pics of the dado process, here’s what the defined spaces look like in dry-fit mode.
And the plane partition has been shaped to match similar pieces in the inspiration piece.
The interior of door’d section then got some attention, again driven by something I saw (and posted) a couple of weeks ago. This shot of the interior of a craftsman-ma...
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04-15-2012 04:21 AM
by Smitty_Cabinetshop |
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So there’s a bit more that has to be done before finishing the overall carcase of this wall hung tool cabinet to be, and it’s all about dados and stopped dados. Quite simply, the cabinet will be divided into two distinct parts: a lower section that has a tambor door and storage for two jack planes (cambered #5 and #62), then an upper section that has a pair of doors with ‘depth’ storage inside.
So the first thing to do is create the joints for the divider as well as...
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04-14-2012 09:55 AM
by Smitty_Cabinetshop |
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The Inspiration Piece features a couple of partions with great curves that I want to replicate in my cabinet, so I pulled out paper, pencil and scissors and set about tracing one of them.
The original:
Put on paper:
I did the glue-up of the panel last week, and planed it true and smooth.
The orig is 21” and that means the pattern is not ‘to scale’...
But a photocopier came to rescue… I Shaded the profiled edge of the pattern a...
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04-10-2012 08:20 PM
by Craftsman on the lake |
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In the last video, I began making screen doors for a set of exterior french doors. Today I started to make the grils. The owner wanted vertical slats that rose at least 24” as he has a medium sized dog that wil punch the sceen out without them. I’ve decided that a dog needs to go in and out so I’ll put the grills on both sides of the doors.Cutting the slats, About a dozen per grill was a long tedious task with sanding and all. Below is a short slideshow video with narrated e...
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04-04-2012 12:08 AM
by Craftsman on the lake |
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A set of hard to get screen doors for Anderson exterior french doors. This ‘beginning’ shows the production of the rails and styles with embedded metal to brace the doors to help with any possible sagging. The unusual thing about it is that as I was going to weld up some flat bar into an L shape, I instead found some $2 framing squares which looked exactly like what I would have made. View the short video of the start of these doors. The video begins after I have cut up and st...
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