4 days ago
by Les Hastings |
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This blog is mostly for my Daughter and Son-in-Law they live just outside of Dallas. I’ll be building a changing table and crib for my new grand daughter that’s due in November. I’m just getting started even though it was ordered way back when they first found out. I’ve been working seven days a week trying to keep up with our regular clients. I told all of them that starting in September I had to stop everything and build my new grand baby’s crib. So my Daughter...
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6 days ago
by sIKE |
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Finished up the Torsion box early this afternoon, after the glue dried I laid out the mounting holes for the RAS Base and put in the threaded inserts (not allot of fun in MDF). I temporarily mounted the RAS base to the Torsion box and placed the assembly in the cabinet and the I place it in its home to get a look at if and how everything will go together. I am very pleased with how things are looking at this time. The cabinet is square, the Torsion box is square, and everything is fitting lik...
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6 days ago
by damnHippie |
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I don’t have a band saw, so I had to trust my less-than-accurate table saw, and I got to play around with my new jig saw.
I followed the steps outlined in David Marks’ European Hand Plane episode. I had to use my table saw to cut the cheeks and the two angles on the body. Then I used the jigsaw to cut the curve. Unfortunately the blade deflected during the cut, so it took a lot of filing and sanding to get it back to semi-true.
Next I need to drill the holes for the d...
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7 days ago
by sIKE |
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I started the torsion box this weekend. This is my first one and it has been a learning experience. David Marks makes it look easy, but it is not. I got my work surface straight and level and started building the grid work. I quickly learned that brads are not a good substitution for finishing nails, as they like to follow a random path. I had to push on as SWMBO would not allocate additional budget for a finishing nailer. The gird work is done and I got the first skin on this evening. I hope...
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7 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
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This weekend’s goal is getting the cabinet beside the stove to at least have a usable counter-top. We picked up a beaten up 10’x2’ glued up piece of maple countertop off of Craigslist for $50, and that’s becoming the surface for beside the stoive, and the narrow counter for under the window, with a backsplash cut from the scraps. Today I took a deep breath and cut the first pieces.
As I said, the counter-top was pretty beat up with a few gaps, so as I sanded...
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8 days ago
by Les Hastings |
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The panels for these doors will be four boards wide. They were milled at the same time the styles were using the same radius jigs. the panels will end up 3/4 thick, the parts were milled a strong 1/32 over that thickness to allow for sanding. A tray was used once again to cut the angle on all the parts on the table saw.
After the angle is cut on both both sides the parts are biscuted a to help in the gluing process. Make sure you keep them back far enough so they do not come out in the pro...
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9 days ago
by Les Hastings |
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In part three of this blog I milled out the pieces for the rails and got them glued up to width. Now after they have had plenty time in the clamps we’ll get started cleaning them up. get the glue all scrapped off and ready to sand. I make sanding blocks to the correct radius for the inside and outside of the rails and use 80 grit sticky back snad paper and stick it to the blocks. Below is picture of some finished rails with the sanding blocks that were used to clean them up. I use 80 gr...
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9 days ago
by NedB |
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Picture your shop… now picture it packed into a storage unit for 2 years…
As I’ve mentioned, I’m finally to the point where I can move stuff in, but that means I have to clear out the construction debris which I’ve been making of late. I spent an hour or so this morning after a Dr’s appt. I had the morning off from work as well, so I went out and tidied up. Not something I had done yet, I was just letting the sawdust and cutoffs pile up… until no...
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11 days ago
by sIKE |
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Started working on the case this weekend and got it done this evening. Here is the Sketchup drawing of the case:and here is the final result:and here is the leveling configuration:
I need to go back to Sketchup and redo the torsion box as I had to reduce the width of the cabinet by one inch.
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12 days ago
by teenagewoodworker |
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well here is the final post in my pull out trash box thing series. figure i’ll get right into it.
first i started by adding some 45 blocks to the place where the trash can sits. i had to notch it because that drilling would have been pretty hard without a drill press. i notched it a bit to much though. and i used brass screws. why? because they were the only ones that were short enough to not go through my surface. but to sound smart just in-case someone missed the bucket its good th...
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