1495 days ago
by David |
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Repairing an Old Drawer with Animal Hide Glue
Last night I was startled awake from a woodworking daydream by a loud crashing sound from our home office. The side and bottom fell out of drawer of our antique oak desk when Beth was trying to get a box of staples from the rear of the long drawer. Sounds like a repair brewing! Well this desk is an older “antique” oak English library desk. Beth ...
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1495 days ago
by Gene47 |
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Well today was kind of slow but I did accomplish a few things just not in the shop.
My new HVLP spray gun arrived this morning, and I have to say that those guys from GleemPaint are on the ball.Ordered the gun Friday and arrived on Monday with standard shipping now that is the way to do business.
I had decided to finish this bed with lacquer and it was recommended by a fellow LJ member that a good product for a rookie such as myself would be a pre-cat lacquer that is fast drying and wou...
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1496 days ago
by Gene47 |
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I got my moldings yesterday and started cutting it to size today.
I went with a rather inexpensive precut molding in order to keep the cost down a little. I considered using Sepele but the molding would have cost more than the bed.
So here I am cutting my moldings into picture frames to put on the face panels.
Then I put them out to make sure everything looked right.
Once I was satisfied with everything I put a coat of stain on before I attached them to the face frame. Sin...
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1497 days ago
by Gene47 |
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Thursday I spent most of the morning researching for a spray gun then did some sanding and got what I have done so far ready to assemble.
Friday I got some small things finished up getting ready to make the final push to complete the outer case for the bed.
Before going out to the shop I confirmed my order for a new HVLP spray gun and it should be here by the first of the week.
I then attached the frame structure to the face panels using construction adhesive and screws.
Then ...
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1497 days ago
by Gene47 |
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Had an enjoyable day but again what day is not enjoyable when you get to spend it making sawdust?
The first thing I did today is finish out my location jig so that for all future beds I will be able to align the pieces in the jig mark all the locations and do a quick check with the ruler and drill and cut.
The first pic shows the jig with all of the holes and locations finished and properly marked. The second one shows the jig in position to lay out the opening for the Left Panel Lockin...
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1497 days ago
by Gene47 |
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Last time I got a mite confused on laying out the hardware on the side rails and came very close to making a boo boo. Before I got too far I went back to the DVD and watched a segment that cleared things up.
You put the left rail on the right and the right rail on the left with the top facing away from you. It is very important that the hardware gets mounted correctly in relation to a 1” dia hole that is bored thru each side rail.
Once I got all that figured out I and done I tran...
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1498 days ago
by rosewood |
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Hai Everyone,Cameron,thanks for posting your honest opinion, on my how to project,I believe that God made the wood with some kind of many reason, pls look around our house,office or somewhere else, many our belongings made from wood,do you think its been there before we are ? or its falling from the moon, 1000% from harvesting ofcause.And in my country not all people or companies are able to do harvest or just cut them down even if the trees are belong to us and growing behind our backyard, m...
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1498 days ago
by Gene47 |
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I spent a couple of hours going over a suggestion that maybe I should make the bed outer case deeper so I can make the cabinets deeper so I got out the cutlist program and put in the new numbers and no matter what I came up with I was at least one sheet of plywood short.
We choose Mahogany for this project and at $73.00 a sheet along with a 100 mile round trip to get it we just went back to the original plans.
So off I went and using my new Gorilla Gripper carried the 1st sheet over to ...
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1498 days ago
by Gene47 |
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I already had the pieces for the inner frame ripped and cut to length so I thought I would get the inner frame assembled today.
The first thing I did was set up a stop system so I could keep the pieces aligned from end to end. Then since I am pretty sure I will be building at least 2 maybe 3 more of these I made a story stick for the hole locations that hold the cross frame members in a “L” shape.
Then it was a matter of putting one piece between the stops laying dow...
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1498 days ago
by Gene47 |
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After several months of planning and measuring as well as saving up the bucks to do this thing I started on my Murphy Bed with side Cabinets for one of our spare bedrooms. Since I live in a double wide mfg home this makes the most sense to free up the space in a modest 11×12 foot bedroom.
I decided to use the hardware system from http://www.wallbed.com
You can purchase this hardware kit from several different sources anywhere from $279 to $299. I found that the ones that were selli...
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