550 days ago
by Byron |
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So heres the finished thing. You can see it open in the pictures on the bottom. Better pictures soon to come.
The drawers are an important part of my design because of my mother. When I was younger she taught my older brother and myself how to play canasta, and always had two nice decks of cards to play, unfortunately we were not the cleanest while playing and the cards almost always got ruined. Eventually she started to hide the cards. It came to the point where she would burry the c...
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433 days ago
by Smitty_Cabinetshop |
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At one point in another forum post here on LJs, I offered a tool cabinet would be worked using the raw materials salvaged from this old Hoosier cabinet topper.
Including the beat up piece of tambour door.
Some fine grit ROS work on the tambouR got it to look presentable; here it is sitting on top of the now-disassembled topper.
Not sure where this is headed, evidenced by the foot-dragging on the project so far. But, I did build a headboard in the meantime, so it’...
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1304 days ago
by captkerk |
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It’s finally assembled.
I started today by fitting the curved braces that connect the center bracket to the two end brackets. After quite a few trips to the miter saw to shave off “just a hair,” I finally had snug butt joints and evened-up braces. The problem was that the 3/4” braces were butting up against the 3/4” bracket-backer boards which already had a 1/8” round-over on them. This wouldn’t do.
The fix was to run the curved braces throug...
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