| Blog series by depictureboy | updated 329 days ago | 7 parts | 1420 reads | 13 comments total |
Part 1: In the beginning
There was the idea…and the idea was good. <<sigh>> Well we have 3 weeks to Christmas…3 weekends. Well I have the wood together thanks to my buddy who does primitive furniture. Karson helped me plane most of it down to thickness, and the rest I got done at a local woodworkers shop. I have it marked out roughly and now am feeling the angst of not having all the equipment I would really like to have. Tomorrow I gotta go to HD and get some 1/4 and 3/4 plywood and mdf. Th...
Part 2: When your straight edge isn't straight, it throws everything out of alignment.
Boy what a night. I was going along ripping my boards quite nicely…I know most of my boards aren’t straight straight so right now I am just rough ripping…anyway I have a jig for cutting down panels…you know the one a piece of plywood with a stop that you run your circ saw down…Well I had a board that was bowed just a bit so i went and ripped the edge with my jig…put it on my concrete floor and “WHAT THE HE double hockey sticks” the bow was worse...
Part 3: Pins or Standards...its all clear in the end....
Ok, I have been agonizing over this for a bit now…Shelf pins or just use a standard….I dont have the equipment to ensure good accuracy(drill press or skill hehe) so I was thinking I would just break down and route a dado and put in shelf standards…not as classy, but workable…what do you all think?
Part 4: All the world is a diamond, and around ye the sound of breaking glass....
400 dollars is my first quote for glass cutting….Thats 10 bucks a square foot. Granted its a franchise (Mr. Go-Glass), but still there isnt much around here other than autoglass people. OUCH! Well a new quote is in from a local Screen and Glass shop…The prices are a little bit easier to swallow. Mirror is 63.70Door 30.55sides 15.50 each shelves – 60 each for 3/8ths or 32 each for 1/4.
Part 5: Building it up....
Well, I am making some modifications to the original crown moulding profile for the case. I dont have all the bits, and my wood is all thicknessed to 3/4 and I dont have the time(only 5 more days till XMAS!!!!) to get it done. So I am modifying it to use what I have. This is what I am looking at doing. Ill try and post some actual photos today later too.
Part 6: Holding my breath, I apply the stain.....
Talk about stressful..this is the biggest thing I have ever finished and its for my wife, so it has to be perfect…hehe here is a before… This is a picture of the assembled top molding Here are several case pictures after staining. Like I said, I was nervous about this because it is the biggest thing I have done so far. I used bartley’s gel stain in the shade of Honey. I still have to put the top coat on which I am making my own wip...
Part 7: Getting it finished
Well the finishing is coming along nicely, I forgot I needed to do the door. So the case has 3 coats and now the back of the door has 1. Got my side of the garage cleaned up so that I can move the door over to my side and the SO can get her car in the garage again. I still have to order the glass and mirror. Gonna give lowe’s custom order a try as well as a place in dagsboro near Bodies…we’ll see how it goes.
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