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“LOL”
They all tell me that, but this guy is over the edge!
We started this project over a year ago with hopes it would be completed by last spring and at the rate things are going we’ll be lucky if we make this spring! I’m not bitching, it’s work, but it’s time to move on!
We spent the first three months working on just the main level (down stairs is bigger)
Everything is made out of quarter sawn white oak with a lacquer and glaze finish.
(Why glaze over expensive wood?) I don’t know!
The manufacturing of the cabinetry, arches, mantel and all the milling of all the moldings was our first priority.
It’s nice to have all these items in place before we start the paneling.
The paneling was put together using a kreg jig. (I love this tool!)
It pulls all the joints super tight and you can handle the panels immediately. What more can you ask for!
For more on this job you can visit my other site under current projects. http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com/
-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com
































33 comments so far
CharlieM1958
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posted 721 days ago
Beautiful work!
Is this a house? Looks more like the public library.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
mot
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posted 721 days ago
It looks great. I’m a fan of the Kreg jig as well. I know David comes on and searches every morning for Kreg…otherwise he has to tap his left foot 6 times before he can take a shower. Thanks for posting this…it’s really very nice.
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
Thos. Angle
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posted 721 days ago
I don’t tap my foot but I’m a Kreg fan as well and not just the pocket hole parts. This is a great project. Really impressive. I hope you get it done by spring.
-- Thos. Angle
Douglas Bordner
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posted 721 days ago
Pretty spiffy. Wonder what this would look like if your customer had wanted to go full hog?
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
Peter O
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posted 721 days ago
Wow, beautiful! Very impressive!
It’s amazing how many applications there are for pocket screws! It looks like you are using regular countersink phillips screws in the pocket holes. Does that work okay for you?
I could sure use a client or two with simple projects like this!
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Mark Mazzo
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posted 721 days ago
Bryan,
I’m not seeing anything simple in that work. Great job! Terrific application of pocket screws as well.
-- Mark, Webster New York, Visit my website at http://thecraftsmanspath.com
schwingding
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posted 721 days ago
Holy canoli! THAT is a project. Amazing amount of work involved there, looks phenomenal. I like the Kreg, too, but only use it on casual projects. Not that there is anything wrong with it (there is not) but some of my work demands traditional joinery. I used the pocket hole method recently to build a dozen and a half frames for sound absorption panels in my home theater – it reduced the time demands by probably 70%.
This project of yours – wow.
-- Just another woodworker
gene
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posted 721 days ago
Very beautiful, True craftsmanship. I’d like to see it, after the furniture goes in. Are you building that also?
God bless
-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia
toyguy
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posted 721 days ago
Man that is some beautiful work….. That is a house that anyone would be proud to live in….or even just walk around in….. Beautiful !!
-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/
Dadoo
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posted 721 days ago
Very impressive!
-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!
MsDebbieP
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posted 721 days ago
amazing, jaw-dropping gorgeous.
Yes, I can see the “simple” in it.. ah… somewhere.. I know it’s there…
Stunning.
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
angelis
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posted 721 days ago
WOW!! It looks like an old Spanish Home of some wealthy count. Great job and very inspiring.
Brad_Nailor
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posted 721 days ago
Love it…. Nothing simple or low cost about that! I want to do my office over with panels on the walls.
Tom you better tell David to watch out with the foot tapping…that kinda thing could get you into trouble in a rest stop mens room.
-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"
jockmike2
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posted 720 days ago
Time cosuming but beautiful. mike
-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com
Popintraining
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posted 720 days ago
I’ve only been using a kreg jig for about three years now and life is so much easier with it, even when we run out of the kreg screws and have to use regular ones. (They work okay)
We use it for everything we can. Time is usually of the essence with most of our projects and the kreg jig gives us that little extra, so we’re not always waiting on glue to dry before we can go onto the next step.
The butt joints in this picture are all held together by pocket screws
-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com
Popintraining
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posted 720 days ago
Thank goodness, he didn’t want to go full hog! I’d never get of there, and this guy is to cheap for me build his furniture!
-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com
dennis mitchell
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posted 720 days ago
Keeping the price down seems to usually come out of my pocket…go figure. Good looking job.
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JasonH
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posted 720 days ago
Wowsers! That’s some impressive work!!
-- Living on the square...
Don Mitchell
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posted 720 days ago
Beautiful job and I’m with ya on the glaze thing! I hate using the stuff!
scottb
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posted 720 days ago
The glazing makes it look like it’s been there for years (rather than year, like you’ve been). Fabulous work. If that’s really simple to the homeowner (shaker must be, like, way boring), what would detailed and intricate look like?
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
DrSawdust
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posted 720 days ago
That is amazing work. Way to go!!!
-- Making sawdust is what I do best
Chip
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posted 720 days ago
Beautiful.
-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.
miles125
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posted 720 days ago
Very nice job.
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
DAN
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posted 720 days ago
looks like a palace ! great work.
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
Bradford
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posted 720 days ago
WOW!! pics like this are why I woodwork. Then choice of finish gives the room an old european look. Like it’s been used for 150 years. Nice, nice, nice.
-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.
Grumpy
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posted 718 days ago
Very nice indeed Pop. Pocket hole screws do a great job, very simple and effective.
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python
shaun
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posted 718 days ago
Good lord! Now that’s quite the project there isn’t it? Gorgeous work Pop.
-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!
RobG
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posted 717 days ago
Just when you think people don’t do work like that anymore there it is. Something like that will be there to tell your tale long after you and I are gone. Great work!!
-- Woodworking is Life. Anything before or after is just waiting.--S. McQueen sort of
Karson
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posted 717 days ago
Great job. Nice training materials.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
Zuki
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posted 717 days ago
Holy Cow !!!
-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them
TreeBones
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posted 715 days ago
“This Guy” must of been pulling your leg. Great looking work. The kreg jig is one of my favorite tools also.
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Roger Strautman
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posted 673 days ago
This is only my opinion but with all those panel openings and nothing in them they look incomplete. It looks like the room is going Gothic and if so those panels need carved linens in them.
-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"
rikkor
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posted 673 days ago
Impressive amount of work in this project. All well done, I might add.