Summer happenings at LumberJocks.com http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:27:37 GMT Trying to beat the heat on jobsites Working Stages http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/29680 Our current project brings us back to a couple of projects that are very common and high requests as of late.
We are building a custom bench seat for around a dining area and a custom fit Wet Bar nook in the kitchen.

These projects involve mortise and tennon joinery along with our Standard flat paneled look on the running lengths.
The bench seat will be stained and clear coated and the base of unit our standard white.

The finish on the Wet Bar is to be a Black granite top and our standard white with a amber glaze.
The challenges thus far on the project is the angled set back feature on the bench seat and, as always those lovely wine bottle cubbies.

Early Stages of the Bench Seat

Carcass and frames of the Wine Cabinet. Laying on the side, the End will be paneled.

Fitting the bench together.

Drilling Pocket Screws on the cabinet carcasses.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:27:37 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/29680 rando1 rando1 Wet Bar #4: Final Shots http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/29172 As we come to the end of another project, It is so great to see how everything pulls together. The efforts of our team have been greatly appreciated and our homeowners are very happy with the results. As always the pictures find it hard to capture, but it gives a good idea how it looks.
Thanks for stopping and looking.

]]> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:13:58 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/29172 rando1 rando1 Wet Bar #3: Ready for Finish http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/28881 Our Wet Bar is getting it’s final sanding and prep for the finish stages.
The units will be in the finishing stages the next few days and we look forward for this unit to be finding its new home soon! Thanks for visiting and checking in!


The doors both glass and the panels came together and sanded up great! The Walnut splines added character to the doors.

The one pull out on the unit will be for storage of bottles

]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:15:55 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/28881 rando1 rando1 Wet Bar #2: Next steps http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/28794 As we continue to move ahead this week on this project the NEXT Steps are fun! the basic boxes and face frames are on and in place, now on to the the doors.
As described earlier, we will be building a hardwood cherry frame door at aprox 2 1/2” wide. The outside band will have a bead detail and on each corner will be a walnut spline. all the corners will be mitered and biscuit together with a #0. The top doors of will have quarter inch clear glass.
Goal is to have this project in the finishing booth by mid to late in the week.
Thanks for checking in.

These are how the boxes and face frames are coming together!

]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:56:04 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/28794 rando1 rando1 Wet Bar #1: Starting stages http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/28710 Currently we are beginning work on a custom Cherry Wet bar for a Frog/ recreation room in a home.
The project will be going together with Cherry Plywood and Cherry hardwood frames. The upper cabinets will have clear glass doors and the door construction will be a mitered out side beaded edge with a walnut spline and biscut together.
The finish to be a rich brown ebony with a conversion Varnish finish.
Look for updates on the project.

The start process of putting Boxes together

Laying out and selecting Cherry hardwood for the face frames. Always great to sift through our product and think ahead to what we are trying to create.

Assembly of more of the cabinet boxes.

]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:44:32 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/28710 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #8: Final shots http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/26450 A couple of weeks ago we finished our project with this customer and they are enjoying their kitchen up fit and new furniture.
We made a privacy false back on the entertainment unit for the cords to be hidden and added a shelf in the other glass door.
The kitchen was finished off with the cabinets being closed in on the top and adding new end skins and the rounded shelves to finish the look off by sink. We also milled our own crown profile out of maple.
We enjoyed this project and are anxious for the next one.

]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:51:31 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/26450 rando1 rando1 Wardrobe/ entertianment/ kitchen #2: Update 2 More progress http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/26072 Since our last posting we have been busy working the machinery and keeping everyone hopping around to different projects.
This project has now shifted to the home owner site and we have been working on installing the bookcase units and the entertainment unit.
Much time was spent today getting the accessories in and all the wires back behind the unit and getting the TV hung. Everything even worked once all hooked up!
Still have some touch up and hang doors and clean up on these, but they turned out very nice for the location designed for them. Thanks for visiting.

]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:46:10 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/26072 rando1 rando1 Wardrobe/ entertianment/ kitchen #1: Wardrobe units http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/25830 Our current project brings us to a home in which has requested a custom designed set of Wardrobe units for their bedroom, a pair of matching bookcases and entertainment center for their den. We will also be fabricating their kitchen cabinets and making some pull-out shelving units for the kitchen cabinets.

All of the furniture pieces for this project a made up of poplar facing and MDF boxes that will be coated white base lacquer and Clear coat Lacquer for the finish.

These are some of the phases of the wardrobe units being built and then putting in place. Still have to get our brushed nickel style hardware on the units. More to come with the rest of the project….Thanks for looking.

]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:23:46 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/25830 rando1 rando1 McKoy Residence #2: Continued progress! http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/22245 There has been much wood installed since I last told you about the current project.
Hence the laps in updating.
I decided to take a few moments and get some pics out there and let you see our progress.
This home has had ship lap siding installed through the whole first floor. We also have installed some beautiful Hondorean pine doors. The doors were made in Hondoras and shipped here. They turned out beautiful and will have a clear coat on them.
We also discovered in trimming the house that there were many challenges with the framing of the house of which meant each pc of casing and window trim was special fabricated.

Things are really coming together and turning out beautiful. Many of our custom cabinets and built-ins will be going in this week and we have already installed the kitchen cabinets and closet cabinets made by a cabinet maker in Ohio.

Our shop has been busy with building cabinets and furniture for this project and our on site team is working hard to get us wrapped up in the next couple weeks. ..... we Have two more houses ready to go and are thankful for the work we have. Look forward to sharing the finished pictures with you soon.

]]> Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:47:12 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/22245 rando1 rando1 McKoy Residence #1: Getting Started http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/21350 Well it has been some time since I have had the opportunity to sit down and write down all we have been doing.
At the begininning of the year we began a project for a home owner that includes all of the interior trim for their home and many of the built-in / free standing and custom furniture components.

Needless to say the shop and the job site have cried out for attention now. We are coming along and have begun with some of the trim work with Wains Cot and shiplap siding going through most of the home, we have much trim to get installed.

We are also working on several built-in units and cabinets. We have a neat design of a laundry/mud room we are building and look forward to sharing more as the project goes on. For now some intro photos. Don’t know how often we will get to update, but hope you enjoy the process. Thanks for checking out.

]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:15:50 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/21350 rando1 rando1 Re-claimed Trim mold furniture #2: Finished mirrors http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/19402 After careful cleaning and sealing with lacquer the finished products ended up very classy looking.

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:18:06 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/19402 rando1 rando1 Re-claimed Trim mold furniture #1: Cut pieces and ideas http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/19214 It has been a while since we have had chance to post anything.

We have been working on a lot of marketing, preparing some accessories for a show we are going to next week and recruiting more work.

I recently came across some old re-claimed trim molding from an architectrual antiques warehouse. Boy did I have fun searching and looking through the rooms and rooms of old woodworking and furniture!

I gathered some pieces form an old home from downtown Charleston and thought I would put them together in some picture frames or mirror frames.

Spent some time fabricating and shaping the pieces into a couple of pieces I hope to sell soon. Will have the finished products up soon.

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:51:22 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/19214 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #7: finish/ delivery/ installation http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/18053 The past few days have been wonderful for finishing! Not as humid right now, thank goodness!

In the process of the finish we first did a once over with sand up to 220, filled nail holes and then applied general finishes whitewash stain. Wiping off the excess allowed a lite look and a little grain to show. After this dried I went over the unit with 320 to create “rough or worn areas on edges and around details.
Next, we wiped minwax puritan pine with toner added…...Yeah, what a cool look to the unit! The stain picked up areas of the grain, areas we sanded with 320, and detailed profiles.

Finally, we sprayed several coats of waterborne Laq, with sanding in between. Some buffing and little waxing upon delivery and we will have completion.

Today, we will be loading the units and packing the tool trailer and heading out for delivery. There will be some assemble and fabrication needed on site with the TV unit and all, but we have some excited homeowners….and we are too.

lower

upper

book

]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:32:55 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/18053 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #6: final assembly stages http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17901 Well, the final assembly stages are coming together.
We have spent quite a bit of time cutting and fitting together the pieces for the upper and lower units of the entertainment center.
quite a bit of time was spent setting up the router with the bead detail for the face frames of the units. A jig was built to work around the bit set that I came across at the IWF show.

Once the jig was built and set up the actual cutting the frames went very quickly. some final assembly and glue up and a very clean sharp look to our units.

Now the upper and the lower units are built and mostly put together and today time was spent making and assembling the endcap decor both the lower and upper units of the entertainment pieces.

Next is the tedious sanding and filling nail holes and preparing all the units for stain, finish and toner effects. Lots of prep work to get to the spraying!
This update will be the last until the finished products. We will provide finished pictures here at the shop as well as the install and final look.
Thanks for following on this project and support and encouragement.

jig

frame

frame2

lower

ferame

]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:43:51 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17901 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #5: Almost ready for finish on bookcase http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17772 This week has been spent getting the remainder of the lower bookcase units put together and ready for finishes.
We have spent some time making our molding for the top band and trimming out the rest of the unit. The final assembly will get finished in the next day or so, but we have had some good progress.

We also have made good progress on the lower unit of the entertainment center. The lower carcasses are now assembled and we have made up our beaded face frame. the next step is getting the faced frame mitered and assembled so that we can get the top ready to put on and start on the upper units.

THIS MOLDING WAS MADE ON THE TABLE SAW AND WITH THE ROUTER TABLE WITH A V-BIT

trim


THERE WAS SOME TIME SPENT SANDING OUT THE SAW MARKS AND MAKING IT LOOK PRETTY!

sand

THEN WE INSTALLED AROUND THE TOP UNIT AS A FINISHING CAP

install

BASE CAP WAS INSTALLED ON THE BOX ENDS TO MAKE THEM POP

base cap

ALMOST READY FOR FINISH!

ready


THIS IS THE BEADED FACE FRAME FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT UNIT

bead

FITTING ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER AROUND THE BASE CARCASSES. READY TO BE MITERED.

fitting

BASE CARCASSES ON ENTERTAINMENT UNIT READY FOR MITERING AND FITTING TOGETHER.

fitting

The rest of the week will be spent working on the cutting and fitting together of the top of the entertainment unit and making moldings for it and then getting the units assembled together. There is also two drawers for DVDS and CDs going in the lower unit of the entertainment center. Much more to come!

]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:05:32 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17772 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #4: Bookcase assembly http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17696 The later part of the week brought us to the point of pulling together all the pieces and assembling the base bookcase units.
All the cutting and fitting together and we have a really cool unit coming together.

The face frame got a detailed edge and the top of the unit, we will try to get a better picture on the next update.

We did not get too much more done the end of the week, because we took Thursday and Friday and went to Atlanta for the IWF conference. Wow the show had lots of great resources, ideas and tools to look at and demo and bring back to the shop:)

This week will bring getting the base bookcases wrapped up and ready for finish and get a good start on the entertainment unit. We did get a good start on cutting box material for the entertainment unit and most of it is ready for assembly.

end cap

end cap2

fitting

ready for assembly

]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:31:07 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17696 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #3: lower cabinet assembly http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17564 Along the with the project we have discovered some design tweaking to make the project fit together better.
Things on paper always look good, but it always seems to have tweaking points during the process.

We spent some time cutting out the boxes for the lower bookcases. Taking the time now to think through the fitting together process will help save steps further steps and extra joints in the latter assembly.
Spent the time now to drill in the shelf holes in and we ended up assembling all the units together now with daddos and pocket screwing.

We also got started on the two end cap boxes and have glued and screwed them up and will be ready for face framing next.
We are now working on the face framing and cutting the back for the bookcase units.
This coming week we hope to get the unit put together, put white wash stain on everything, make our decroative trim for the top of the unit and cut and prepare all the shelf units, which will have support cleats on the the fronts for extra support.

We got all the pieces toghther and drilled our shelf holes and began assembly

shelf

Units began going together one by one

step 1

Next, we glued and screw individual units togther and let the glue set

strp 2

Finally, we added the top, which is to be stained and finished, glued, clamed and is now ready for face frame

all glue

]]> Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:55:45 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17564 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #2: Getting Started http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17515 A pile of lumber….Gathering materials, working out cut lists and design…..
Man, why can’t we just fire up the equipment and get going.

Well, to begin with, there are other projects that are trying to get done and can’t get going in shop til all the materials get delivered.

Be it as it may, we were able to begin cutting on the carcases of the lower bookcases this afternoon.
It is so rewarding to look at a pile of lumber and see what kind of shape and display it transforms too.

We basically started on cutting sheet material and some dado work for the bases. Hope to get a good bit of the boxes together tomorrow and start working on the decorative end caps.

So glad to see something happening! More to come.
cut

fit

Dados

]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:59:42 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17515 rando1 rando1 Bookcase and Wall entertainment unit #1: New Design http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17472 We are gearing up for another cabinet project in a new home with some very nice clients.
They have requested some built-in bookcases below their Kitchen Knee wall on the Great room side. This unit will be aprox. 11’ in length and aprox 38” in height with some decorative end caps.

bookcase

The second unit is a wall unit for Entertainment and bookcases. This unit will stretch the wall of the great room and stand a proud 8’ tall and around 12’ in length. It will house the TV system and much storage for books and other household props.
The unit will have paneled decor on the ends and a stained counter ledge to match their existing colors.

wall unit

The rest of this week will entail working on finalizing the design, coming up with our cut lists and gather and purchasing materials.
So excited to be getting back in the shop again and making our homeowners their special design come true.

]]> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:03:38 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17472 rando1 rando1 Entry Bench and Mirror #4: finally done http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17283 We made it and delivered the entry furniture this week.
After a sprayed coat of sanding sealer and three coats of water based semi-gloss laquer finish, it turned out nice. We look forward to the next project.

!http://http://i751.photobucket.com/albums/xx159/randon1/IMG_3669-1-1.jpg(finished)!:http://http://i751.photobucket.com/albums/xx159/randon1/IMG_3669-1-1.jpg

Sorry the picture did not turn out real well, not a lot of room.

]]> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:09:58 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/rando1/blog/17283 rando1 rando1