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Here are the pictures of the finished dragon puzzle and the box. I used two coats of warm cherry stain, and two coats of gloss poly. I put a 8" brass continuous hinge on the back, and a brass knob on the front.
I still have to find some black foam for the inside. I want to cut it to fit the puzzle, so the puzzle wont hit the sides and snap off a corner if it is carried around.
Then, itll be ready for Andrew for this Christmas!!!
It was a mellow one this year .... An unseasonably warm day and a small but warm gathering of just us, the boys, one nephew and all the girl friends. Nice .... We were thankful for lots and lots and lots of stuff, but mostly that my sister, who has been in a mysterious coma like situation in a Boston hospital since Sunday, was able to wish her husband a Happy Thnaksgiving ... virtually her first words in four days ... phew ! When youve got your health, appreciate every moment ... It can all go so wrong so quickly .... carpe diem !
I saw some interesting woodworking in the last couple of days. Some by David Rasmussen, who worked with us for four years and has been out on his own now for about four years. When David left, he went off to build handicap accessible treehouses with a national group called Forever Young Treehouses. After spending a few years traveling and working with them, he settled in Carbondale, Colorado. He just sent me a link to his recently launched website and I thought Id share it. Hes done some interesting furniture and sculpture work recently, and the treehouses hes worked on are definitely worth a look as an inspiration to reach a little higher ... Check out the treehouses here ...
I also saw some other interesting work by recent graduates of Brown University. Bilt Furniture is a four person design collaborative, some of whom I met at the Woodstock show. They are working with Charles Shackleton on a project at Brown, doing the recycled wood, contemporary furniture for the project, and were visiting with him and taking in the furniture show at Woodstock this past weekend. I really enjoyed talking with them. Their enthusiasm for their work was infectious and inspirational. I wish them the best of luck ...
"Wet Panel Flat File"
This little box will hold up to a 14" X 18" wet panel or stretch canvas (less than 1" thick) and any size smaller than 14" X 18". Two 8" X 10" panels will fit on one of the 9 pull out shelves. Unlike the suitcase style panel carriers the wet panels are laying on the shelves, and are not held into a groove or held in place with clips or adapters. This is not designed to take on a plane; it is designed to put in the car or camper and hold multiple panels or canvases of varying sizes completely protected.
As I mentioned in a previous post, were working on a largish audio/tv cabinet for the This Old House project. It is deceptively simple in appearance with a few little devils in the details, folding and sliding recessed doors being just one of them ...
As on any big project, after the drawings, we mapped out full size layout sticks. These are similar to a carpenters story pole, on which clapboard courses are laid out full size. By transcribing measurements from the drawings full size onto sticks of wood, we can later check our progress against something that is true to life. We put one view per face (front,side,plan), including other details like televisions and audio equipment, that are important to the function of the piece. If were building something 10, 12 or even 14 long, we will make the long layout view on masking tape and tape it right to the floor where were going to be working on the piece. Often this is a discovery process of potential flaws in the drawings and a good choice to check that things will fit in the spaces in the end ... Different from the drawings, which I usually do, everyone gets to participate in making these sticks and its a good choice to introduce everyone working on it to the complications and subtleties of the finished concept.
Getting under choice ... The ply parts and counter mockup are set. The jog in the back of the top cabinet allows the doors to recess into the cabinet, moves the tv forward toward the viewer and creates a chimney to allow heat from the lower area where the components to escape from the cabinet. A final bonus of the stepped out back is that it gives a virtually structureless upper cabinet some rigidity other than the plywood of the back. The back on the lower cabinet is temporarily luan. Click the photos to enlarge them ...
There are a lot of parts to this one ... above, stiles and rails for the doors and end panels
Were veneering the panels of the doors for stability and consistency. We got our extra wide curly maple veneers from Certainly Wood, one of our two primary wood suppliers. Here, Trevor and Jim are cutting the veneers on the cnc, a job we usually hate to do manually ... There are 16 door and 8 end panel veneers. We made this jig to position the veneer pieces on the cnc and cut them all the same size. Trevor also cut the mdf panels on which Will glued the veneers using the same file so everything is the same size and all parts are exactly square. This was a gold star process that allowed what would have been a time consuming veneering project to move along swiftly.
The finished door panels
The doors and end frames ready for final fit up
The cornice pieces are ready to install and the face frames are on
The doors are glued up and trimmed, ready to be hung on Monday ...
The sides of the cabinets are furred out to receive the side panels which will be mitered to the face frames .... all for now ... were off til Monday for a mini vacation time
The following method works fairly well. Cut the piece to be coped on a 45...
Then, using a coping saw, cut along the face line of the 45, as shown below...
Using this method should give you a fairly close, if not exact, coped surface to join the inside corners of colonial base trim.
