Popular Post Mick S Posted May 1, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 I've posted previously that we were very fortunate to host Darrell Peart for a weekend workshop a couple of weeks back. The seminar was great. I know everyone left with a better understanding and appreciation for what all goes into a Greene and Greene style piece. I had been planning on making a side table for the Morris chair I finished last year and thought the Fremont night stand would be a great piece to go with it. Unfortunately the space isn't wide enough to fit it in, so I'm thinking maybe Darrell's Tercet table might work better. In the meantime, we have a file cabinet that doesn't go with anything else in the room. I've modified the Guild's Fremont night stand plans to use as a file cabinet replacement as my next project. Line drawing elevations: I'm going back and forth on deciding whether to have the doors swing open or be attached to the file drawers behind them. I have a space limitation on the left door swing, so I may attach them. Back view Side view CNC router cut templates. Starting the rough milling process. The thicker stock is 9/4 so I'll resaw it down to yield the 6/4 final thickness for the legs and use the thinner cutoff for the drawers. The wider 4/4 boards will get resawed for veneering the panels. My plan is to use traditional wooden runners for the upper drawers and Blum undermount Blumotion slides for the file drawers. Should be a fun project for me! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted May 1, 2019 Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 Looks like you have a good start on it Mick, that’s going to be beautiful 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee-dub Posted May 1, 2019 Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 This will be a great ride-a-long. Thanks for taking the time Mick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pkinneb Posted May 1, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 Nice! This should be fun. Having access to a CNC would be awesome On another note I vote you the winner of the most awesome view from your shop window contest, you did get dinged one point for the water bottle blockage LOL 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted May 1, 2019 Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, pkinneb said: you did get dinged one point for the water bottle blockage LOL Paul, you should give a half a point back because he is using a crock cistern instead of a metal stand for the bottle. Mick, I think if it were my project, and it isn't, I would lean toward attaching the doors to the drawers. Opening doors to pull out drawers aways seems a bit of a nuisance to me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick S Posted May 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 1 hour ago, pkinneb said: Nice! This should be fun. Having access to a CNC would be awesome On another note I vote you the winner of the most awesome view from your shop window contest, you did get dinged one point for the water bottle blockage LOL I do have a nice view. The first time my brother came I asked him for any suggestions he had about shop layout, etc. He pondered a while and said the first thing he'd do is knock out that wall and put in a glass wall. 1 hour ago, Chet said: Opening doors to pull out drawers aways seems a bit of a nuisance to me. Agreed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted May 1, 2019 Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 1 minute ago, Mick S said: I o have a nice view. The first time my brother came I asked him for any suggestions he had about shop layout, etc. He pondered a while and siad the first thing he'd do is knock out that wall and put in a glass wall. Agreed. That is amazing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronn W Posted May 1, 2019 Report Share Posted May 1, 2019 A great project and a great place to make it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted May 2, 2019 Report Share Posted May 2, 2019 Mick, that doesn’t look to be mesquite? Glad Darrell’s program was a success. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted May 2, 2019 Report Share Posted May 2, 2019 Another vote for attaching "doors" to drawers. And for the awesome view! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted May 2, 2019 Report Share Posted May 2, 2019 +1 and +1 Side question, what is the table with all the dog holes in the last photo of your OP? Clamping table or down draft? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick S Posted May 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2019 5 minutes ago, Mark J said: Side question, what is the table with all the dog holes in the last photo of your OP? Clamping table or down draft? Mark - It's my tablesaw outfeed table. Several years ago I made Timothy Wilmot's MFTC shop table as a CNC project. I cut a couple of extra tops thinking that someday I might not have access to a CNC router. When I got ready to build my outfeed table I used those since I still have a CNC router available and since I find the design really useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick S Posted May 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2019 10 hours ago, K Cooper said: Mick, that doesn’t look to be mesquite? Glad Darrell’s program was a success. Nope, sapele this time. I'm down to cutting-board-sized offcuts in my mesquite stash. I think rather than paying a 40 - 50% surcharge for shipping I'm going to make a trip to the Austin area to visit some family and friends and pick up a few hundred feet while I'm there. Who knows, I may even spend an afternoon tubing the Guadalupe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted May 3, 2019 Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 Mick, just beeping nosey. What do you do with the sanding disc attached to the drill motor in pic 3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mick S Posted May 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 58 minutes ago, K Cooper said: Mick, just beeping nosey. What do you do with the sanding disc attached to the drill motor in pic 3? That is my answer to being old enough to not want to get on my knees to crank my planer table up and down when switching back and forth from jointer to planer. It's a plywood disk with aluminum pegs epoxied into it that fit into holes drilled into the crank wheel. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mick S Posted May 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 I made a little progress yesterday prepping the veneers for glue up. I resawed the 12" wide boards over at my buddy Carl's on his big Felder. Sweet machine! I wound up with 12 panels at .100" thickness. I sanded them down to a final thickness of .080". Here are a couple of videos of my simple process for keeping things organized when you have that many pieces to sand. I tend to lose track of what's been sanded and what hasn't. My apologies for the video production. I'm not much of a videographer. I hope to get all the panels laid up tomorrow. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted May 3, 2019 Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 Good technique. I number my pieces on the end with an arrow pointing up. One pass the arrow points up, next the arrow points down. But with something as thin as veneer there is not enough edge to do this so your idea will come in handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick S Posted May 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 21 hours ago, Chet said: Good technique. I number my pieces on the end with an arrow pointing up. One pass the arrow points up, next the arrow points down. But with something as thin as veneer there is not enough edge to do this so your idea will come in handy. I mark mine in a similar way prior to resawing, but on the edge. If I have 3 pieces to resaw I mark one with a diagonal line on the edge running in the direction of the rising grain so I can see it better after it's been cut and know which direction to feed. On the other pieces I put two diagonal lines, 3 lines, etc so I can keep the flitches straight. I offset the lines toward one end so It's easier to keep from having the odd piece upside down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted May 3, 2019 Report Share Posted May 3, 2019 Good to have a friend with a big bandsaw...Nice!! Those came out great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted May 4, 2019 Report Share Posted May 4, 2019 9 hours ago, pkinneb said: Good to have a friend with a big bandsaw...Nice!! Those came out great! +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted May 4, 2019 Report Share Posted May 4, 2019 Mick, how high of a fence does your bud have on the bs? That’s some super fine cuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted May 4, 2019 Report Share Posted May 4, 2019 10 minutes ago, K Cooper said: Mick, how high of a fence does your bud have on the bs? That’s some super fine cuts. I was thinking the same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick S Posted May 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2019 7 hours ago, pkinneb said: I was thinking the same thing Paul - I forgot to take photos of the process until after I had broken down the setup. I just set a piece I’d already cut back on the table for that photo after I had finished. He has an auxiliary fence made of Baltic birch ply that clamps to the primary fence. It’s about 10” tall in its high position, 6” in the low position. I left his AD741 set up for planing in between cuts for a good, consistent surface to resaw from. The panels in the video had already been run through the sander a few passes before I thought to shoot some video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mick S Posted May 5, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted May 5, 2019 So, I've been playing around with iMovie trying to up the game a little. Marc will no doubt be sleepless for a while trying to tamp down the competition. Been a busy weekend for me. I got the veneers cut for the sides and back panels, the material milled for the legs and frame, the side and back panels veneered and ready to assemble. First up is an edited version of the two videos I linked to above. Panel Veneer Techniques: Pt 1 - Next is a video on splicing the panels together prior to laying them up on the panels. Part 2 - The material I used for the core is CompCore, also known as J Core as well as other brands. It's a composite of a plywood core with MDF faces. Best of both worlds - the strength and screw holding capabilities of plywood with the flatness of MDF. The fixture I use for joining the veneers is made of melamine coated PB with two parallel t-tracks, with a fixed front fence and a sliding fence. I position that fenc eabout 3/8" away from the edge of the veneer and use wedges to provide clamping pressure against the veneer. Part 3 goes into the layup and clamping procedures for the panels. The side panels came out about .020" thicker than the final dimension, giving me just enough to smooth out on the drum sander before I cut them to size. I'll probably get to the solid frame stock on Tuesday. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted May 5, 2019 Report Share Posted May 5, 2019 Great progress Mick, and very nice work on the videos, well done sir! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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