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08-24-2016, 07:24 AM
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It's amazing how regularly furniture gets thrown away around here. It's rare for it to be in good enough shape to use as furniture, but 50% of the time it's made of good enough material to be useful. Ikea is the exception of course. I don't even really count their stuff as furniture, even though I own some of it myself.
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08-20-2016, 05:14 PM
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I can hear my ears
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and because i couldn't just hit the like button
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08-20-2016, 05:14 PM
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oh.. and it's not quite done. I got the White Walls. They go on Weds. My birthday pressie to me.
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08-20-2016, 08:30 PM
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I already built a spindle sander for the drill press. Besides, blenders are way too fast.
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08-24-2016, 07:30 AM
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08-25-2016, 09:30 AM
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8/16 Tuesday evening
Over the previous weekend, I spied a nasty looking table in the trash. It was a small card table sized table, and had been used as a craft table. The top was a scratched up formica top, covered in spilled paint and wood underneath was swollen and nasty looking from variuos spills. But the apron and legs looked to be in sound condition, and solid wood. So I took it home, threw out the table top, and saved the rest. The hidden parts of the aprons had a dark stain but no finish. I lightly scraped them to make them flat and glued them up. These are going to be for the trunnion supports for the table top. I stuck them in the vise and clamped them up to dry. Last edited by glatt; 08-25-2016 at 10:06 AM. |
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08-25-2016, 09:36 AM
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8/17 Wednesday - another hour or so this evening.
I ripped my glued up table aprons to width and cut them to length The top and bottom arc of the trunnion supports are described by different radiuses (radii?) from a point that would be floating in space. So I clamped a cutoff from the same stock next to my work piece and measured to find that point. My layout lines are hard to see. I was being lazy before by not sanding the finish off, and now I regret it. But with the work I went through to draw those lines, I'm not about to go back now and clean this up. Also, I'm realizing that having a functioning band saw would be extremely helpful right now to cut this out. |
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08-25-2016, 09:42 AM
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8/20 Saturday - I can work for a couple hours because it's the weekend.
First I cut the corner of each work piece off on the table saw. That's easy enough. Then I use a saber saw to cut about an eight of an inch away from the line. Saber saws suck. They struggle through thick maple, and the blade kept pulling out so I would have to put it in again. If I tighten it too much to keep it from falling out, then I will break the brittle metal. So I cut for 30 seconds at a time and then replace the blade that fell out. The cut is crap. I say fuck it when it comes to cutting the arc on the bottom of these parts. It's just there for aesthetic reasons, and I cut a notch instead to do the same thing. Last edited by glatt; 08-25-2016 at 10:10 AM. |
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08-23-2016, 10:22 PM
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CANNIBAL!
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08-25-2016, 12:48 PM
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Can you take a pic of the whole thing so I can get an idea of scale?
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08-25-2016, 01:33 PM
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Here
It's sitting on a bedside table that the same neighbors who thew the bed out also threw out. I plan to try to turn that table into an actual base. Put wheels on it and cut a hole in the top to let sawdust fall down into the drawer. Something like that. Maybe attach legs to the existing legs splayed out a little more so it's very stable. |
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08-25-2016, 01:41 PM
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So it's like 4 ft tall?
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08-27-2016, 06:52 AM
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Side tangent for the men vs. women (if any of the latter are still coming into this thread...) I get that cool things come out of workshops, for sure. It's like the sausage factory. But am I the only one who sees the typical chaos of a standard workshop and just immediately wants to leave? I don't mean in an "ew, it's dirty" kind of way, but a genuine "oh my god no I have to leave" panic. I can't imagine even hanging out in there, the stuff is so overwhelming.
No offense to your workshop, glatt, you make some very cool stuff with it. |
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08-27-2016, 07:04 AM
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And I've been trying to aim the camera at the less cluttered areas of the shop!
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