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Two and a half days till it must be delivered...

The vanity is coming along. This has been a real collaberation between me and my wife and we have both worked on every piece of this unit.



I went out this morning and took a photo of the vanity as it sits with its first coat of varnish on it.









We used a dark walnut stain, which is a real departure for the look we both normally like, but is starting to look really nice.



Tonight I hope to hit this with… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on December 22, 2009 at 9:48am — No Comments

From Concept to Funiture....Almost

Our neighbor mentioned to my wife that her 9 year old daughter really needed a little vanity to start putting her girlie stuff, and seeing as its Christmas, and seeing as how I have this niftly wood shop, wouldn't it be nice if we could build something for her.



I went out to the shop Saturday late afternoon and put the top together (birch ply with poplar edging), and Saturday night my wife and sat down and sketched up some ideas:…





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Added by Kerry Drake on December 14, 2009 at 1:12pm — 2 Comments

Long Time ... No Post

Well, cancer treatment followed by vacation / recupration has caused a big gap in posts, but I'm back home now and slowly starting to get back in the shop.



I did get my new router base from Woodcraft, and found that it was too big for the dadomax jig (I'll explain in a later video), but I figured out a way to solve this problem and ordered some nylon set screws from smallparts.com.



Everything is together and I made a test cut with the dadomax and it works good (once I fine… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on November 5, 2009 at 2:27pm — No Comments

New Tool SNAFU

Well, my new DadoMax jig did show up on Monday, but I'm nearly through a 2 week long preparation for my next cancer treatment and my energy is low. I did look at the stuff on Monday and thought: "Hey, there really ought to be some instructions in here..."



It was too late to call Woodline, so I had to wait till Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, I called and talked to Wayne Suttor (Now I think I'm spelling it right) and he immediately knew I was calling looking for instructions (that he… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on September 23, 2009 at 10:48am — 1 Comment

Another New Tool

Recently I saw a video shot by Woodworker's Journal at the 2009 AWFS Fair showing Wayne Suitor (I'm probably spelling his name wrong) from Woodline USA giving a sneak peak at their new DadoMax Router Jig.



Here it is:





Well, the DadoMax was not yet… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on September 15, 2009 at 3:39pm — 1 Comment

Drawer Front and Flat Wood

Last Thursday I cut my drawer fronts all to Length (25 3/8") and drilled pocket holes in 8 of the pieces in preparation for putting 16 of the pieces togehter in pairs to make 8 panels I could cut to size for the bottom 8 drawers (my stock is wide enough for the top drawers).



Last night (Tuesday) I went in to glue up the panels and found that over the long weekend the pieces I had cut had all cupped, so none of them were flat. Luckly, I now have a 10" Jointer / Planer and I spend the… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on September 9, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

I love a new Tool (even if it's not made by Kreg).

About the only thing missing from my shop was a thickness planer and decent jointer. I saw a video review of the RIKON 12" Combo Jointer / Planer and thought it would be a great idea for my shop (and its rapidly vanishing floor space) to get a combo set-up. That way I would get rid of the old (nearly broken) 4" jointer I have and replace it with a combo.



Now the RIKON is supposed to be about $1600.00 and that was a lot of money for me drop on any tool (combination or not). I did some… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on September 2, 2009 at 3:41pm — 2 Comments

Face Frame - What's Done is Done

I managed to install the face frame on Sunday (despite Reba the Wonder Dog getting her first introduction to a SKUNK). Things went pretty well and my wife really likes the way it looks (which is what really matters). I am not unhappy with the results.



Here is the built in with all but one of the drawers removed (that drawer, once installed is in such a way that I can't reach the release lever on the left side:





Here is the… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on August 31, 2009 at 9:11am — 3 Comments

Kreg Toolbox Challenge

It's been a slow week on the faceframe project, I'm at the point where I have to move the stuff into the house and acutally install the frame, and I need a full day to tackle that, not just the hour a night I spend in the shop.



I did notice however that my Kreg tools were laying all over the place, so they finally got their own… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on August 28, 2009 at 11:18am — 3 Comments

It's got a stain!

Two coats of stain now on the face frame, going to do at least one more coat tomorrow (using Minwax stain and poly together in a can - honey pine).

So at least one more coat on the front, then 1 good coat on the back just to seal the wood all the way around.

This beast might acually be installed next weekend!

Added by Kerry Drake on August 15, 2009 at 8:27pm — 1 Comment

Final Sanding Done

Spent another 30 minutes going over the frame with 220 grit paper in my Random Orbit Sander, then I flipped the whole frame over and ran over the back with 150 just to clean up the surface.

IF I get to work on it tomorrow, it will be to start staining it...

Added by Kerry Drake on August 10, 2009 at 6:50pm — No Comments

Sanding, sanding, and more sanding

It wasn't really that bad. I sanded the whole thing with 100 grit paper in my Random Orbit Sander and then went over it again with 220 grit.



Here is a picture of the frame completely assembled:





And a couple shots of the pre-sanded joints:…





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Added by Kerry Drake on August 4, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Moving right along

I've got the whole frame assembled and will being some sanding tonight, and I'll take a couple pictures tonight to post.



An interesting thing, I decided Saturday to take a break and install an old airconditioner I had laying around into the wall of my shop. I cut out 2 sections of the wall studs and then framed in the hole for the air conditioner, and I thought to myself, HEY, I could use my pocked hole jig to put in the new pieces of framing for the air… Continue

Added by Kerry Drake on August 4, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

First Pocket Hole Project

I'm building a mighty large face from (its like 9' long and 35" tall) to face a set of built in drawers in the master bedroom. I've got it about 75% finished and will post up some photos shortly.

I have found the face clamp is a huge help in making nice flush joints.

Added by Kerry Drake on July 29, 2009 at 4:02pm — 1 Comment

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