New Members: Please Introduce Yourself!

[KregRep]

Welcome to the Kreg Owners' Community!
 
This thread is the best place to introduce yourself and let other Community members get to know you. Please include your name, where you're from, your experience building with wood, why you joined this Community, and any other interesting facts about yourself. Also, feel free to share links to your blog, personal website, etc.

Once you've introduced yourself, be sure to check out Helpful Tips for New Members.

We hope that you find great use and enjoyment from the Kreg Owners' Community!

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[Deb Sholly]

Thanks, William! That was my first thought but won't the top board of the bookcase make it too thick to get to the door itself?



William Anderson said:

Deb:

I think the best way to do this is to put upwards facing pocket holes in the gables of the bookcases prior to assembly. Then the screws would go upwards into the door. The door is hollow but there is some structured framing and you could have to make sure the screws go into the framing inside the door and not just through the veneer of the door. 

Sounds like a fun project.

[Ken Darga]

The frame inside of hollow core doors is very narrow.

I've found some doors, that contained only 1" wide strip around the perimeter and 

a few randomly spaced horizontally.

The ends of the vertical strips along the sides, are visible at the top and bottom edge of the doors---note the visible parting lines.

If the door is painted, the paint can be removed/sanded off to make the joint visible.

When you see how thick the end strips are, you can be pretty sure of what the other strips sizes.

Note much solid area, for the screws to grip, for securely affixing the door.

[Ken Darga]

Images of some hollow core doors.

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honey-coned hollow core

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Hollow core door table top.

Note the location of the pocket hole screws near the end, so the screw grips into the strips in the hollow core door.

[Ken Darga]

Alternate construction:

1. Open the ends of the door and remove the interior strips.

Clear an area to facilitate inserting wider strips.

2. install filler strip(s)  5-6" wide inside the door and glue in place, so as to provide a solid area for affixing the door to the book cases.

(NOTE: The photo shows a paneled door, adding filler strips in the hollow section.

Filler strips can be cut from 3/4" stock or 2x stock, cut to size to butt inside of the door, and build up the quantity of strips to achieve the desired solid area needed.

[Cameron Von St. James]

Name: Cameron Von St. James

Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota  USA

Experience: Novice. I started wood working about 2 years ago. Grew up never learning to be very handy with tools or in the shop. Have since started to make a woodworking shop in my garage. Have built a few workbenches, a potting bench, numerous shelves and cabinets and continue to learn and grow every day! I'm a little bummed out I'll have to stop woodworking for the winter as my garage is not heated. I may have to change that.

My next projects are a built in laundry storage solution, a built in entertainment area, and a loft bed with a desk/study area in the lower section for my 8 year old daughter. I would also like to make her a cottage/fort/play area next summer.

[richard kazura]

Hello glad to be here hope you folk can help an old timer out Trying to get back into woodworking.

[Robert Brennan]

Welcome Richard,

I hope you enjoy yourself.

Some possible advice, can you please knock off any references to "old timers" as we are all the same and as much as we may wish not to be, every day I get up and check if I am still above the ground, and I am thankful I may have been overlooked for yet another day.

So don't be reminding anybody please as you don't really know who they may be, could be collectors!!

Otherwise enjoy Site and accept  there are all sorts of wood workers always keen to offer "advice"

and  of course have lots of enjoyable times with your Kreg tool

[Sadi Laureta]

hello...
good to know there is a place like this to share thoughts and ideas....
I live in California and just bought a house and looking forward to do some projects around the house

Sadi....

[Gregg Monson]

Hi my name is Gregg. I live by a little town in Minnesota called Rollag. I have built a few things such as bed frames with cubby compartments, shelves, and other small furniture items.

I joined Kreg Community because I am very impressed with my Master Kreg  Pocket hole set. Love working  with it.

I am looking for a good plan for a changing table/dresser. Have seen some real nice ones in the blog area. Going to be a Grandpa of "Twins" in March need to get this done.

[Robert Brennan]

Welcome Gregg,

Its just the place for ideas and plans, have a good look in the Free Project Plans and the Kreg Owners Community Projects.

Dont be wasting any time! get cracking as you will be making two of everything

Gregg Monson said:

Hi my name is Gregg. I live by a little town in Minnesota called Rollag. I have built a few things such as bed frames with cubby compartments, shelves, and other small furniture items.

I joined Kreg Community because I am very impressed with my Master Kreg  Pocket hole set. Love working  with it.

I am looking for a good plan for a changing table/dresser. Have seen some real nice ones in the blog area. Going to be a Grandpa of "Twins" in March need to get this done.

[Robert Peden]

Howdy, My name is Robert. I am in Meridian,Ms. I am a fair DIY'er. Love wove with wood. Just bought a Kreg Jr. and can't wait to try it out.

[Donny J. Victory]

Hello,

I am Donny. I live in North Central Texas. I grew up on a ranch where we had to do our selves, or it wasn't going to get done. That is when I developed my love for working with my hands, especially woodworking. I have recently reached a point in my life where I have the opportunity to set up the wood shop that I have always dreamed about. For my 40th birthday my wife went crazy buying me all the tools that I had fantasized to her about (planer, table saw, mitre saw, drill press, etc, etc) But she also got me something she had seen on an infomercial--The Kreg Jig Jr. Wow! Joinery has never been so simple and effective. Very impressed.