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Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-07-2023
My favorite TV shows (to my wife's disgust) are Car modification episodes. Especially, Full Custom Garage.
I've had a nice 1/4-sawn oak box rabbeted together (grain fully wrapped around all 4 corners) for months, but it didn't inspire me. Today, I took the big Disston rip-saw to it....
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A couple years back, I really went at an old oak tool-chest, changing the aspect ratio, and all the drawers accordingly. I still like that baby:
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Inspiration, a bit at a time, hopefully!
Chris
RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - Mike Brady - 04-07-2023
(04-07-2023, 08:25 AM)C. in Indy Wrote: My favorite TV shows (to my wife's disgust) are Car modification episodes. Especially, Full Custom Garage.Your save of the tool chest is outstanding. I'll be interested in what the future holds for the oak box-sides. Keep us posted on the Accutron watch restoration too, although I understand you will be getting (wisely) expert help with that, being that it is a family heirloom.
I've had a nice 1/4-sawn oak box rabbeted together (grain fully wrapped around all 4 corners) for months, but it didn't inspire me. Today, I took the big Disston rip-saw to it....
A couple years back, I really went at an old oak tool-chest, changing the aspect ratio, and all the drawers accordingly. I still like that baby:
Inspiration, a bit at a time, hopefully!
Chris
RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-08-2023
Sounds like a plan, some steps and some patience!
I quit my earlier plan for highly contrasted woods, and decided to get out some oak veneers I've used sparingly before. Today was just a basic glue and a rough hack to size:
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RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-11-2023
As much as the carcass walls are attractive, they had no provisions for supporting a floor-piece.
From Full Custom Garage, I was introduced to a new meaning of the word "armature". I always knew it from electric motors. But it's also a word for a support structure within a sculpture. I've been fiddling with some sliced-up pieces, to interlock and maybe to eventually protrude a little bit:
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RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - CStan - 04-11-2023
Great looking project. You made the right decision to avoid contrasting species.
RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-12-2023
Thanks!
Taking a step back from over-thinking things, just cutting and trimming the top lid for a tidier look. Yeah, I ripped out some veneer accidentally already... will fix that eventually
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RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-14-2023
Iterations!
Now the slip-over top was proportionally too big in viewing, so I wanted to augment the bottom of the box.
Since the "wasted half" of the original tall oak box was still on hand, I cut it into 4 corner pieces. Then... further into 8 corner pieces to stack and fiddle with. It's starting to be an idea:
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RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-15-2023
Moving on, I used my super-favorite holm oak woodie plane to chamfer the oak pieces:
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Then I used the Shopsmith table as the reference to start gluing corners on:
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RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-16-2023
The feet had a bit of the "claw foot bathtub" feel to them, so I have re-sawn them, slightly differently on front/rear and left/right pairs:
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My plywood stash was just shy of making a bottom panel. So I'm gluing on some lath strips (really nice wood in my opinion) to build up the dimension and still have a stable structure:
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RE: Inspiration from "the Chop" - C. in Indy - 04-17-2023
This is routine stuff...
BUT, in the 2020 quarantine my Craftsman/MF No. 14 got upgraded with engine-turned sides
.Trimming the glued-up bottom panel to exact size:
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A nice tight fit:
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