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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....
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
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(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.
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
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.
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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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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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Great looking project. You made the right decision to avoid contrasting species.
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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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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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Moving on, I used my super-favorite holm oak woodie plane to chamfer the oak pieces:
Then I used the Shopsmith table as the reference to start gluing corners on:
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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:
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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This is routine stuff...
BUT, in the 2020 quarantine my Craftsman/MF No. 14 got upgraded with engine-turned sides
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Trimming the glued-up bottom panel to exact size:
A nice tight fit:
Chris