Thread: cursed project or low skill level?????

Good work, Rowan.

Thanks for posting the details. By doing that, you've allowed the rest of us to learn from your mistakes, not just yourself.

Have a greenie!

Col

Dude,

Looks great in the pictures and as long as SHMBO is happy all works out well.

Gotta tell you though, that is pretty much how all ov my projects work out. the tallent isnt in doing the job its in hiding the stuff ups so noone notices ;-)

Its called 'adapting the plans' not 'making a mistake'

When I leave out the rebate for a lid panel, I use the table saw to cut out the slot - just calculate how much wood must be left and set the fence so there is that much space left between blade & fence - run the errant bit of wood thru', then reverse the wood and cut another slot. If neccessary adjust the fence so the blade cuts out the middle bit.

Or do much the same thing with the router table - in fact with the router table you can even fix the missing slot/rebate after you have glued up the frame & the glue has set - you just have to square up the corners with a chisel, or round off the corners of the panel.

Note - I have plenty of experience in making quick 'adaptations' to my original plans.

I reckon it looks great! Any chance we can compare it to the thousand year old entertainer?

Looks fine to me, good work.

looks great! my first coffee table i made took me 4 hole days and looked like crap, i ended up using it for firewood...skill comes from repetition...

there was a class of art students, there teacher got them making pottery, he split the class into to groups. group A had to make as many pots as they could in the given time , group B had to make just one. after a few weeks each group showed there work, group A had 10 pots done the first few fell apart the next few were a bit better and the last couple of pots were perfect, group B who had to do just one pot , had worked on it over and over till it could not be shaped anymore and just looked like crap... you see group A was not concerned about getting all there pots perfect , they just had to make a heap of them and in doing so developed a skill because each pot they made they realized there mistakes and corrected them on the next one and so on ... don't judge yourself to harshly, just keep building things and through repetition and correcting you mistakes on each project your skills will grow before you very eyes...

by the way you said you wanted to make you chest look like an old Chinese one, black Japan is great for this...it gives that dark antique look to any piece of furniture, if you want to use it let me know and I will instruct you as best I can...

Rowan,

I think everyone read your post and identified completely with it! I'll just add my "looks good to me" and have to ask:

What the heck does a 1000 year old entertainment unit look like? I'd be thinking quite buxom, and playing a lute??

Cheers,

P

thanks for all the nice comments. Once the entertainment unit is finished (about 3 months at current rate of orgainising times where we are both free) I will post pics.

post script-------- it is a 100 year old design not a 1000 desing. only just noticed that mistake