Thread: It's just not cricket!

Live and learn mate!

Looking great Derek!

Just a question- Once you've resawed timber I've always thought that you sticker the timber to allow for equal exposure. I notice you clamp yours down, is this a temporary thing or is it how I should be doing it too?

Andy

Nice tool drawers.

nice grain pattern in the drawer fronts

note to self: "never show SWMBO a work in progress"

I'm not quite with you, Derek. Has it been rejected as unsuitable for purpose, or decreed 'too good' for the original plan & earmarked for something else??

In the former case, you have some veery nice tool storage, as Cliff suggests, & in the latter, well, you need another project after this one, don't you?? You wouldn't want to spend endless hours just pottering in the shed testing tools, or making them & writing about them & just having selfish fun, would you?



Edit: Suggestion - I reckon they will look even better if you switch the two sets of bottom drawer fronts - the grain patterns will then be more similar on both chests.....

At this stage I would be installing a significant other detection device to the shed door which, when activated, drops 25mm thick iron curtains around the shed and inserts enough beer, food and supplies into said shed until significant other has a mind changing device implanted into cranium.

I assume that Lyndy has not rejected the piece, just its use as an entertainment unit (because it was filling the holes that electronics would have gone in with drawers that was the mistake). But if I'm wrong, I'm sure there are other members who'd be happy to pass your work off as their own!

You should have known better Derek. just how long is it going to take you to learn?
Excellent work as always.,

Originally Posted by jmk89

I assume that Lyndy has not rejected the piece, just its use as an entertainment unit (because it was filling the holes that electronics would have gone in with drawers that was the mistake). But if I'm wrong, I'm sure there are other members who'd be happy to pass your work off as their own!

Hi Jeremy

You are correct. I suspect that this was Lynndy's idea all along!

To be truthful, I don't altogether mind the new turn that has overtaken the military chests. For one I now can truly think of them as "military" chests and not as an entertainment centre. Also, I happen to agree with Lynndy that they look better this way .. somehow the shelves, while they would have worked, detracted from the whole.

What gets me, however, is that I have twice started to build an entertainment centre - that is, a place to house the TV and related audio equipment - and now, twice, this has morphed into something else. I have a host of things I want to build that are more interesting than another entertainment centre!

The first one used the doors to become a coopered side table ..



What we plan now is to use the two chests alongside one another - there is a long wall to fill - with the TV on top of one side, and I have a cunning plan for the audio equipment (which I can only test out later, so I will keep you all in suspence until then - but I am open for ideas if you have them).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by groeneaj

Looking great Derek!

Just a question- Once you've resawed timber I've always thought that you sticker the timber to allow for equal exposure. I notice you clamp yours down, is this a temporary thing or is it how I should be doing it too?

Andy

Hi Andy

I have had the the Kauri Pine in my workshop for over a year. The rough sawn boards were several years old. I am confident that they are dry and there is little weather/temperature change expected over the next week. I clamp them when storing them for overnight to a few days to prevent any movement. This has worked for me in the past.

I wonder how others go about storing boards for several drawers?

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by IanW

..Suggestion - I reckon they will look even better if you switch the two sets of bottom drawer fronts - the grain patterns will then be more similar on both chests.....

Hi Ian

I cannot switch the boards around. There are slight variations in the sizes of the rows (which go unnoticed). I did play around with the patterns before fitting the boards, and this way they created the best balance in my opinion. Hopefully this will be better seen when the drawers are completed.

My approach is to place the darkest board (or the board with the most prominent figure) at the bottom, with the lightest at the top. I find this graduation gives a cabinet a "grounded" look. Would you do this differently?

Regards from Perth

Derek

A classic case of someone shifting the goal posts. You willl never win

Originally Posted by derekcohen

I cannot switch the boards around. There are slight variations in the sizes of the rows (which go unnoticed).

Derek - I just thought the prominent 'chevron' grain on the left better matched that on the top right. The pics don't show a big difference in colur, so it was only the pattern that caught my eye. I thought it might be a simple matter of swapping them, but I understand how minor discrepencies can sneak into two ostensibly identical pieces....

Originally Posted by derekcohen

.......My approach is to place the darkest board (or the board with the most prominent figure) at the bottom, with the lightest at the top. I find this graduation gives a cabinet a "grounded" look. Would you do this differently?

Not at all - that's precisely how I would arrange it, too. I think the pics are a little deceptive, and don't show as much difference in the boards as you can see on the real deal in front of you. I trust your aesthetic sense........

I'm highly amused by the whole episode. My SO got fed up with waiting for me to build something for the idiot box & hi fi gear, & went out & bought one. Being the good shopper she is, though, she managed to find something that was made of real wood, and was 1/2 price because it was the last unit they made in that style & size. So it's tolerable, didn't break the bank, and has filled a need for the last 6 years.

Hmm, better not show this to Lynndy - you might get the same treatment...


Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

.... as Cliff suggests,......

That is all it was.... somebody saw another use for it other than as an entertainment unit & so did I.