Thread: Red Mahogany bookcase thingy

Went to the warehouse and picked up more Red Hog and then back to the lair.

Chopped the slabs into bit size pieces, some 725mm long for the lower legs and some at 1325 for the uper virticals.
Pic 1 marking out with a great aluminium square that I picked up at gasweld a year or so back. Here I am just re-aligning the crossbar with the end so I can trim the natural edge off. The thing I realy like is that you can hold the long side in line with the grain on a long slab, line it up with the natural edges etc, it then gives you the angle to cut the slab off at. I used to guess the angle and a lot of the time I would waste 50mm of the slab (sometimes critiacal) buy getting the cut off angle a little wrong. (hope all that makes sense)
Pic 2 slice and dice, long aluminium straight edge and Dewalt saw, this saw has a Flai blade which makes butter out of most timbers, you only need a very gentle push (one finger would do it) to move the saw through the slab (mostly 40 -50mm slab hardwood). The other thing that takes a lot of work out of this is a few steaks of bees wax across the foot plate.(pic 4)
Pic 3 is a new little snozle I put on today, I got sick of this saw throwing dust all over the workshop. It was a shot piece of vacuum cleaner hose I cut off with the band saw and Araldited on. Works realy well. I know I could hook the vac up but it is a pain in the aspin colorado with that hose draging around.
Pic 5 quick trim and straighten on the Maktablesaw. Then through the thicknesser and cut some joints (with wide tenons [160mm] the 14" saw is great). Last pic is obvious, the two completed modules stacked with books etc. Drawer pulls have to be finished. One is just a block of wood as a temp pull.
Tomorrow, M & T joints, set up the new Flettymortice jig.

There's a lot to be said with starting off with rough-sawn timber and dressing it yourself hey?

So a happy client who paid oodles of money?

CH I am glad I read it otherwise that handle would have been given the thumbs down looks great. Love the natural edges after all

Where did you jump from Waldo? yes customers with big smiles and big budgets is what you need. Two down (and full of books) two to go. Originaly they were to be 400 higher but they are building a new house a couple of doors along and the room where these will go will have a raked ceiling. I may have to build a top module for it once they are in the new house.

Hi Ray, the pics don't do it justice, once all four are in I will get some with a better camera.

I like it. I did not take long to get this used.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

Hi Ray, the pics don't do it justice, once all four are in I will get some with a better camera.

Just showing Sue whats she notice they don't match (the shelves) the eyes wide open "Someones a knitter"

Yes very keen knitter, the shelves are adjustable. She also didn't want things too asymmetrical.

We have another friend too who belongs to the same stich and bitch group as this lady who will have some amazing items in aur art exhibition in October. I will post some pic when she has pieces finished. Some amazing knitted rugs, bowls and other knitty things.

Christos, she was putting books and baskets in as I put the shelves in. I couldn't get them in fast enough for her.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

Yes very keen knitter, the shelves are adjustable. She also didn't want things too asymmetrical.

We have another friend too who belongs to the same stich and bitch group as this lady who will have some amazing items in aur art exhibition in October. I will post some pic when she has pieces finished. Some amazing knitted rugs, bowls and other knitty things.

Christos, she was putting books and baskets in as I put the shelves in. I couldn't get them in fast enough for her.

Sue knows a few ladies from some groups up that way she has been in their Back to Back Challenge Maitland Spinners mainly she knows of the Stitch n Bitch group

I don't know the real name of the group but thats their nick name for it. I track down some photos.

Todays efforts.
Fletty, I haven't altered the vice yet, found I could twist the vice and get enough travel in each direction to do this job but will make the changes soon. If the timber sections were wider I don't think it would work. But anyway the whole thing worked a treat, $75 and 10min to bolt it down. Used a 12mm router bit and cut the tenons to suit, sweet.
On the first two I left these large tenons full length but decided to trim it down and cut the centre out. Mainly so the routed mortices didn't need to be so long.

Neat work there CH

Hi Ray, Makes for a bl_ _dy cheap morticer and easy too. I had it vagley in the back of my mind
but hadn't given it enough brain time untill Fletty mentioned it, on came the little bright light.
Should have done it ages ago. If I was only doing it as a hobby I wouldn't worry about it but for speed and to aid in making a dollar its a great move. I will need a new drillpress next, the little GMC isn't a workhorse.

Never seen the router bit in the drill press trick before Craw, does the machine have to be going flat out and is that a special plunging bit or your normal everyday straight bit and the Stitch&Bitch ladies sound frightening