Thread: embroidery box with 13 drawers

At that rate you could finish up with a white Christmas yourselves.

Originally Posted by Termite

If it's any consolation we had hail at my place today.
Lost the last of the little limes on my tree, same bloody thing happened last year.:mad:

So next year you are going to pick the limes before the storm??

The gardener never turned up, not that I blame him, we had around 2" of rain during the day with gale force winds, it was drafty in the shop too. So I moved back indoors, the dining room and then the kitchen as usual.

Glued up the front and rear frame as per pics below, I used a roll of poly bags to separate the pieces to avoid sticking together and also between the board and frames.






I shall complete the cross pieces hopefully tomorrow and tidy up the frames and hoping the drawers and sliders all line up.

In the meantime if you have the time come and have a look at our weather again this morning at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/webcams/torquay_webcam.shtml

But I wish I had turned up in Perth today and getting this:

http://www.citysurf.asn.au/webcam/

.

Stop Press.

Couldn't wait to finish off the other joints, I had to have another setup.

Frames reasonably square.


First lot of boxes in with sliders in place.


All boxes and sliders together with top lids in place and fit.


Looks if I was rather optomistic about finishing this weekend, more horizontal bars to joint plus rear vertical frames plus a top handle and the 13 drawer handles etc etc etc etc.

This is getting exciting!...looking really good.

Tell your SWMBO that her emroidery looks absolutely fantastic.

Keep up the good work: I’m enjoying watching you work

After the excitement of finding that all boxes and sliders fitted as per the last posted picture above had died down, the lady has been pointing out her shopping list had been growing all week and things were getting desparate in the larder area, this meant starting up the car and heading to the supermarket. However I did manage to do some marking up after the return from the shops and hopefully the next 7 days should be peaceful on that front.

Getting there mate.

Starting to look rather interesting. Only the final frames, panels, etc, plus that all that finishing and scraping, and polishing, and...

Cheers!

Auld Bassoon , There will not be any panels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out of interest I have just done some calculations.

Drawer/boxes 185 pieces of timber.

Frames 25 pieces of timber

sliders 26 pieces of timber
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236 pieces of timber
13 boxes x 8 tails= 104
13 boxes x 8 pins= 104
frames 8 M/T
15 bridles
12 cross joints.

around 31 calendar days so far.

13 boxes x 8 tails= 104
13 boxes x 8 pins= 104

Ah! so that's where the 104 comes from . Coming along nicely John.

Originally Posted by jow104

Auld Bassoon , There will not be any panels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just joshing mate!

Cheers!

Originally Posted by BobR

Ah! so that's where the 104 comes from . Coming along nicely John.

Odd that BobR, the message also come in at 10.14.

Eureka! (seem to remember that word from a film in the 1950's about gold mining in Australia)

All frames have now been completed and since the photograph taken the joints have been cleaned up using a belt and the an orbital sander. Therefore its back to the kitchen this evening to do the last gluing on the frames setup.



Does anyone know how long after using those two part epoxy glues you can go back to work on a joint without upsetting the glues set?

I've got those 26 sliders to put in and they cannot be stuck in at one session because of fitting.

Originally Posted by jow104

Eureka! (seem to remember that word from a film in the 1950's about gold mining in Australia)

Careful jow: you're spreading republicanism...

Does anyone know how long after using those two part epoxy glues you can go back to work on a joint without upsetting the glues set?

Depends whether it's quick-set or slow-set hardener I'd leave it 24 hours to be safe: epoxies don't need strong clamping pressure, but they don't like being moved around or stressed when setting.

Thanks Zenwood,

I read somewhere that some one had mixed PVA and epoxy into a joint at the same time, do you know anything about that one.?
I'm wanting to speed up the process if when fitting the sliders now the frames are firmly fixed there might be adjustments and then needing some gap filling adhesive but wanting a fast turnaround. (pva can be worked after one hour)