Thread: Winecab MkII

Originally Posted by Zen

Love the timber (what is it?), the colour, and the satin finish. Did you ebonize the dowels? They look alot darker, and look good for it. Did you do the design as well?

Timber its crapiarta! Colour is Watyl "stain & varnish" new baltic pine thats been custom tinted by the shop with red, then I added some ebony... while still wet I ragged it off flat then stained once again with American redwood stain(also watyl) and finally finished off with some watyl satin poly(every thing was sprayed on).
Yep dowels were ebonised, and yep its my own design.

Originally Posted by Pete

Did you fit the dowels after glueing the front and backframes to the carcase? Each bottle compartment looks large enough to hold 8 bottles if the dowels would carry that weight .

Yes the dowels are fed in from the rear, the holes in rear rail go right through... but there's enough play for the dowels too slide backwards and out of the front rails. The racks are only 410mm wide so 4 bottles is about it.

Originally Posted by Major

$600AU + 1 bottle of 86' GRANGE + GST

Thats a pretty close guess... bottle of OL'#7 would be nice!(Jacks)

Originally Posted by Tankster

Here's a thought. Next time a customer wants a "Special" stain, supply the job raw and get the customer to apply the stain themselves?

Yeah that'll be good to save me time but with a cab like this some of the staining needs to be done before assembley... plus they get charged more for finishing!
I still havent worked out a way of staining into internal corners without leaving tell-tale marks... any ideas? I might start using Ubeaut water dyes and stain the whole lot as it doesnt affect PVA glue.

Originally Posted by Dusty

Those dovetails are deadset air tight. How many hours went into it?

Yeah its taken me a while to get them DT's right with the "euro jig" the problems I had before was the actual thickness of the wood has to be exactly the same, my old thicknesser POS wouldnt do the same every pass(were talking +/-.2mm!). There are ways to set the jig with differing thickness but I havent worked that out yet.
How many hours, way too many bout 80-100(biscuit joiner and finishing probs...) it should have taken bout 40-50max!

Thanks everyone for your nice comments and encouragement.