>Sycamore wardrobes
>I’m sure its getting a bit boring seeing all these wardrobes I’m making at the moment, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I have a couple of nicer(to make) pieces soon, a knee-hole desk with nine drawers, and a little shelf unit. Anyway here’s a few progress shots of the large sycamore […]
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Festool Carvex Review.
Festool Carvex Review. I’ve had a fairly good play with the carvex to form an opinion now, and this will be my review. First off let me tell you that it comes in a sys 1, and what you get in the box. The carvex itself and the cord, you get the dust extraction tube […]
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Festool New Toys…
Festool New Toys. I’ve been looking for a quicker and cleaner way to sand all my face timbers for some time, and with out splashing out on a decent wide belt sander I decided to take a look at the festool route. I consulted the gods at woodworkuk, Plus I checked out Paul-Marcel’s site and […]
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>Timber Store.
>I recently bought a house, and one of the things that got left behind was a 16’x8′ shed/garage. I’ve decided that it will make a good temporary timber store, and if it lasts me a couple of years I will be happy. I was going to buy a shipping container for this purpose, but when […]
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>Ash Wardrobes Finished.
>Just got the pair of European Ash wardrobes fitted and finished today. The clients were very happy and have asked me to quote for other work, and have recommended me to some of their friends. Anyway here’s a few pic’s… Unfortunately you can’t really see the large field I applied to the door panel and […]
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>Drawer problem.
>I have a small problem on the ash wardrobes I’m making, both of the robes are being fitted into alcoves, but one of these alcoves is 250mm(10″) smaller than the other. The wardrobes must both look the same from the front elevation, which means internally on the right hand one, there is an odd dog […]
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>Large fielded panels.
>I made this post yesterday, and its disappeared? I will try to write it again similar.. I’ve been working on the panels for the doors, that are going on the Ash wardrobes for the last couple of days. They are having a large field applied to them, I was going to make a jig for them to ride through […]
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>Timber selection.
>OK I’ve been machining some European white ash today, and thought I would speak a little bit about how I select timber for doors. When I look at timber for doors I want it to be straight and flat, with no twist or bow along its length, or cup through its width. I don’t use […]
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>Ash Wardrobes.
>OK I will not be doing a step by step on this project, as its all old ground that I’ve already covered in previous posts. However there will be some elements that you might find interesting on the door and drawer panels, they are to be fielded from the centre of the panel, and will need […]
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>Fitting the painted robe.
>Fitting time for the painted wardrobe….I kinder knew it would go OK, as I checked all the walls previously for level, and they were flat but 5mm out. So I didn’t need to scribe much off, opting to just plane to the line. Started with the base, I cut the carpet up. Then the underlay. I […]
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