>Wardrobes finished.
>Been fitting the oak wardrobes and cabinets for the last couple of days, got them finished today. These were hung on French cleats, and took about 40 mins to hang. Few shots of the newly formed walk ins, just needs a lick of paint, and for the handles to be delivered. Thats it for today, I have […]
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>The robe’s continue.
> So onto the walk in wardrobes… here are the floor to nearly the ceiling doors in dry fit. The Oak is really clean, and very mild to plane by hand. Got the cornice moulded, there is some nice ray pattern on the face side. The little chunky doors glued up. […]
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>Oak robes
>Started on the fielded panels this morning, I profile these on my spindle moulder using an upright jig and a 12 degree cutter. here’s the set up of the jig.. And the result, a nice traditional fielded panel. Here’s Luke my apprentice, always a blaze of activity. The doors need a moulded detail on the […]
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>Oak Wardrobes
>Got a bit of progress on these today starting with the doors, I’ve done all the mortices, and tenons. Then I tried all the joints for a dry fit, and for nice grain matching. I have to say that the Oak boards Boddys sent me are superb, with a really prominent medullary ray fleck pattern on 90% of […]
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>Bits and pieces kind of day
>I have made a start on the oak wardrobes and cabinets today, I cut all of the sheet materials with my track-saw. I’m using Maxcut v2 on my laptop to help with maximizing sheet materials, this is a free download, you just need to re-register every 30 days. First impressions are it’s really easy to use. […]
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>Workshop, a few improvements(well to me).
>Whilst most think that having a very old barn for a cabinet shop is very right and proper, romantic perhaps. Maybe when clients come to visit they feel that their cabinets are made in a nostalgic location, that harkens back to the good old days. The reality is very different, when I decided to start […]
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>Painted Bookcase
>It’s been a while since I updated this Blog, I’ve been on a site for the last few weeks fitting floors, skirting’s, and general carpentry work. I have also been doing a few jobs around the workshop, a new setting out bench, and filling the holes in the concrete(one sprained ankle too many). I will post a few pic’s of […]
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>New Office…..kind of.
>Now, I know you are all going to have a good laugh at my current office, as you can see it consists of a mdf shelf, and a phone. I didn’t allow for a pen and pad, as I figured I could always find them on my bench no problems….how wrong could I be. This has done […]
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Oak Fire Surround.
Oak fire surround. Just thought I’d show you the finished pic’s of the fire surround I made a couple of weeks ago, there was a bit of a delay with the slate, and the woodburner the clients ordered only came in yesterday. Anyway here it is. Clients were very happy and have ordered more work. […]
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>New Commission…maybe
>Today when I went over to my existing clients house, to take a couple photos of the blanket chest(they didn’t want it by the way… my wife is over the moon). But they did call me into the lounge to take a look at their Brandy collection(no I wasn’t asked to test it), now I’ve seen it […]
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