Whew!

Well, despite my best of intentions, I didn’t do anything yesterday after the cabinets left. I was just kind of ready to take a break….so I did.
Today I clean, but I got some help, a young man who has helped me before is giving me a hand, that’s good. I’m thinking I really need to [...]

Next!

Well, we had to wait until today (Monday) to deliver the cabinets because of rain, but they are gone.  It’s time to shovel out my shop and move on.  Bubinga to rub out, get delivered and tour Good Hope Hardwoods. Photos at the end of the blog.
Got an email asking how we dealt with the [...]

Crash an Burn

Well its Saturday morning, got to get everything ready to leave in the morning, then Im gonna go do a lot of nothing….its been a pretty intense month, and Im feeling it, but hey a couple days down time and I’ll be right back at it,
Monday  we going to rub the Bubinga, maybe head out to [...]

September 26, 2008

Well, still wrapping up finishing and details on the cabinets.  Shop is so full I’m not able to do much until they leave, then I got to clean it up some.  Don’t know what happened yesterday but the blog view almost doubled, that was nice.
When all the cabinets are totally complete, I’ll get ya some [...]

September 25, 2008

Cabinets are about history….some more finishing and things like that. Just wrapping up all of the details, then they leave and get on to the next, which in this case is some filming….actually, a lot of filming. Got some things to do on new tools and all for Woodcraft, that’s a tough job, testing and checking [...]

September 24, 2008

Well, yesterday was fun….made the “Z” battens and painted the bases and got to sand, fun, right?
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Today I will start the final finishes, have to put together the big refrigerator unit and make a wine rack thing. Make some moulding to go around the top cabinets, [...]

I Need to Shut Up

Out on the forum we had a little discussion on how I stabilize rails and stiles on doors, especially long ones with narrow rails and stiles. Here is the Link.
Well…last evening I ran into an issue with one of the doors on these cabinets. One wanted to cup and twist some. Now we did all [...]

Well….It’s Monday

Don’t know why we invented this day, maybe we need to re-think it! I’m running behind on these cabinets but I’m not going to let that change how I do them and while these will have an “Old Antique” look, it’s not an excuse for poor craftsmanship. Unfortunately, that’s a common mistake in making old [...]

How We Doing?

So…how we doing? You liking this blog thing? are you getting anything out of it?
A couple of days ago had some folks drop by, Iain and Jackie, they were from Glasgow, Scotland, not sure how they found us, but it was a pleasant visit, really nice people. We visited a while, toured my shop and [...]

September 19, 2008

Okay, still pluggin’ away on the cabinets. The picture on the left is of a door from the client showing the look and color she wants. It is a “V” groove, old heart pine plank door and has aged naturally and it is made from old recycled wood. It’s a tough color. The door appears [...]