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I spent yesterday in the kitchen. Not cooking, but installing a new stove. I always find it curious how the simplest projects tend to complicate themselves. My next home improvement project is bound to be new counter tops. Anyone have any words of wisdom as to installing them? I have no budget to speak of and will have to go with laminated counters. Ive never installed counter tops and suspect that project will take me a week. Once I get into it, I will probably discover issues that will extend that to two weeks!

Today Ive been working on a flag case. Ill keep you posted on the project, which is a very special one for me. Video Friday, 11-11-11, Veterans Day in America.


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My favorite part of the Global Warning symposium was the talk given by Jade Chang. All though she was not directly associated with any projects shown earlier in the day i believe her speech centralized the main argument put forth by the different speakers through out the day. At the core of Changs talk was the idea that having something that is good for us also be fun or entertaining would make us want to do the right thing. Chang showed a video in witch a group of people made piano stairs in a subway next to an escalator. The purpose of doing these piano stairs was to prove that we are more willing to do something that is good for us, in this case walking up the stairs instead of using the escalator, if it is fun. I think that by making this Climate Clock it would have a similar effect as the piano stairs in terms of shining light on a problem in an entertaining way. I think it would make it easier for an everyday person to understand the effects of global worming if they had a way to visualize the problem and i think that the Climate Clock is a unique way of doing this. I found my self becoming more interested in the effects of global warming just by seeing the different designs. With the project completed for everyone to see i think that people will better understand the problem and be more inclined to do something to help the cause.

My worlds are colliding! Not really, but Im going to make this a double post. Ill also post it to my housebuilding blog. See the sidebar for a link. I just had some Elm milled by Roy and Terry at Sydney Forks Sawmill. This is wood that grew along
Kings Road in Sydney. The butt of this particular specimen measured about 36 inches across. I managed to get some beautiful boards from this tree but the largest logs had a bunch of nails and mystery metal embedded in them so we had to stop sawing them. In case you dont know, metal can make for a pretty grumpy sawyer. I prefer a happy sawyer. The logs we couldnt mill will get used for carving, turning and various other woodworking endeavors before going to the firewood pile. The stacked boards will have to air dry for a year at the very least before being turned into furniture for our house and other projects and commissions.

When my mother-in-law asked me to design a DVD-CD storage cabinet, these plans are what I had originally come up with. It turns out she really only needed to store DVD?s, so the plans were scrapped and gave way to the DVD storage cabinet you?ll see elsewhere on the site.

I was bummed that she only wanted a simple shelf, because I had come up with a kinda clever way of locating the adjustable shelves to fit various combinations of CD?s and DVD?s. Although I never had a chance to actually build the original shelf, Im publishing it here for those who might find it useful.
Material There isn?t much to say about materials. It?s designed with the same white melamine as the DVD cabinet, with white PVC edge banding. As with many of the projects youll find here, it could also be built out of plywood or even solid lumber.

I did learn something new about edge banding while designing the DVD-CD storage cabinet and building the DVD shelf. Most of my experience with banding has been operating automatic glue pot edgebanders in a commercial shop. During my very first job in a cabinet shop I also had some exposure to a simple table-top hot air bander, but that?s about it.

Recently I bought a used Virutex hand-held hot air edgebander (apparently the same machine is marketed under the Grizzly brand name). I?m accustomed to high quality PVC edge banding and was quite disappointed to discover that virtually all of the pre-glued edge banding on the market is cheap, lightweight vinyl. No wonder hot air edge banding has such a poor reputation!

I contacted my favorite edge banding supplier, Frama-Tech, and they are able to pre-glue any of their stock PVC colors for a small fee. That?s pretty awesome considering they?re incredible at matching even the most obscure laminate color. Of course my first order of PVC was white for the DVD-CD storage cabinet but it could have been just about any color I wanted.

I?m used to 15/16? edge banding and it worked very well in the Virutex bander. Having a bit of extra width was helpful in making sure it completely covered the edge of the board when my hand wasn?t running very steady. I used a FastCap Quad Pro Trimmer on the edges and a Flush Cut Trimmer for the ends. It went very quickly and you can?t tell the difference between the hand-held bander?s work and that from a $25,000 automatic glue pot bander!

Hardware Other than some small size differences, the major difference between the original DVD-CD storage cabinet and the plain old DVD shelf is in the shelf pin hole location and hardware. Initially, I wanted the CD storage shelf to be configurable for several combinations of CD?s or DVD?s. Regular 32mm system holes don?t always line up nicely for storing items of a real specific size. So I placed holes in a modestly sized cabinet such that the resulting shelf spacing would be a ?perfect? fit for storing CD?s, DVD?s, or VHS cassettes.

In the original design I had figured on using a low profile, concealed shelf support. The main purpose for this was to allow the shelf to be centered on the pin holes rather than sitting above the holes on shelf pins. I also liked the clean look of no exposed shelf supports. This requires slot to be cut in the ends of the shelves to conceal the shelf support.

When I switched to the simple DVD shelf, I also simplified the construction by eliminating the concealed support in favor of an angled steel shelf support. The angled support didn?t require the extra groove in the ends of the shelves, but still centered the shelf on the pin holes. I left the concealed support in the original DVD-CD storage cabinet plans just so you could see a nice alternative method for supporting adjustable shelves.

Drawing File Even though the DVD shelf design turned out nice, I still like this design better. Hopefully you?ll enjoy it too. You can view the drawings by clicking on the link below. If youd like to download a copy to your computer, right click then "save-as". Either way, youll need the Adobe reader to view the file.

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I googled Greene and Greene and founf a great website with all there work and images archived (http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/index.html). Then I read about the brothers named Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene who are infamous in the architectural and furniture design world. The site has a ton of information about how they became so famous. Their work was inspired by the English Arts and Crafts Movement and they contributed greatly to the American Arts and Crafts Movement in the early part of the 20th century. Most of the houses they designed were commissioned by private owners in California. Some of their more famous houses are The Gamble, Thorsen, and Blacker houses in Pasadena California.
As I continued my search I found a list of all of their work in the same archive. I clicked on the Miss Annie Blacker House link and found a brief explanation of Annie Black and the house. All I could find were pictures of the blue prints and plans. Since I was more interested in finding picture of their furniture than blue prints I went back and googled greene and greene furniture. Unfortunately I was only able to find recreations. But I was able to find out that the Los Angeles County Museum has about a dozen pieces of G&G furniture so I went to their website. I found the furniture in the decorative arts and design collection. I particularly liked this table from the Blacker house . It was made in 1907 of teak and ebony. All of the furniture seems pretty simple on the outside but Im sure that none of it was easy to make. I like the natural quality to it. It doesnt look all that fancy but it is made of two exotic woods. It looks like it would be used as a desk or sewing table.
I also found a very famous light fixture done by the brothers for the same house. This piece of furniture looks much more complex than the table. Its made of Honduras mahogany, ebony, leaded glass, and leather. Its a light box that hangs from a ceiling plate. Quite gorgeous. I can see it in a house hanging over a kitchen table. the only downfall to this fixture is the chord that comes from the ceiling plate to the light box. I love the details of ebony and leather. Im glad I was able to find some stuff I liked.

Catherine

Intarsia has always fascinated me and Ive been meaning to try it out for years. I like the artistic nature of it and the limitless possibilities of "painting" with wood.

I want to thank everyone over on my Facebook page this week who helped me out with all sorts of tips and hints. Especially Steve Carmichael who had recently attended an intarsia class and sent me the notes he took.

I found the process to be pretty simple, but a lot of work. Plan on a lot of time sawing and sanding. If you would like to try out my scarecrow, download the pattern here. Mostly, try to cut exactly on the lines and take it very slowly with your scroll saw.






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Steve Carmichaels list of helpful intarsia tips and notes:

• Intarsia is cutting pieces from separate parts of wood and joining them together. Segmentation is cutting the entire design from one piece of wood, like a puzzle, where the wood grain matches through all the pieces of the project. You can make segmentation project look like an intarsia project by painting the pieces separately then gluing them together.
• Cut as close as possible on the line to ensure good fits.
• Use a soft drum sander on a drill press with to round all edges and avoid having 90 degree edges. This can help hide any gaps. They sell sanding drums that are soft and spongey...flex sanding drum I think.
• When adjoining pieces are cut from the same wood, cut them in different grain directions to add contrast.
• Cut all pieces out first and number each piece on the back. For tiny pieces that are too small to write on, stick them onto blue tape and write the number on the tape.
• Glue the pieces together starting from the center of the design and work your way to the outside edges. This way any mistakes will throw off pieces only half the distance. For example, if your project is 10" wide and you start from the center, any mistakes will only affect 5" of the project. If you started on the left side and worked your way to the right, any mistakes will affect all 10" of he width of the project.
• Use Aleenes Tacky Glue to glue pieces together. It sets fast and it dries clear.
• To glue pieces together, lay down a print out of the design. Cover it with wax paper. Glue pieces together laying them on top of the design as you go. Any glue squeeze out will not stick to the wax paper.
• When done gluing pieces together, sand the back to remove any glue and to level uneven pieces.
• Cut a piece of thin plywood backer board that is inset 1/8 inch from the edges of the design. Mark the location for a keyhole where it will best hang on a nail, if you plan to hang it on the wall. Cut the keyhole in the plywood, then trace the keyhole on the back of the glued project. Use a forstner bit to drill a recess in the back of the project that will be covered by the keyhole, so that when you glue it to the backerboard, a nail head can go into the keyhole for hanging. Glue the project to the backerboard with Titebond II.
• Use different colors of wood and different thicknesses of wood for effect and spray clear coat on top.  
• When cutting small pieces on the scroll saw, use one of those business card refrigerator magnets for zero clearance so the piece does not fall into the hole. Just cut the magnet about half way through and stop so it covers the hole in the table.
• Use woodgrain and different species with only a clear coat, along with different thicknesses of wood, and let the wood naturally create the 3D effect
• Use a heavy bag of sand or similar material so it can conform to the uneven thickness of pieces in the project. The bag conforms to the uneven face and applies pressure to both the high and low pieces.

Heres a simple shop cabinet I built to store small cut-offs. Those pieces of wood that I save for all sorts of reasons. I used 3/4" plywood for most of the cabinet. Easily adaptable for any storage use.





New saw.

So yeah...I got a new table saw thanks to a bunch of really kind people who got together to buy me one. Cant wait to use it! Im not sure what to do with my old one now. Kinda thinking about saving it for cutting crappy wood...maybe pressure treated lumber for yard projects that dont need to be precise and tend to mangle saws. Just need to find the space.




Shop pics. 

My dad has been visiting this week. His help was enormous in getting the cabinet built. Im not sure I would have completed it in time to post the video without him. Thanks Dad! He has also been running around taking pictures of the build and the new saw arriving:

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