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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Make a negative mold sanding block of the casing out of bondo? Spray adhesive some 80X sandpaper onto the block. A lot of elbow grease but you get 100% transfer to the profile.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Edge & dam_ near everyone on this tread - you are inspirational.
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MisterE
climber
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Jan 13, 2014 - 10:04am PT
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Built a desktop and some shelving for the hippy joint my wife works at.
Nothing special, but they love it.
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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Jan 13, 2014 - 11:23pm PT
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Just finished a little Craftsman style coffee table for my son and his new wife. He helped with the finish, blending a mix of English Chestnut with Sedona Red for a fairly nice color for the piece. He sprayed the lacquer too.
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 13, 2014 - 11:32pm PT
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Beautiful table, bajaandy!
Mister E, I can't tell from the pics , but what's going on at the rounder corners? Looks like a black accent under the curve?
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jan 14, 2014 - 03:08am PT
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A German Geshutzwagen Tiger Self-Propelled Gun with a 17.2cm Kanone, late War II, with three-tone ambush camouflage:
Now to put it in a diorama with visiting German officers arriving in a Mercedes Staff Car:
The pursuit of the utterly useless (but you sure learn a lot along the way)
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Jan 14, 2014 - 07:59am PT
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Nice work Bruce Morris. The painted details are stunning.
MrE, the shelves and workspace you made is awesome. That's a nice fit with that weird corner to deal with.
bajaandy,
That coffee table looks like a small version of my grandfather's library table which he used as a desk for many years as a newspaper editor. You did a great job, and the wood figuring is beautiful.
So, here's my latest contribution to my favorite ST thread:
IGUANA STAIRS
For inspiration, a local iguana, Verde, was in need of something to get her from her resting shelf to her food on the floor of her habitat enclosure. A new person involved in her care trimmed her nails rendering her unable to climb. She was being handled several times a day to prevent her from falling and I rushed to make something that could help.
I decided to build it folk-art / hobo crate style using pine and wood screws.
Our cats were convinced this was new furniture for them.
The installation was a tight fit. In fact, I was ashamed that I had to trim 3/4 inch from the back edge. That edge is the bottom of the stairs facing the camera in the photo, above. I also cut away the upper left corner to fit under the ledge (that was okay by design).
I hope to learn Verde is figuring out how to use her new stairway. She was very confused after getting back into her enclosure.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Jan 14, 2014 - 10:41am PT
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I think your cat probably knew the furniture was not for them, but were hinting to you that THEY would also like such a piece.....(Kitty says "meow- HINT HINT!!!")
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jan 14, 2014 - 10:46am PT
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Just stunning everyone. Now lizards are getting custom furniture….who knew!?? I think it's great. Just beautiful craftsmanship. So much better smelling too, than machine shop oil. Oh well…
Susan
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 14, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
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Now lizards are getting custom furniture….who knew!??
Susan, they have been lo these many sad years in the US House of Representatives.
Mr E, them hippies are always impressed with power tools and things done straight and level.
Bajaandy, very nice design and execution.
Bill, didn't anyone ever tell you not to spoil yer lizard? I just hope
my wife doesn't see that and say:
"Look what that dude makes for his lizard! And you think I should be
happy that you vacuum the house?"
edit:
Bruce, I meant to commend you on those fantastic models. As an old model
builder I am most impressed. The paint jobs are state-of-the-art!
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Jan 14, 2014 - 01:29pm PT
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Reilly,
Ha! No. Not my lizard, but I love her just the same. My wife has cared for Verde years and when we learned she was having trouble due to the nail trimming I got busy.
Happiegrrrl, I'm pretty sure you're right. Our cats were having a lot of fun with this thing, and my wife was thinking my next project is a uber-cat-condo.
Ooops...forgot to compliment Edge up thread on this page.
Everything you show us is just exquisite. I enjoyed reading about how you trained yourself by personal study and by participation in the craft guilds. Thanks for sharing the pic of the hall table.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jan 14, 2014 - 01:36pm PT
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Reilly said Susan, they have been lo these many sad years in the US House of Representatives.
VERY VERY GOOD ONE!
Susan
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MisterE
climber
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Jan 14, 2014 - 08:19pm PT
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Mister E, I can't tell from the pics , but what's going on at the rounder corners? Looks like a black accent under the curve?
I just did an upside down sea-rail for the edging for support. I don't have the resources for bending, so I just edge-banded the curves.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 14, 2014 - 09:17pm PT
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Yay for fancy pet-steps!
SOOO happy to finally have Mr E install a desk in my office after a supposed-to-be-"3-weeks" turned into a 9-month no-office-remodeling-cluster-fvck. It's a very tight space once all the stock gets piled up in there. The rounded corners keep us from bruising our hips maneuvering stuff around.. not to mention it just looks nice.
As a side note: Hippies should not be allowed to play with concrete.
The desk is dead level, but the damn floor slopes almost 1 1/2 inches towards the corner. My fancy knee chair doesn't go high enough. I'll have to scuttle it. Meh.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 14, 2014 - 09:30pm PT
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JTM, take yer whinin' to the First World Problems thread. :;-).
I'm sure Mssr E will make all well.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Jan 14, 2014 - 09:30pm PT
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Wow. SteveA and Edge, I am in awe.
Maybe another 20 years when I retire I'll have the time to get 1/10th as good.
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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Jan 15, 2014 - 12:09am PT
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Yeah! What SteveP said. That's some fantastic work up thread. And I really dig that tank model! Cool stuff.
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Jan 18, 2014 - 03:59pm PT
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Amazing stuff here. Also, I was hoping for some advice. I'm looking for a non-sliding, compound miter saw. I'm just building things like fences, the occasional cabinet the garage, some molding, no real finish work. Any suggestions? Would I miss the capacity of a sliding saw.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 18, 2014 - 04:01pm PT
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Would I miss the capacity of a sliding saw.
Don't know if that is a statement or a question. If the former then I
agree. If the latter then you have to decide, as in climbing, how wyde
you want to go. Most siding is about 6" so a non-slider would do the trick.
Makita makes a sweet little slider you can pick up with one hand
that cuts up to about 8-9"?
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