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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/02/2018 at 15:39 • Filed to: None

For the kitchen. The stiles are machined from some tight-grained surface-dry two-by. (Shop Teacher loves it when I talk dirty to him...) The panels are some 5.2mm stuff I found at Lowe’s that’s $15/sheet. The fir doesn’t machine the greatest, but it’s all going to be painted a deep cranberry color. I plan to ease the edges just a bit, and take the orbital sander to it with 150-grit discs, and work on the end joints a bit. I did the grooving with the table saw because too cheap and lazy to buy a router bit. I’m going to try water curing glue on the next one. The panels are floating.

DISCUSSION (22)

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 15:53

Looks good from here.

diplodicus > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 16:07

Ahh this is why you needed 4 tape measures.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 18:53

And I can’t drive a nail straight. Pappy would be proud.

Longtime Lurker > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 20:18

I read the headline, saw the lead picture. For some reason I thought you were mounting this on the top of your engine and cutting a hole in your hood. It’s been a long day.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 20:38

Not too shabby. I’m curious - did you plane everything down to the same thickness after everything was jointed?

You said painted, but do you mean stained?

EDIT: I think I have that same table saw...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
11/02/2018 at 20:47

I'd have lots of things to show him and to tell him about.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Longtime Lurker
11/02/2018 at 20:48

I could imaging myself doing something like that, but I wouldn't use Douglas fir

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/02/2018 at 20:48

I milled the stiles, then assembled the cabinet door.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 20:57

I've thought about trying to make my own cabinet doors for some cupboards for the garage. Maybe some day. My current project is a dining room chair out of walnut.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/02/2018 at 21:16

Ooh; I'd like to see that.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > diplodicus
11/02/2018 at 23:33

But I only use one of them at a time.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/02/2018 at 23:51

Nicely done!

shop-teacher > BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/02/2018 at 23:52

I have that saw at home as well. It's a quality piece.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/03/2018 at 01:09

For sure. At my current rate it'll likely be a few more weeks before it is done.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > shop-teacher
11/03/2018 at 01:11

IIt was either the DeWalt or the Bosch. It was the rack and pinion fence that sold me on the DeWalt. So far it has been decent. The only thing I miss is having both metric and imperial measurements on the built in ruler.

shop-teacher > BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/03/2018 at 07:48

Yeah, the rack and pinion is what sold me on the DeWalt. I never use metric when I'm wood working, so I never even noticed that.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > shop-teacher
11/03/2018 at 09:23

I only generally use the metric system when working with smaller things. M illimeters are so much easier to work with for small stuff, at least for me.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
11/03/2018 at 10:32

I've had that saw 15 years or more. Very satisfactory.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/03/2018 at 16:20

I've had mine for about 10 years. My dad has had that one for nearly 20 years. It's a good tool. When it came out, it blew all the other portable table saws away.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/03/2018 at 20:03

I did a dry fit of most of it today, after doing a bunch of work on it:

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > BaconSandwich is tasty.
11/03/2018 at 20:16

Do the feet make a square footprint or are the front two feet wider than the back two?

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/03/2018 at 21:59

It's a square footprint, patterned off one of our old dining room chairs that broke. I still might taper the seat to be wider toward the front though.