Recent content by lacewood

I am fitting out a pretty large library right now and there is a "secret door" involved....before I started preparing the drawings I did a full size mock up pretty much following the direction that was in the link, after messing with the Rixson hinges a bit it worked perfectly Good luck!

Pretty good tutorial by Gary Katz, great guy and unbelievable carpenter http://www.garymkatz.com/trimtechniques/hidden_pivot_bookcase_install.htm

I have a thermador pro range and during power outage you can only manually light the front right burner

I suppose you could use the 3M PPS cups, I love them...very easy to keep the gun clean, and don't have to worry about cleaning the cup

I think the easiest and cheapest way, if you are going to do it... Buy some 1/2" sheets of micore, have your wife pick some fabric, let the fabric run past the substrate, pull tight and fold the corners like you were wrapping a Christmas present and staple it in. If doing big pieces you may...

Go to a local cabinet shop and ask him to order it for you, I do it for people fairly often....if they are not total jerks I don't charge any mark up. Maybe you can get the same shop to cut, bore and band your pieces for you also.

Lie nielsen skew plane....bought one for my father a couple years ago and he loves it. http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?grp=1274 Or how about a festool drill? http://www.festoolusa.com/products/cordless-drills

I installed something very similar in my cabinet shop, called trans-air....have approx 500 LF of trunk line installed with multiple drops and used the compression type plastic fittings..push them on and tighten. It worked out perfect for me, has been installed for 7 years almost to the day with...

Against a wall the .75 x 6 would probably be fine...as far as where to buy you could try stopping at a local cabinet/woodworking shop, I would think they would be happy to mill and sell you a strip of maple much cheaper then you could buy from a retailer In my shop I buy select hard white maple...

I would probably weld in a piece of pre drilled, countersunk flat stock where the two tops meet to help support the joint, maybe just ease the two meeting edges...and throw in a couple biscuits or spline to keep them aligned. Make sure to drill oversized screw holes, I would use fender washers...

Where abouts in Ma are you, I have a shop in Hyde Park...if you supply the material and a six pack, we can throw the sheets up on the cnc and cut, blind dado and drill in no time. Or I can get the material from my supplier, may save you a few bucks

Bigdav, the kitchen looks great...where did you have that copper hood made?

http://www.used-tools.com/ In Worcester, just like the tool shed...

Just saw these listed on CL, thought someone may be interested....I also browsed through the BMI website and looks like some pretty nice stuff for sale as well. I thought I knew everyone in the Boston area! http://www.bmius.com/p-7130-stanley-vidmar-standard-135-cabinet.aspx EDIT TO ADD CL...

Very cool, thanks!