Recent content by sfanale

Immediately after this last gift, someone else announced their retirement, so I was sent back to the drawing board. The team decided to purchase some hand made Margareta glasses and I built a custom box to house them. Started on paper of course: I decided to try antoher new to me technique...

here is the final product of the CNC cutting board: I also made some small coasters--CNCed as well. However, these were machined to fit a custom made piece of aluminum. After being anodized, we lasered images into the inserts: and the whole family together:

Busy working and finishing this little project. As usual, something that was a small idea turned into a big affair. We recently got a big boy 5x10' CNC at work and this was the perfect project to put that to use. The walnut blank in the last post went to the shop and turned into this...

moving right onto my next project, another going away present... this time for our institute director. Going to essentially be an endgrain cutting board, but CNC milled with our company logo and some wording. Just got the blank glued up today: Now I do some rough sanding and turn it over to...

Near final update on this. I purposely designed the right cavity of the cabinet to house this new Husky silent air compressor. I went back and forth on California Air Tools vs this Husky. I am sure the Cal Air Tools is higher quality overall, but at more than twice the cost... I was...

thanks! Yea, not a mistake I plan to make twice!

I think you’ve got the ticket right there. I cut them exactly the width minus slides and probably missed a hair over... Definitely something to practice. FYI, I was using this whiteside bit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012JGBX8/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Massive overkill for edge...

Finished the drawers faces and mounted up with handles: some lessons learned from this build: Overall, I built everything too tight. The drawers were about 1/16" too wide for the carcass, so I had to shave them down to get the slides to glide properly. I also only left myself...

Continued the edge banding last night and while waiting for the glue to dry, this happened: I cut the flip top cart in half! Over the last years, I realized the design just wasn’t functional for me. The side opening drawers were the biggest design flaw, I can’t understand what I was thinking...

Started edge banding the drawer faces. I start with whatever scraps I have around and try to find a piece where the face grain is tall enough to cut out 1” wide parts. That is to say, if I had a 3/4” s4s board of walnut @ 6” wide, I rip it into 6x ~1” strips, then turn those onto the 3/4”...

Funny you should ask! I was trying to post the last few days, but the button to upload has been missing. It’s back so I’ll do it now. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

Hmmm I figured it was perhaps something like that. I do like using the iPhone app because then I don't have to use the 3rd party for photos--I can directly upload photos form my phone IN APP...when the feature is there of course... Makes sense there might be a total daily site upload limit and...

HA! No, I think the grain just looks a bit like it accidentally. In fact, I realize its definitely not grain matched because I just cut long strips off a full sheet, then as I chopped those strips up into drawers, I pretty much randomized the order. I think I will match up the drawer faces...

Got around to installing most of the drawers today. I managed to somehow fit them too tight on the left side and needed to shave down the sides of some with my jointer... that was a headache: You can see that middle one was my first pass and I had the jointer set too deep, went right through...

Shifting my focus across the room to the other side where I want to build out my miter station. I’m building a cabinet to match the miter cart, but 4’x2’ with mostly drawers and a spot to house an air compressor or other large items. I’ve finished the carcass and put two coats of poly on it...