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Nice job on all the furniture repairs/refinishing! Are these all going into the house, or are you supplying an antique store?

Are you looking for something embossed like that one? Or do you just want a printed metal plate?

Perhaps think in terms of how many hands are involved - one pair of hands (as of Kay) is definitely handmade. Hundreds or thousands of hands involved (as in space shuttle) is definitely not handmade even though the product is produced in very little quantity with lots of manual labor. I...

.0005 is 5 ten thousandth of an inch

Since you have elevation changes in the area, is there any possibility of a second floor apartment that opens at ground level?

Thanks for the info. I have an old Kick-n-Go I would like to restore, but I believe the wheel hubs are plastic - going to have to head to the barn and take some measurements

Well, you both are probably more organized than me - my "spare" allen keys reside in a snap-closure pocket cut off an old shirt. And before anyone suggests just throwing them away, I have countless times found a use for some of the spares.

Nice job on redoing those wheels! Where does one find replacement tires for such wheels?

Here in Broken Arrow, we don't often see "winter wonderland". The forecast was for 2 to 4 inches. I didn't get out to shovel the drive and take pics until after it had warmed enough to start melting. Based on the amount of melting that had already occurred, I would say we got 7" to 8". With...

Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you heal fast and well!

Thanks, gentlemen. I guess what caught me off guard about this is the old cabinet was at least 3 times heavier and covered a deeper and wider footprint - and I never detected any leaning or off level on it. When I brought the new cabinet in and set it down, I noticed the lean at once and...

When I moved my new cabinet into place and loaded it with the electronics, I noticed it seemed to be leaning towards the wall. I had a small torpedo level in the house and used it to confirm that the top was about 1/4 inch lower at the rear than the front. My first thought was that I must have...

Thank you both! Hope everyone is off to a great start to a new year!

I completed phase 7 of this project when I finished assembling my new cabinet. I ordered a router bit to rabbet the back openings for the back panels. I then cut a radius on each back panel corner rather than using a chisel to square off the opening. I finished phase 8 when I completed...

Continuing the Armoire repurpose project: I got the 2 back panels cut, holes drilled, and a coat of varnish on to finally end phase 5. I continued working on phase 8 which is the construction of a small DVD cabinet. All done except a back panel. To complete the project, I needed to order...

Merry Christmas to all!

I love sugar cookies. Both my mother and my wife used to make sugar cookies with green, mint flavored frosting and decorated with red hots. Been about 20 years since I had any. One of the Xmas traditions I really miss. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Phase 5 of this project was to cut all the salvage pieces needed to assemble a new cabinet. Previously reported this phase as done, but I forgot about back panels for the cabinet. The back panel of the armoire was only 1/8 inch thick - didn't know you could even get plywood that thin. This...

Man, look at all the mowing you have saved yourself!

Back to the Armoire repurposing project. Since most of the material I am salvaging is 3/4 plywood, I needed to add some form of edge banding to make the intersections between the top and sides of the cabinet. Since I had a couple of pieces of large trim that I could cut some 1" by 1" pieces out...