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Title: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 02, 2007, 05:31:59 PM

I'm making my wife an armoire for christmas and I have to say I think its turning out pretty cool.
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dovetail drawers
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it will be a dark stained exterior with a bare wood finished interior to show off all the intricate joint work. It will be all a very deep brown when the door/drawers are closed and then very light when they are open
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flush front drawers
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panel doors
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french swinging doors
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Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 02, 2007, 05:36:45 PM

it looks black but will finish a deep brown
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Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: HAWK on December 02, 2007, 05:44:48 PM

Nice work.

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: funsizeracing on December 02, 2007, 06:29:34 PM

Wow. :thumb:

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Post by: tlc on December 02, 2007, 08:23:34 PM

Very nice work.

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: r1owner on December 02, 2007, 08:40:28 PM

Nice work!

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: Super Dave on December 03, 2007, 06:20:21 AM

I would have used a lot more duct tape and RTV. I love my wife, also. I would have thrown in some hose clamps.

:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

Um, nice job!

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 03, 2007, 11:03:20 AM

its got a lot of glue if that makes you feel any better

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: Court Jester on December 03, 2007, 02:21:32 PM

I was a plant manager with Kimball several years ago and learned a bit about wood working. That looks really really good. you've done a great job from what i can see in the pics. be sure to post more pics when it's done.

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: EX_#76 on December 03, 2007, 02:28:27 PM

I am impressed!!! Nice Dovetail joints

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 03, 2007, 02:48:55 PM

I'm lucky I have my grandpa to teach me the tricks of the trade........

and that he lets me use his tools
He said I was the first person other than himself that he's let use his dovetail jig

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: steve p on December 04, 2007, 05:30:33 PM

Guy has some skills. Look like a nice job. Did you use a Dado joint on the sides of the cabinets or biscuits to hold the drawer shelves? Kinda hard to tell from the photo. And did you use a Oak veneered MDF for your cabinet body? We are building alot of very similar stuff on our project right now. Looks great. :thumb:

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 05, 2007, 11:56:15 AM

the doors are Dadoed and it is oak veneer with a 2" solid oak face plate thats got biscuts in it and pocket screwed to the sides(Its too expensive to make it all out of lumber :) .) The drawer shelves we actually used a router to make the grove with a jig we made to keep everything straight in the side and dadoed the shelves on both sides to make the tounge to fit.

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: Jack_Brock on December 05, 2007, 03:58:53 PM

Looks good, too bad G-Pa doesn't do fiberglass :biggrin:

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 05, 2007, 04:10:15 PM

tell me about it

smartass

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: steve p on December 05, 2007, 05:28:04 PM

Nice job, looks like it will be a family airloom for generations to come.

Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: wolf44 on December 21, 2007, 06:26:03 PM

well its all done. The stain didn't quite turn out how I wanted it to. We were getting a bit of pick up from the varnish. Never had that happen before. Well now it just looks fatigued ::) I still think it looks cool
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Title: Re: any woodworkers in the house?
Post by: Court Jester on December 21, 2007, 06:40:42 PM

That looks really good.
You wanna make another for me?

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