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wood working part deux - 5/9/2007 9:35:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I made this crate because nothing, but nothing collects more dust than a shelf full of bottles. I was seriously considering melting them all down and pouring one big bottle. I still have plenty displayed in the open and I do live on a dirt lane, but the dusting is cut in half.
Made of red oak, framed plate glass shelves, and three halogens at the top that actually shine through to the bottom shelf. Not a piece of plywood, screw or nail to be seen, which i regretted later. A half inch oak plywood back would have saved a few bucks and cut the build time a bit. The thing went without hardware for weeks until I found the right latch and hinges at the Brimfield Fair. Pulled my hair out installing the upper panes of glass in the doors. Broke more than a few and was giggling like a madman driving across the city for the fourth or fifth time to the not so local hardware store. All told, lumber, glass, lights and hardware it cost a few pennies under 700 just to keep the dust at bay.
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RE: woodworkinjg part deux - 5/9/2007 9:40:28 PM   
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RE: wood working part deux - 5/9/2007 9:52:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Gorgeous craftsmanship. You do have it bad, don't you? I have been looking for an antique glassed hutch to put my more cherished one in too. Maybe, this year I will get that woodworking shop I have been waiting for since the children were born. I think I will keep looking for the right one to buy. 

Nice bottles by the way. I have been waiting to get an eyeball on them.
Joel

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RE: woodworkinjg part deux - 5/10/2007 1:08:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Beautiful Cabinet work Richard! I am truly impressed. Being a wood worker myself, I can see the hours of work you put into it. And thanks for the show of some of your bottles as well. Cabinetry is the category of woodworking I like the most, although I have been running a little rogue the past several years making things that is causing some people close to me to begin questioning my sanity. I have been butchering wood off and on now for the past twenty five years or so. I am planning on removing a wall between the kitchen and an adjoining room this summer,  doubling the size of the kitchen. I built my own raised paneled kitchen cabinets when we first moved here. I plan to build my own raised panel cabinets this time around as well, thinking toward the line of either oak or maple, haven't decided yet.  Will probably add a tile floor as well. A lot of work and little time to do it, I think I can swing it though by end of summer. And Joel, know what you mean about the wood shop. Never had one myself either until just a couple of years ago. Finally was able to build a 20 by 24 addition onto the back of the garage a couple of years ago, and then like a fool, filled it with my tools as well as boxes of junk. I know there is a table saw, planer, radial arm saw, as well as a jointer planer in there somewhere, but not have been able to find it up till a couple of weeks ago. Trying to get all the junk out of there so I can get serious about what I am wanting to do this summer. Do not ever become a pack rat, you will regret it all your life !! I started out collecting bottles, and about twenty years ago, I raised up my ugly head, looked around, and said,,,, I am going to collect everything ! Don't ever do that. I hope I can get my other computer fixed soon, so I can get of lot of what I like onto my site. I have a gas & oil collection, over 100 vintage metal lunch, vintage radios, toys of all  kinds, cast iron trains and so forth. Thinking about getting rid of all of it but my bottles, but may try and get it all posted for viewing before doing so.  Richard, this is the last project I did that has people looking sort of funny at me around here. I did not think too much about it though, that is till I started getting the same treatment from the MIsses.......... 3' 7 1/2" long in the closed position, pine handles, yellow poplar blades, inlaid walnut bolsters and logo, working wood springs, blades formed out by hand on a four inch belt sander. Had to make the springs three different time before coming up with the right pieces of wood to use that would not split when the blades were opened. Had to make the primary blade twice door to stupidity, got in a hurry in other words. Have quite a few hours tied up in it as well. At the present I am putting together a wooden straight razor, about the same length. Yes,,,, I know,,,,, what the devil is wrong with me......... I do not believe there is too much wrong with me though. I turned down three hundred for the knife last year at the Springfield show, while showing it to a friend of mine who said there was no way that I had made anything like that after I had told him I made one at the show beforehand. Then I was told I was a fool for not selling it, but my oldest Son said he wanted it someday, so I guess it will go to him when I cross over.

By the way, hope I do not scare anyone by posting my ugly mug !!






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RE: wood working part deux - 5/10/2007 5:24:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		So that's what you've been up to the past couple of years!!!

Very nice, indeed...

Ron

PS... If you ever get wind of one of those figural hot air balloons again, I want one!


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RE: wood working part deux - 5/10/2007 9:32:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well thank you boyz! I must say I'm beaming with pride  
Build the shop Joel. At the very least it's a great place to to hide and drink a brewski.

Leo I just have to look at that knife and i smile, I know the work that went into it. I did a pine project with panels raised on the table saw. I'll post it if I can find the motivation, gettin lazy these days.

I remember that bottle Ronnyboy! Clear glass, big basket, loads of detail. A French piece? Worlds Fair maybe? I knew at one time I think, lol gettin old. 'll make it my mission to find one sir. Year or two tops.
Speaking of balloons, i still say my design for the T's was better. Wish I could find the file, i'd make my own shirt lol. It seems to have been removed from the board, bummer.

Thanks again fellas, Sparky.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/11/2007 12:23:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		And Joel , if you build the shop, and decide to go out there and drink some brewskis, do not run the equipment ! I learned a hard lesson doing that once........I love to go out into mine sometimes and just sit back in a chair and smell the sawdust and drink a few cold ones now and then as Lobey stated, a good place to go off by one's self. Unless that is it is possible to be out heading for a dump instead ...

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/11/2007 12:29:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to see it Richard, always like to see the creations of others, allot of time gives me ideas to something else. I bought a nice set of Feud stile, and raised panel cutters last year, and have not tried them out yet, getting the urge though. Of course it is fairly easy to make a raised panels on the table saw without expensive cutter sets.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/11/2007 6:33:10 AM   
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still say my design for the T's was better. Wish I could find the file, i'd make my own shirt lol. It seems to have been removed from the board, bummer.


You mean OUR design, don't you??? As I recall, you had the brilliant idea of putting a bottle in a balloon rig... But it was my refinement to make it a fire grenade... I thought that last composition you posted was, in the words of those scallywag Guiness brothers: BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/11/2007 6:40:40 AM   
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It seems to have been removed from the board, bummer.


You're right, Rich...

This was the link:

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/11/2007 3:22:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		That is one nice cabinet, Rich. Dust is also one of my worst enemies . I have my good bottles in a small enclosed cabinet, but tons of stuff sitting out. My house has wide woodwork over the windows and doorways, which makes for nice bottle shelves. The problem is, I don't think to dust them very often, and it's a huge pain in the a$$ to take the bottles down to do it. One of these days, I'll buy or build a nice big cabinet. ~Jim

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/11/2007 11:50:56 PM   
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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 1:07:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		here ya go LC, old school raised panels. I believe that was my first chip carving attempt.
Lobes.




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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 1:21:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a Tavern Table, I built a few years ago, in Curly Maple.




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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 1:48:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Beautiful work Zane ! I have not  attempted to make any kind of a table as of yet.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 1:51:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another beauty Richard, like it better than the other cabinet. Send me a pattern with measurements !! I especially like the way you joined the bottom pedestle with dovetail joints.
   I just sold my dove tail jig about four months ago, never used it once since the day I had bought it. Wish I had kept it now, will most likely get another one at a later date.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 7:59:48 PM   
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Here's a Tavern Table, I built a few years ago, in Curly Maple.


beauty Zane! I've wanted to make a table for years. not very handy with a lathe though, haven't touched one since highschool. nice tiger.
Lobes.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 8:04:18 PM   
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Send me a pattern with measurements !!


If you really want the plans Leo old boy let me know. I'm sure there around here someplace. Email me and I'll track 'em down.
your humble servant,
Lobey.

ps.. cut those god forsaken tails by hand. first and last time i assure you.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 9:08:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to have a set of plans for that cabinet Richard. I have tried to do hand cut dovetails off an on for years. Got them to fit pretty good a couple of times, all the other times done a pitiful job. That is another thing you have to have your head on straight when attempting to do so also.

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RE: wood working part deux - 5/16/2007 9:32:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Regretfully, our house is quite small. To be able to display some of my bottles, I built three of these units 4 1/2 " deep, and hung them in my hallway. This is a pretty good setup for any one with little space to utilize, plus you can display items on the top of the wall cabinet as well. I wish I had  made them one solid unit instead of three separate units. I did it this way in case that in the future I might want to use them in other areas of the house.






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