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The Bois Shop
A video blog documenting the progress of the projects in my Newton, MA wood shop.
Updated: 3 hours 33 min ago
A photo finish
I think I made this project far more complicated than it needed to be. But despite my mistakes and design changes, I think I actually ended up with something at least presentable in the end. I built this piece from the beginning to show at The Furniture Project, which Eli Cleveland and crew put on every year to promote hand crafted furniture to the public. Hopefully I did the show (and an unsuspecting walnut tree) proud.
Sadly, this marks the end of this project, but have a few concepts already in mind for the next one. In the meantime, I'm thinking a proper shop tour is long overdue, and it might be the perfect intermission to the next big thing.
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Sadly, this marks the end of this project, but have a few concepts already in mind for the next one. In the meantime, I'm thinking a proper shop tour is long overdue, and it might be the perfect intermission to the next big thing.
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Don't get your drawers in a bunch
I have to admit, in the last episode I think I made more mistakes in a few steps than I've ever made in a full project before. Improvising on a piece of furniture isn't always the best approach. So in this installment, I made a real effort to do whatever I could to eliminate mistakes.
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Because the drawers for this table go into the sides, rather than the front, there's a lot less structure to build runners and kickers into. Normally you have the back to anchor the guts of the drawer guides. So in this case, I had to fit drawer guides into the front and back aprons. And then manage to get the false drawer fronts in place.
I didn't expect this part of the project to be particularly challenging. I was in for a bit of a surprise.
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Not your average drawers
This episode is all about gluing up the carcass to allow me to then measure and fit the drawers. While this seemed like a fairly simple phase of the project, I still managed to walk into yet another brainless blunder. In the last episode, I learned first-hand how it can be challenging to "design on the fly". I never drew up any plans or built a model for the project because it seemed fairly straightforward. Well in this episode, I pretty much convinced myself that I need to draw up design plans for EVERY project, no matter how simple. I think even my next door stopper will have a full 3D model and full scale mock-up ;)
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