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Then, "Passing Through", a balanced kinetic sculpture with interacting elements that glide around slowly in delightful patterns with the motion of ambient air in a room.
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I used all 1/4" poplar in 2"-4" strips from Home Depot. Anything wider than this was heavily bowed. This is the general layout of the magazine box - many 2" strips would be glued up edge-to-edge into panels for the sides, and a few 4" panels would become the back, front, and bottom faces. In the background, several stacks of wood are intended to become the small boxes for the opposite side cabinet.
The boxes are now "Windsor Haze." They look quite "country," and very similar to lots of things mom has picked up over the years.
I went over just about every surface with several grits of sand paper, getting it down to 400 grit by the end for the outer surfaces of the larger panels.
I've labored over how to make knobs of the right size, texture, finish, and style for this thing. Mom is into acorns, stars, pinecones, leaves, and many other design elements, so I've decided to try to create my own knobs that she'll love. This is a surprise element in the design. If it doesn't work, I'll just resort to some store-bought stuff that looks nice. These are my practice knobs - although a tad pricey ($7.29US for the one on the left) - and I will be using the many bits in my router toolbox, along with the metal-carving, and engraving bits above, and my cut off wheels, and bench grinder, and mini lathe to shape something I like.
The plan then is to use my vibratory tumbler to clean the knobs up a bit, and then acid-etch them in muriatic acid, which I've had sitting around for a year now (PCB etching project). I'm not sure how that will all work out, but have read up a bit, and cobbled together a process plan. I'm hoping it will blacken the brass (or bronze if the two on the right are bronze), and allow me to polish only the high points back to a more golden hue. We'll see... The fun is in the exploration, and discovery.
Here I've already done the glue-up on the bottom panel, which I chose to do first, as it was the uglier of the two. I chose the best-matched patterns for the top, leaving lesser-matches for the bottom panel. I figured as it was my first attempt at biscuit joining, and gluing up larger panels from smaller planks, I should make any mistakes on the uglier piece that I could hide better. I didn't make any mistakes, though, and moved on to the top. You can see the top panels have their biscuit slots cut out. I'm ready to glue them up.
I'm matching up grain colors, and patterns here in the birch panels to get as nice a top-surface to this TV stand as possible. This looks pretty good so far, but I need two more planks for the full width of the top panel (14").
The stain remover in the can bottle there did nothing to remove the aniline dyes I had used on these, so it came down to simply sanding and sanding (and sanding). Eventually I had them back down to close to the original color. It wasn't until after this sanding that I decided to go with paint. I didn't need to sand them. Sigh.
The little hand-held "belt sander" there helped cleaning out the inner corners of the boxes. This is just a pen-sized detail sander I picked up at Rockler on my last (and 2nd) visit. You advance the belt by hand when you need a clean piece at the wedge tip, which is often given how thin it is. I have a package of spare belts for this, as well as a 2nd version of all in a thinner, shorter size.
Instead of taking the doors off and using the drill press, I used my General marking ruler to figure out where to put the knobs, drilled a through-hole by hand with a cordless drill, and counterbored the back carefully with the same drill and a Forstner bit. This isn't ideal, but it worked fine.
A simple cantilevered shelf for lighting and other uses, made of birch plywood and solid cherry. Light fixture is from Ikea.
This is how the top of the bottom panel turned out. The grains are matched up on this side, so it's prettier than its bottom side. This is also pre-sanding, and it, too, looked, and felt great once run through 3 grits with the random-orbit sander.
To get the panels trimmed the same - more important than getting them trimmed to any particular shape - I taped down some guides on my sliding Incra Miter 3000 miter sled. This worked out just fine, especially with the built-in clamping provided by the T track, and the movable clamp.
Making progress on the basement bar finishing project. These are shots of the bar top as of August 9.
August 9, 2019.
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This project has given me a lot of long, thin shim-like pieces of wood to use for other things. The alternating colors of the birch in the many strips I'm holding would probably look interesting glued up, and turned in my mini lathe into something like a pen. Note between my fingers in each hand that there are thin slivers of air between the boars. This is the very light snipe encountered at the leading, and trailing edges of the wood going through my planer. There's simply nothing I can do about it with small boards, as they're completely in the planer, past any adjusting steps, when they're cut.
The larger strips in the back - nice, square rips from the longer top and bottom panel glue-ups of this TV stand project - are going to be put to use as stops at the back of the small shelves, and bracing along the undersides of the long shelf, and top panel, to help strengthen it up against tilting over to the side. I don't think it's at all necessary, but I'll feel a little bit better with some nice-looking cross-bracing, even though it won't look like that's what it is.
A double-spiral soft-tone wind chime made of copper pipe, wood and fishing supplies. Traceable templates. Clear instructions. A great gift.
I wanted nice Bessey K-Body clamps, but they were too pricey, and delivery would take too long, so I had to run to Home Depot, and pick up a handful of these long Pony bar clamps. I have not liked them very much so far. Here I'm using them to hold the panels together while I get a sense of how things are fitting. Nothing is attached yet.
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The knobs are all comically oversized, but as they are "solid" brass (or bronze for the other two, possibly), I can really whittle them away in the mini lathe, at the grinding wheel, with my Dremel multitool, and its cut-off wheels, and grinding bits. I have some ideas of what I want to make. This will certainly be an adventure. I've not done anything like this before. Don't you just love how willing I am to jump into these things head-first? (I don't)
Another glue-up. I gave up on wrapping the wax paper around the homemade flat bars. Dropping it over, and above them works just as well, and cleanup is much easier. I still love the Bessey Tradesmen steel bar clamps (red handles), and still don't much care for the rickety Irwin pipe clamps (navy blue).
The back stops are glued in place. All of this is the same wood - birch - but there's such tonal variation. It won't matter how this looks, being in the back, but it's both fascinating, and annoying to have so much variance, especially when it's so solid. It's not like 3 colors interwoven over all pieces. Each piece seems a wholly different color. I do like the concept of cutting up birch into different colors and gluing it back into geometric patterns, however, which I've done, and have further plans of doing.