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You can see how I left the knob pull long enough so I could get my fingers behind it still. The original length at left would probably look good on a large cabinet door, but on the little 3" wide doors on this tiny TV stand, they looked absurd, like antennas.
Another shot of the failed attempt to drill through the surprisingly hard screw that had its head pop off while screwing in the latch catch.
Here's a decent shot of how the front edges of the rounded-over shelves look, after being clamped toward the front, and glued into their routed shelving.
They still need to be stained, but the boxes fit, and work as hoped. Magazines do fit face down in the magazine box, and everything fits in without blocking the doors.
Parting a threaded item is a little weird. It tries to pull the parting knife along the threads, bending it sideways. I worked with it manually to take a light cut, and back off if it was pulling too much. I don't think I could cinch up on the knife anymore, or the jaws of the chuck would hit the cut-off tool holder.
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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The front edge of the shelf has no seam with its routed channel, but the top edge has a very slight visible line between board and channel. This could have been avoided by routing the second pass a tiny bit shy, and really pushing this panel in hard, but it was already a bit of a tight squeeze, and no one is going to notice this, but me :)
Amazingly, I found I simply couldn't have enough clamps. I really wished I just had a 2'x2' press that would press the entire thing evenly all at once, instead of needing to target particular points with little clamps.
No more pics of this now, but there will be plenty of this magazine box in later sets.
And it's done. Phwew! Finally. I've been hanging onto this brand for weeks waiting to finally use it on this thing. Of course, I'll use it on my other pieces as I make them as well, but this was the impetus for the purchase.
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Trying to think around the problem, I decided instead to drill another hole through the latch catch, and then screw a new screw through that into the door back. The center drill went through pretty easily.
I also had to part-off a piece of the screw. It was too long with the thin cabinet doors on the TV stand when I bought it. Now it was way too long.
Here's a closeup of the knobs, pre-destruct... er... creative reimaginings, as well as their prices, for posterity.
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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I didn't get a shot of it, but I put a piece of Styrofoam™ cut perfectly to size in between the top front edges of the magazine box, to keep the stretchy plastic wrapping from squishing it together, bowing it in transit.
After flushing up the box edges on the belt sander, it looks and feels great. I've started gluing up the next box meanwhile.
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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Hinges installed in the first door. This came out rather professionally. This is perhaps my first hinge work ever, so I'm pleased. I'm anxious for the day when I make my own wooden hinges (I know how, and have almost all the parts, and they'd look so cool).
I partitioned the poplar board into quadrants inside of which to test out different ratios of dye to denatured alcohol. The number of drops was in the range of 10-30 for each dye color.
Now I wanted to brand the little side cabinet boxes as well, so I got out the stake on which I'd tested out the paint I had Home Depot mix for me and gave it a whirl a few times. The paint burns, turning from "Windsor Haze" to a kind dark yellowish green. Works, though.
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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Here's how the left side wall (interior view), and door hinge assembly came out. It's perfect. Hooray. The routed channels are for shelving.
All the holes have been marked, and drilled. I used the drill press, and was just very careful about lining it up visually as I plunged in. I think the holes came out rather centered, no? Note that I usually pull the screws a bit off center when drilling, in the direction I want them to hold better, so the slight give when the system pulls everything will just pull them back to center. We're talking maybe 1/64". Just a hair.
Birch splotchiness. This is just how the wood is. I couldn't through stain alone get it to be anything other than this. Perhaps with some kind of sealer up front it may have been more uniform.
You can see how long the pull's standoff is here. The cut-off tool comes in from the back to slice the part free as it turns.
I used my General precision marking ruler to plot out finger holes for the fronts of the boxes, and did tests with different size Forstner bits.
Well *that* wasn't how I hoped they'd look. Glue seams I thought I'd sanded out of the inner corners came back to haunt me, leaving darker blotches inside the boxes. The grain of the wood soaked up different amounts of the dye, and contrary to the promises of aniline dyes being uniform, and not soaking in like stains, they did.
I will glue them like this, with the other side pressed flat against something to true them up. This will be the end I place down on the planer's table. I'm going to cut these all in half, and join them into a wider panel before that.
From the back, you can see the bottom shelf, already glued in peeking out between the Bessey K-Body handle, and bar. It's squeezing in the top one, to push it far forward, to get rid of the front seam between the shelf, and the routed channel into which it slides. I let this dry up for about half a day.