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No idea what mom will do with all of these little cubbies, but I wanted to give her options. As of this writing, she doesn't know anything about the side cabinets, leaf-shaped knob pulls on the cabinets, these little crafty boxes, or the finishes thereupon, save that the TV stand is basically colored like the table on the porch, which is the room in which this will sit. She just thinks she's getting a TV stand. I wanted to do a bit more for my favorite lady.
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Yes, this is very much one of the colors in mom's favorite palette. It's a little tricky to imagine how things will turn out when you're looking at swatches under fluorescent lights in a store, but this is about exactly what I wanted. I hope mom likes them! Latex indoor paint is so easy to work with. In terms of finishing wooden projects, it's a real dream, especially when contrasted with the stain and dye troubles I had before giving up and going with paint.
I ran up to Rockler again and took advantage of sales to get big rubber sticks (2 for 1 sale) that clean out things like belt/disc sander, and bench/angle grinder grits. I got a hand guard I've really wanted for saving my fingers when ripping thin stock in the circular saw, a push stick for similar reasons - this one has a power magnet that lets it stick to the saw for storage and easy access - hooks for hanging dust hoses, a glue roller bottle, rubber band clamps, a splitter for use with circular saw table zero clearance plates for keeping stock from kicking back, two lazy-susan turntables, and the thing I actually went for: some aniline dye.
Aniline dye is a way to color wood without using stain. Stain can pool, and gets darker with more coats. Aniline dye is supposed to be only as dark as it is concentrated, and the concentrate in the little bottles at right here make many quarts of dye. I was getting such splotchy, terrible coatings with Minwax stain that I decided to see how well these would work. I got Golden Brown and Honey Amber. They were about $17-$18/bottle! One nice thing is that they can be mixed with anything as their medium, such as water, mineral spirits, oil, and alcohol. This gives you a lot of options as to how you'll work, how they'll dry, and what finish you'll get.
Resting ball in socket, "Take Flight", a balanced kinetic sculpture that glides around slowly and gracefully with the motion of ambient air in a room.
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Left to dry... the homemade knotty pine flat bars worked out really well (for this, and many subsequent panels). The blue is masking tape holding pieces of wax paper around the mating surfaces of the flat bars. Later, I'd learn I could simply lay wax paper where needed, and get out of a few time-consuming steps, attaching, and tearing free wax paper, before, and after each glue-up.
I did my glue-ups at the end of each day's work, and left them all each to dry overnight. The bonds are incredibly strong with the wood glue + biscuit joints.
I took a picture of my shop part way through the project... basically because I thought it looked cool :)
I picked up these Irwin pipe clamps from Anawalt Lumber on my first visit there. I also grabbed the galvanized pipes there in 2' sections. I have since learned that pipe clamps call for black bar. I did some tests, and found out why. The galvanization on galvanized pipes immediately breaks, and flakes up into serrated teeth when you use pipe clamps on them with any real pressure. This creates a rasp-like surface that mars up your wood quite badly. It happens with black bar, too, but to a far lesser extent.
I'm sure if I were to continue to use these, the galvanization would only get worse, and worse, with bits flaking away, and an increasingly rough surface. I switched to black pipe. I'll find another use for these.
This is the top of the bottom panel. Most of this will be hidden by the rest of the TV stand itself, and the VCR stuff. Even though the grains, and colors are a bit all-over, it still looks great. I sanded it with my old DeWalt random orbit sander, and took the time to switch through coarse, medium, and fine grits, and it came out smooth as silk, top, and bottom. Having jointed the planks using my router, split fence, and a straight bit, the joint lines themselves are completely invisible.