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Little Styrofoamâ„¢ particles are floating all around the saw after the shipping. I'm still decompressing from working really hard to finish up and ship the thing over the whole weekend. It feels weird not having the little stand here anymore. It had become something of a constant in my life for the past few months. Still, it's so nice to be free.
Little Styrofoamâ„¢ pieces will clutter up somewhere in my workplaces until next I need them. I think it's safe to say I won't need these wafer thin strips, though.
My first hinge mortising is obviously amateur, but not half bad. I thought I would do far worse. I marked out another location on the right side to try again. I don't want to risk my final doors on beginner's luck.
I had a box picked out from a shipping place, so I built up the sides to fill in that space. Note that the small side boxes have been bundled up in swaddling, but will be further buffered with more padding in between and around them.
For some reason, despite my tests looking pretty bad, I went ahead with the dyes and started painting up the boxes. The results - as you can see - are pretty ugly.
Every part of the boxes took the dye differently. This was a sad moment. I hoped they'd dry a lot more evenly.
The new board will have this kind of pattern. I may lightly stagger them for a better look, though I'll then have to trim the ends moreso to square them. Perhaps I will skip that to save more wood.
The front surface of the band saw is a great place for post-it notes. Here I used one to keep track of how many of each kind of panel I needed, crossing them off as I went. I really had to ship today to get the thing to mom in time for a party a few days later at which she wanted to have the TV up on the riser so it would look nice, and so she could show off what her son had made :)
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The big wooden Jorgensen hand screw clamp on the left is simply squeezing the front of the box flat. That's where the finger through-hole is, and it was crushing in with the powerful Bessey Tradesman bar clamp pressing the sides into it.
The ends still have my marks, which helped me realign the planks to match up the grains as well as possible. This seems like so long ago. It was about a month, I guess.
Sanded panels... I've learned that I sand too often. I need to learn to wait until more operations are over, and then sand, because I invariably nick the wood, or get glue, or water, or sweat on the wood, and ruin the finely sanded finish. I think I've sanded all of the surfaces 7 times or more now, often through multiple grits, and have gone all the way to 400, and back up to 100 to just get things smoothed up right again. Ah well... experience.
It was about 1/8" too big on each side, so I had to fight for a long time to get it into the box here, and the box is straining. I also had to pretty much walk around on the Styrofoamâ„¢ box to smoosh in the corners so it would fit. As known all along, it's too long for the box proper, so the flaps will need to be bent around it, and taped down hard.
I guess I forgot one backstop. I'm gluing it on here with the help of 2 6" Bessey Tradesmen steel bar clamps.
This is the rarely-seen bottom of the unit. In fact, I think this was the first time I saw the bottom since I stained it. You can see how extra stain has run underneath a little bit around the edges.
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.
I later regretted using this needle file to drill a hole in the top of the dye bottle. I should have poked it with a pin. The plastic was a bit rubbery, and the hole was therefore gnarly, and ended up much too large. Far too much dribbled out whenever I turned it over, and it became a real exercise to try to dropper out particular numbers of drops of each color to make sure I knew the 'formula' by which to mix up a new batch if I needed it later.