tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355236255296422342024-02-20T14:29:16.039-08:00zero roiUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-9048498957157472362015-02-22T16:12:00.003-08:002015-02-22T22:29:23.143-08:00Restoring a Vintage Stanley #4 Smoothing PlaneI know next to nothing about hand planes.<br />
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So I decided a great way to start learning would be by restoring one.<br />
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Disclaimer: if you are looking for how to restore a hand plane, you may want to go look elsewhere. I am not an expert and it's very possible some of the things I am doing here aren't the better way to go.<br />
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I went to ebay and bought this Stanley #4 smoothing plane. Looked great, had all the parts, no cracks on the handles, no big scratches, and it seemed pretty well used, so to me it seems like someone really gave good use to this tool and cared for it well, all good signs. From <a href="http://www.woodcentral.com/bparticles/pdatechart.pdf">this handy dating flowchart</a>, I believe this is a type 14 from the 1929-30 production run.<br />
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The only issue is it came a bit rusty:<br />
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The first thing I did is take it apart and give it a good cleaning.<br />
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I left it soaking on a bath of evaporust overnight:<br />
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Then the next day I took out the pieces and cleaned them up with mild detergent and a soft scrub:<br />
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I spent a lot of time using sand paper to clean up the metal. I used 150, 220, 400, 800, 1500 and 3000 grits. I also used a small cotton buffing wheel with green compound on my dremel in the end to give it the end finish. The result is not perfect but it's good enough for me, at least for the level of equipment and time I want to spend in this operation:<br />
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My bench was a bit of a mess after a couple of hours of sanding:<br />
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I put it all back together and added a bit of 3 in 1 oil on the screw treads just for good measure, then moved on to flatten the base, which also wasn't in a great shape.<br />
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For that I use a glass with different grits of sandpaper stuck to it using double sided tape:<br />
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Then I gave it a quick sharpening. Here I was really starting to rush it because I really wanted to try it on wood, but I'll give it a better sharpening later on, and learn how to camber it as well, which I didn't this time.<br />
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For my sharpening I started by flattening the back of the blade and then setting the bevel to 25 degrees using a jig on my dmt diamond stones:<br />
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Then I end with 4000 and 8000 grit japanese water stones. The 8000 one in particular gives it an amazing razor-sharp edge.<br />
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I end with a few passes on a leather strop with green compound:<br />
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This got the blade super sharp.<br />
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Finally the fun: I brought out a piece of scrap maple and went at it. I had never used a Stanley so after a few minutes figuring out the mechanism, I got it a hang of it and started getting some shavings, although not as great as it can be by any means. I think I need to flatten the base a bit better, specially around the mouth. I also need to do a bit more research about how to sharpen these blades and how to set up the chip breaker (I pretty much sharpened it like one of my chisels, which I am willing to bet is not the right way to go). So there's quite some learning left to do.<br />
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After all, I am super happy with it. I am not going to sand and restain the handles because I like to preserve that record of the 'history' of the tool. I love the idea of taking a well made tool that's so old, that someone likely used for a long time, and giving it a new life. It's a lot cooler than buying a brand new one. And it looks beautiful:<br />
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Update #1. After a bit more fiddling today I realized that part of the reason why my shavings were so bad is because the mouth opening was too wide. I found a screw in the back of the frog that can be adjusted to move it a bit forward.<br />
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I also played with different positions of the chip breaker to be closer or farther from the edge and came to the conclusion that closer to the edge produces much finer shavings.<br />
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With those two adjustments I am making paper thin amazing shavings now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-81462539694916721302015-01-19T17:04:00.002-08:002015-01-19T17:04:47.798-08:00Learning to hand-cut dovetailsI started wood-working a year and a half ago. I learned whatever little I have learned so far by watching many many hours of youtube videos from folks like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel">Matthias Wandel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash">Frank Howarth</a>, and about another dozen channels I follow now. I really like Matthias' videos because of the engineer-like approach he takes on problems, and being an engineer myself, that really got me interested. Frank's channel is another one of my favorite because not only his videos are gorgeous, the stuff he makes is really beautiful and simple, just the style I like myself. Those two channels among many really were a big influence and source of inspiration for me.<br />
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A couple of months ago I came across <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/mcremona">Matt Cremona's channel</a> and a third big wave of inspiration hit me. Matt does a lot of amazing intricate hand-tool work, as well as using modern power tools. I was started to get a tiny bit bored of doing the same old rabbets, dados and miter joins, so finding Matt's channel has really gotten me interested in learning to do more hand work to incorporate into my pieces.<br />
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I decided to start by learning how to hand-cut dovetails.<br />
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Before I started cutting anything, I learned how to sharpen my chisels. I already had a few sharpening stones but hadn't really gotten my technique really down, so I spent a lot of time researching on the internet for what folks are doing. Not surprisingly somehow, I discovered there's about a different sharpening method per fellow sharpening chisels out there, so I ended up with my own method with ideas from here and there, and then my own. I describe it in <a href="http://0roi.blogspot.com/2015/01/restoring-and-sharpening-chisel.html">this post</a>.<br />
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Once I got my chisels ready to go I then spent a lot of time doing research on hand-cut dovetail techniques. After several hours of watching videos for days, I think I figured out how I'd do it, so I made a list of tools I'd need:<br />
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At the top is a dozuki Japanese pull saw, which I bought months ago as an impulse buy at Rockler. From right to left is my cheap coping saw (which I bought a decade ago for something random and never used until pretty much now), a square, a marking knife , my marples chisels, a rubber mallet which I have also owned forever, a marking gauge and a veritas dovetail marking guide. I bought the last two today (and they made a big difference!).</div>
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My favorite videos so far to learn how to cut these are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyKmJAD5hQ&index=3&list=PL0dX5redvVZTjLSY6wAB5mc90hPnzoYja">this one from Matt Cremona</a> (start around minute 5), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrAAglKLPh8">this video with Frank Klausz</a> from Wood and Shop, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJn72yRcuM">this super detailed series</a> also from Wood and Shop and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibyTMTLjaq8">this one from David Barron</a>. There's a bunch of others but those are my favorites.</div>
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So with all that, I finally sat down at my shop (actually stood up, although one thing I learned is I need to build me a stool for this or my back will pay), and made my first dovetails:</div>
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For that first try I eyeballed all the positions and angles for the tails and pins. I didn't own the dovetail guide yet (although that's not really needed, it's just a convenience), pretty much just cut without even marking the line.</div>
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Some of the things I learned from this one:</div>
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<li>When chopping the waste, I went directly against the line, but this pushes the wood back so you end up past the line. I realized that first chopping most of the wood and then going a second time against the line would work a lot better. This was also a detail mentioned in some of the videos I watched which somehow flew right over my head.<br /></li>
<li>The poplar I used probably not the best choice of wood. Really unpleasant and fibrous to cut through.</li>
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Which came out even worse!</div>
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The things I learned from this one:</div>
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<li>The fit was really really tight (you can even see how I cracked the wood). So probably a bit of fine tuning after the initial cuts are done would be a good idea.<br /></li>
<li>There were still lots of gaps in most places. This was mostly because of my sloppy technique for chopping off the waste and my also slopping technique for cutting with the saw.<br /><br />For chopping the waste, I would do it in two steps and then try to pair it flat with the chisel. which made a bit of a mess. I started to intuitively realize that if I tilted the chisel a bit in the last chop it'd leave a cleaner cut, and more importantly, no need to pair the surface flat since it'd be a bit concave (I later saw this trick in a video as well).<br /><br />For the saw, I figured that what I was doing wrong is basically causing the saw blade to get caught too much and almost wobble. I later learned that first making a dent, then cutting straight on top, then going down lightly and accelerating would yield a much better cut. In essence, use a lot more confidence in the cut :)<br /></li>
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I made a couple more tries which were just a bit better. This happened at least twice too:</div>
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Where I cut the tails off and only realized it in the end. So the advice you see everywhere about marking your waste with an X, is really, great advice.</div>
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I was at this point two days into cutting 4 sets of dovetails and not looking very promising. This is when I went back for some more youtube'ing and found and watched all the videos in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJn72yRcuM">this series</a> as well as a few others. It's amazing how much more it sinks in when you have actually tried to do it first.</div>
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I also went to the store this morning and picked up a marking gauge and the veritas guide thing. Then I gave it another try:</div>
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I consider these my first set of 'decent' dovetails. Still far from great but compared with the previous attempts they look so much better. A few things I learned this time:</div>
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I made a few mistakes with my cuts too but that's a matter of more practice, but overall it was pretty exciting to get something decent after the first crappy attempts.</div>
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The metal had come off of the handle so I used a good dose of epoxy to glue it up in place. I cleaned the blade with a series of dry wet super high grit sand paper and then buffed it with my dremel. I didn't take pictures of that. <br />
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One that was done, I set out to flatten the back, reset the bevel and sharpen it.<br />
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This method also works for setting up any brand new chisels you'd get from the store.<br />
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To flatten the back I use wet dry sand paper at 350, 800 and 1500 grit. These are fixed to a piece of scrap glass using double sided tape tape. I spray those with window cleaner.<br />
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This particular chisel's back was pretty uneven so I actually spent some time on the coarse diamond stone before this.<br />
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In this picture you can see it half way through:<br />
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To reset the bevel I use the veritas mkii jig, which is a bit pricey but awesome. I had tried doing this by hand and ended up with a convex bevel. Then I tried a cheaper jig, which didn't work very well for me, so I finally went for the veritas. It was worth the money.</div>
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Here I am setting the bevel to 25 degrees:</div>
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I use coarse fine and extra-fine DMT diamond stones, also with window cleaner:</div>
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This is how the bevel looks almost finished:<br />
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The veritas jig has a neat feature to add a bit of a micro bevel by just turning this knob:<br />
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After that I do a couple of passes on the back to remove the burr:<br />
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I made a quick stropping board with piece of plywood and a piece of leather glued to it. I rub chromium oxide on it and then give it a few passes to finish it off.<br />
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My favorite way to test and make sure it's as sharp as I need it is by cutting a piece of paper. It should leave a super clean cut with very little effort:<br />
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You can also try and get some shavings off of a piece of hardwood end grain. This method definitely makes the chisels as sharp as I need them for what I ask them to do.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki8tt-VjwqI">Here's a great video from Paul Sellers</a> on how he does it, most of my technique is inspired by him, except I am not good enough to do it completely free handed.<br />
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And here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHr-qiQNuzo">another video</a> from one of my favorite recently new youtube woodworking channels by Matthew Cremona.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-80611051233301573532014-12-07T12:26:00.004-08:002014-12-07T12:26:42.703-08:00California King Size Walnut Bed, Part 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I assembled the bed in the room before I finished it.</div>
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First I clamped everything together:</div>
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I use these hardwood squares I made long ago that are super useful for this type of clamping:</div>
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These are the holes for the bolts that connect on the other side with barrel nuts. I used a 3/4 inch forstner bit to make room for the nut head:</div>
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I cut the plugs with a plug cutter on the drill press:<br />
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And I cut them flush with a flush trim saw.<br />
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I installed the support boards which are made out of 2x6 lumber<br />
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These are joined with metal squares:<br />
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The pieces separating each board are made with plywood and glued to the rail:<br />
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This is how it all looked put together before finish:<br />
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I sanded everything with the orbital sander at 80, 150 and 220 grit, then used a finish of 2 parts tung oil, 1 part polyurethane and 1 part mineral spirits. I gave it 3 coats in total and used steel wool in between.<br />
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And this is the finished bed:<br />
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To make the head board, I started by joining the boards using biscuits.</div>
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I wiped most of the glue squeeze out with wood dust right away, then once dried I went over with a chisel and a hand plane to remove the rest.<br />
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I used the orbital sander with 80 and 150 grit to finish the surface.<br />
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Then I trimmed the ends to the final length with the jig saw first...<br />
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...and finally with a router to leave a perfect finish.</div>
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I always make lots of adjustments to the initial plans throughout the build...</div>
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To cut the miters for the head board frame, I used the miter saw. To get a bit more accuracy I used a piece of sacrificial plywood as the base so it'd show me the cut line. Then I sneaked to the cut line a little at a time.<br />
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I don't trust the guides on the saw, so I made a few test cuts on scrap wood to make sure I got a perfectly square angle:<br />
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The frame is also joined with biscuits.<br />
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A handy trick to clamp very long boards is to connect two long clamps:<br />
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This is how the back of the head board looked like once done:</div>
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If there're any small gaps in the corners I finish them with a mix of super fine sand dust and glue:<br />
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The side boards were a lot easier to make, here's a gluing the rail to it, which also has a bunch of drywall screws:</div>
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The legs are very simple also, first I cut them to width:<br />
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and finally gave them a sanding:<br />
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These are also glued with biscuits. Here's using Matthias Wandel's trick to remove squeeze out with wood dust:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-60061572456848949472014-11-21T11:32:00.001-08:002014-12-07T11:38:38.027-08:00California King Size Walnut Bed, Part 2I made the plans, and decided to add a headboard after all.<br />
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This is how it will look like:<br />
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The headboard is going to be made of a miter-jointed frame with a board inside that's made of 3/4 inch walnut boards jointed together. All joined with biscuits and glue.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">NOTE: The measurements shown in these screens are not 100% accurate. I made changes to those during the build of the bed. Please don't use as a reference.</span></div>
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The rails are going to be made of 2x4 fir:</div>
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Bottom view:</div>
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Side boards:<br />
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Supports:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-71184851385578031122014-11-09T15:05:00.003-08:002014-11-22T11:08:00.466-08:00California King Size Walnut Bed, Part 1I made some quick sketches for a very simple design using 2x4's and solid walnut.<br />
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I wasn't sure whether to have the mattress rest on the actual walnut boards or tucked in, but I think I'll go with the latter (which is, the left sketch):<br />
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I started by planning all the boards to 1 1/4 inch thick,</div>
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That made a lot of chips<br />
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Then I jointed all the edges. I don't have a jointer large enough to do this, so I just did it on the table saw. It's good enough for what I need it to be,</div>
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That's all of the 2x4s:<br />
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Finally, I sanded everything to 220 grit for now. I'll do up to 300 later,</div>
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That's all the boards ready. I don't have the mattress yet, but once I have it, I'll cut everything to its final dimensions and assemble it, in part 2.<br />
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I joined them with rabbet joints. The bottom is 6 mm plywood.<br />
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They are glued and nailed. I use these squares red squares I made out of oak and box joined to keep things square while I nail things.</div>
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My shop is so small everything is on wheels and most things have a double function. That bench is usually against the wall and I use it for finishing pieces, but some other times I roll it behind the table saw and use it as an outfeed table which is very handy to rip through big sheets.</div>
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We made this jig to figure out where each drawer slide should go and make sure both sides match up perfectly.</div>
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My father made the calculations and the sketch for that part. You can kinda tell he did that for a living for decades.</div>
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The drawer faces are made of 3/4 inch walnut plywood, the same used for the cabinet itself. The edges are made of solid walnut cut in strips of 6mm and miter joined.</div>
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I made this small jig to make the holes for the drawer pulls so they are in the exact same spot for all the drawers. All you need to do is draw a line at half the face and then line it up with the line on the jig, then drill.</div>
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The drawers have a 2 mm clearance (approximately). It took a ton of work, tweaking, sanding, wedging and hand planing to get a perfect fit. </div>
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I sanded it all with an orbital sander and then with 180 and 400 grit paper.</div>
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To finish it, I blew compressed air on all the pieces to get rid of most of the dust, then I rubbed it with mineral spirits to get rid of the rest, let that dry and apply a coat of tried and true varnish.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-28679569295716496022014-06-29T22:20:00.001-07:002014-06-29T22:31:10.594-07:00Walnut Drawer Cabinet Part 1I got the idea to build this cabinet from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPL3kJPsVdA">one of my all time wood working favorite videos</a> by Frank Howarth. The design is almost identical except that instead of a bookshelf, I will make a drawer cabinet.<br />
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I used my big sled to cross cut all the bigger boards. I also used this to cut some of the leg pieces that need to be cut at certain angles.<br />
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Then this miter jig for some of the miters, for example for the edging of the box:</div>
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And this other miter jig for the miter joints for the box walls:</div>
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And of course, my trusty smaller sled which I use for about every cross cut that fits in it:</div>
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I used 3/4" walnut plywood for the box with miter joints and biscuits.<br />
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I used a band clamp and pipe clamps to hold it in place while the glue dried:</div>
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I didn't take pictures of it but the back of the box is 1/4" walnut ply. I cut rabbets on the walls to make room for it and then used a staple gun to affix it and complete the box. I finally trimmed it with a trim bit in the router.</div>
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The edging is done with strips of solid walnut cut on the table saw at 1/4" and then glued to the ply.</div>
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A great trick to fill in the gaps that may remain in the joint is to make some fine walnut sawdust and mix it with glue then smudge that in the gaps, and sand it. I make the sawdust with either a 180 grit sandpaper or by cutting some scraps with my dovetail saw which also makes very fine sawdust.</div>
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The legs are almost identical to these in the Frank Howarth video except I didn't cut them to be curved in the band saw, I made them straight instead.</div>
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I cut all the pieces and joined them with biscuits first. I used the miter jig to make the miters and I cut the angle on the legs using the larger sled and clamping them down at the angle.</div>
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There's a strip of wood that the box actually sits on top of that's glued and stapled to the legs. I cut the rabbet using the dado blades on the table saw.</div>
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Once everything was glued together, I cut it at a 45 degree angle using my miter sled.</div>
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Since the 1/2 " walnut I was using was too thin to cut biscuits on at an angle I glued an stapled another strip inside each leg to make it 1" thick in total. Then I joined these using biscuits.</div>
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It's very important to double check the miters in dry before gluing to make sure they make a 90 degree angle.</div>
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Finally there's a strip that goes in the back that's just glued.</div>
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The legs attach to the box using these squares of wood that clip the bottom rail.</div>
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After a lot of sanding with 180, 220 and 400 grit, here's the finished product. Next making the drawers.</div>
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This space under the stairs in my basement was starting to get very messy, and it was very poorly utilized, so I decided to make a custom shelf to use as much as I could from the space.</div>
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I used cheap 2x6 lumber which I cut to 1 1/2 " width with the table saw. Having my finishing bench on wheels act as an outfeed table came very handy,<br />
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The shelves I made gluing 1x6 planks together.<br />
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This is how it looked in the end. No fancy joints this was very quick and dirty, everything is just screwed together.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-62725127906961812662014-04-30T22:04:00.000-07:002014-04-30T22:04:01.117-07:00Home Made KnifeAfter I saw <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HITNSG_2ow">this video from John Heisz</a>, I knew I had to make a knife.<br />
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First I drew the shape of the blade on a piece of plywood. It's amazing that you never stop to think about how the shape of a knife blade looks like until you have to make one, then it's not so obvious.<br />
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This cut off serves as a template as well as to get a feel of the knife in my hand. I decided I had to add more length to the handle.<br />
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Cut it off with an angle grinder,<br />
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Then I used the grinder to grind the blade to start to sharpen it. I dipped it in crushed ice every once in a while to try to keep it from losing its temper,<br />
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The handles are made of a scrap of walnut,<br />
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Then I used the belt sander and a file to shape the handle. I don't have a picture of the final product, but after this I added a coat of linseed oil and bee's wax, and sharpened the blade with diamond stones and a japanese water stone so it's razor sharp. I also used wet dry sand paper to polish the blade and finally, i stropped it with a piece of leather rubbed with chromium oxide.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-815369553978550482014-04-20T22:01:00.000-07:002014-04-20T22:01:17.214-07:00Plywood Docking Station for Nexus 7This afternoon I made a russian birch plywood docking station for my Nexus 7 tablet.<br />
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First I glued two pieces of plywood together for the back of the base,<br />
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I glued and screwed everything together then cut everything flush on the table saw. I made room for the mini usb connector by carving a space with a chisel, then used hot glue to fill the gaps.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-21540491510798671552014-04-13T19:42:00.001-07:002014-04-13T19:44:30.290-07:00Surgical fix on an intricate piece of carved woodToday my wife and I fixed this intricate South African table legs, which I think it's carved this way from a piece of very hard wood. Unfortunately, because of this design, it's not very strong so one of the legs broke.<br />
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You can tell looking at the direction of the grain in the cut that this was a super weak part of the wood so it was bound to break.<br />
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I picked an old steel kick plate and cut a piece off of it.<br />
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With the dremel we carved a groove to house the steel reinforcement,<br />
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On the other side, because of the geometry, we could just use a regular screw, but making the hole had to be done carefully so we drilled first a smaller pilot hole and then used a larger drill bit,<br />
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We used epoxy to join the pieces,<br />
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Then let it cure, clamping things to make sure the legs didn't touch each other,<br />
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Once cured we ground off the metal to contour to the wood, sanded it, and applied a coat of danish oil. </div>
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The scrap wood situation was getting out of control so I had to throw away a bunch of the scraps. I also had accumulated too many large panels of wood so I built a new, shorter bench to replace the old one I had on saw horses, and that made some room for the panels next to it. That bench is also on caster wheels so it can be moved around, and outside the shop, and can also double as an outfeed table for that table saw.</div>
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I need to build another cabinet on wheels as well to go under that bench so I can store a bunch of the finishing supplies like brushes, clothes, masks and so on.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-4424310442175920822014-04-06T22:56:00.002-07:002014-04-06T22:56:12.265-07:00Kid's DeskI made this desk today. I used some awesome russian birch plywood I had been trying to find for a long time and I finally found at Crosscuts in Seattle.<br />
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I also tried a few new things in this project. For example, I used a dado and rabbet joint as opposite to the simpler rabbet joint I have used for most other drawers. I didn't like it that much, it's a bit harder to make because you need to be precise with the depth of the dado and I don't think it's any stronger than a normal rabbet joint. As a matter of fact, because I also made a dado to fit the bottom of the drawer, it leaves a small square piece of wood at the intersection of both rabbets which is pretty odd.<br />
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I also used a router flush trim bit to trim the edges of the top, which i left a bit longer for this purpose. That works really well. I really like the look of the cross sections of this russian birch because they have so many layers.<br />
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I am finishing it with Danish oil and wipe on polyurethane, which is a type of finish I haven't tried before either.<br />
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This is how it looks like from the back. I joined all the pieces with pine dowels and glue, no nails.<br /><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-41083828103848954482014-04-05T20:24:00.002-07:002014-04-05T20:26:53.670-07:00The Planer CabinetThe design of this planer cabinet is a combination of ideas I found from the internet, plus my own tweaks.<br />
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It is on wheels so it can be moved around my small shop. The top is a melamine board, and the door is 3/4 inch plywood, both I rescued from someone that was going to throw them to the trash. I cut the top to size and glued up some veneer on the sides.<br />
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The frame is made with defective 2x3 pieces that I got at a 70% discount at the home depot. I planed them and jointed them and they ended up doing the job just fine. I joined them with glue, drywall screws and rabbet joints, I think it will be more than strong enough.<br />
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This is the inside of the cabinet. There's an opening no the left side which I covered with mesh so the air can escape, and on the right, a hole where the chips come in from the planer. The idea is, once it fills up with chips, to scoop them out into my trash container.</div>
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Making all these connections is always a bit of a pain. I ended up using the 2.5" to 4" adapter that came with the planer, and to that I connected a 45 degree PVC fitting I bought at the home depot. Then I 3D-printed an adapter (in blue) from that to the clear pipe. I had to tweak adapter a tiny bit with tape to make for a very snug fit so the air from the planer wouldn't eventually push it out.</div>
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This is the piece that connects with the cabinet. That part is also 3D printed.</div>
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I didn't take a picture of this but while doing this, I built myself a miter jig and also finished a spline jig I had already half built and used them to build a frame for the mesh for the air vent. it looked pretty cool for an experiment:</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-6429125507381448442014-02-26T22:24:00.002-08:002014-02-26T22:24:23.788-08:00Home-made Stool from a Recycled ChairLast weekend I made a stool for my wife's also home-made desk out of a nice old chair and some cheap lumber.<br />
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I just needed the seat itself, so I cut off the legs and back using my Japanese saw. This saw is perfect for this type of job because it's very flexible so it can be bent to cut fairly flush.<br />
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Next I sanded it to strip the old varnish.<br />
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Once the surface was nice and smooth I finished the seat with 2 coats of primer and 4 coats of spray white paint, and 3 coats of polyurethane. I sanded the surface with 400 grit paper in between most of these coats, except the paint.<br />
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The legs I made out of some 2x6s I had laying around. I planed them, then cut them to be square, sanded them and cut a bevel with the hand planer on the corners.</div>
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I used maple dowels for the joints. I didn't use a self-centering jig for these. Instead, I made a marker out of one of the dowels with a screw in it, then used that to mark the spot where the join would go. Then I drilled all the holes with the drill press.</div>
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This is how the legs looked like when drying up after joining both sides. I ended up not being able to square all sides so the legs are a tiny bit crooked. I need to make more of these squares.</div>
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I added some reinforcements in the last minute to make the legs stronger.<br />
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Finally, after a coat of stain and two coats of shellac, the finished product (with its matching desk):</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-6916299635619628892014-01-28T09:10:00.001-08:002014-03-03T19:44:59.130-08:00Office cabinetI built this last weekend and finished it throughout the week. I used English Walnut MinWas stain to experiment with a different look. The frame is made of 2x4s and oak for the rails. The drawers are birch plywood, and the handles are 3d-printed in the MakerBot.<br />
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The cabinet design is from <a href="http://www.woodgears.ca/">Matthias Wandel</a>.<br />
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I screwed up the height in the plans and made it one inch and a quarter too short, that's why I had to add these shims under the desk.</div>
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a month or so after finishing this I refinished the drawer faces in the planer and then painted them white. for some reason the pine didn't absorb the stain very well so white looks a lot better</div>
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I never use store bought stock unless I have no option. I usually have the freezer full of bags of chicken bones that I save, but not this time, so I used a full chicken.</div>
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I don't use the breasts for the stock, since they don't give out that much flavor. To remove them from the carcass, it's best to first remove the wish bone, then make a couple of cuts at the center on each side of the breast bone and simply pull from the breast fillets. You only need to make a couple of cuts through joints to debone a chicken, most of it is twisting and pulling. I chop it all in small pieces and roast it in the oven until it's well browned.</div>
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I throw it in a pressure cooker with a couple of celery ribs and two or three large carrots and one onion, which I first cook for 5 minutes with a bit of oil. Then cover it with filtered water and cook at 15 psi for 1.5 hours. Once finished, cool the pressure cooker in the sink with cool water and strain the stock.</div>
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For this paella, I used chicken thighs and rock fish, although for the best paellas I've made I used rabbit.<br />
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I found a brine recipe in a magazine once and I never make chicken without brining it this way. It makes it very juicy and perfectly seasoned. Use 1 cup of salt, 1 cup of sugar and 4 quarts of water and brine the chicken for 45 minutes, then dry, cut in bite size pieces and save in the fridge.<br />
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Then make the sofrito. I used 1 green pepper, 1 red pepper, 1 yellow onion and 4 garlic cloves. Once all the vegetables are soft I add one can of tomatoes and cook it longer. The secret for a good sofrito is a lot of patience.<br />
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Once the sofrito is ready I add the fish and the chicken, and also paprika, saffron and a yellow food coloring that they sell in Spain special for paellas.<br />
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Then add the rice, and cook it for 2 or 3 minutes. I use 1 kilogram of rice for this paella size. Bomba rice is the best.<br />
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Finally add the stock, about 200 ml per each 100 grams of rice, so in this case, 2 liters. I usually save some extra in case I need it later.<br />
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Now raise the heat until it starts boiling then lower it and let it cook at medium low until the rice is almost done.<br />
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It's very important to not stir the rice at this point. If you do this at a party, someone will come and undoubtedly grab your spoon and try to stir it. Don't let them.<br />
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Raise the heat for the last 5 minutes and add the extra toppings, in this case I used green beans but you can use shrimp or mussels or whatever you like.<br />
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This weekend I made a set of speaker mounts out of plywood, a bunch of bolts and nuts, and some knobs I made with the 3D printer.</div>
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It can be tilted in two axes. It's certainly not the simplest way to design a speaker mount and it is a bit bulky, but that's all intentional. I like the way it looks with the two knobs and the home-made look of the plywood. I have other store bought speaker mounts that use a ball that rotates in three axes which is much simpler, but these are really hard to adjust. Also, the third axis of rotation is not really necessary anyway. With this mount is really easy to tilt the speakers by just loosening one of the knobs, tilt, then tighten again. This project is also a bit of an experiment.</div>
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First I prototyped it in the computer to get an idea of the rough sizes of all the pieces I needed. Since some of the wood parts that serve as rotation pivots are square instead of round, I wanted to make sure these pieces would be have the correct range of rotation without being obstructed by other parts. It's very easy to model and simulate this in the computer.<br />
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This is the 'arm' of the mount. I used a t-nut here to be able to tighten this first screw. All is made out of 1/2 inch plywood. I also used a screw to go across the back side of this arm to provide extra support on top of the carpenters glue.<br />
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This is the face plate that screws to the wall. For this second screw, instead of a t-nut, I carved a hexagonal hole in the wood with a chisel and embedded the nut in it with a hammer.<br />
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And that's how it all looks put together. I used the same 3D printed knobs I made for <a href="http://0roi.blogspot.com/2013/12/3d-printed-stroller-extensions.html">this project</a>. The finish here is terrible, there're some burn marks on one side of the face plate but I'll take it all apart and give it a sanding and a couple more coats of lacquer. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-735523625529642234.post-22065301613283039582013-12-29T15:56:00.002-08:002013-12-29T15:56:30.254-08:00Wood and Plastic Phone Docking StationThis is the second docking station I make for my phone. This time I used the 3D printer for the top and plywood for the base.<br />
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I designed such that the little light that blinks when there are new notifications is hidden inside the slot, since while I am working at my desk, the light is very distracting.</div>
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First I made a very simple model of the plastic top in Blender. For making things that require accurate measurements in Blender, I set the units as metric and then the scale as 0.001, which makes 1 blender unit correspond to 1 millimeter. This ensures that when the model is exported to STL format it keeps the right dimensions. I use my caliper to take measurements which I then use in the virtual model, then I print a prototype piece in low quality to make sure everything looks good and make any adjustments if necessary before I print the final piece.<br />
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The top attaches to the wooden base with screws, so I modeled a simple screw which then I subtracted with a boolean modifier to create the whole and the countersink.<br />
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I glued the micro usb connector with cement glue, and I ran the cable through a small slot which I routed on the wood. I will probably use velcro tap to cover it all and then stick it to my desk.<br />
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The bottom is made with two layers of 1/2 inch plywood which I laminated together and then cut it to measure. I gave everything a couple of coats of spray lacquer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0