We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving this year. We had precisely one butt-load of people at our place this year. I think we had fifteen people (and three dogs) festivitating in our small house. Hopefully everyone that was here enjoyed himself.
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You may have heard me mention that I recently made a built-in bookcase in my office room. I hadn’t put up any pictures of it because when I built it, I made one shelf too few. I thought four shelves would suffice, but I discovered that five would be better. I wanted to wait until I made the fifth shelf before taking pics of it.
The carcass and shelves are made of MDF while the face frame and shelf-edges are made from poplar. The whole thing is painted in flat white latex enamel and coated in satin water-based polyurethane. I finished it this way because latex enamel never cures to a truly hard finish and I knew that books would stick to it. They won’t stick to cured polyurethane.
I think it came out OK. It’s not the greatest piece I’ve made, but I wasn’t as precise as I’ve been on other projects. Here are a few pics:
The room is tight – it’s hard to get a picture of the whole piece from a decent angle.
Update! It’s done! I’ve replaced the picture below with one of the finished product. Also, you can now click here for more pictures.
I’ve been working on building this sideboard buffet thingy with a built-in twenty bottle wine rack for the past month or so. Tonight I finished building it. Now it just needs a bit of finish sanding on the doors & drawers, then it’s ready for staining and a clear coat. After that, it’ll be ready to move in.
I originally intended to build this last fall around the time that I build the rocking chair and ottoman. I didn’t get it done before the holidays and then we got Cookie in January, so I put it off for a while until we could be somewhat sure that the new dog wouldn’t eat it. It will be ready to have it’s débutante ball on Thanksgiving.
Ok, so, over the summer we helped Jess’s family build a little hunting cabin on their property. I’ve had the pictures that Cindy took in my possession for some time now but have been too lazy busy to put them online. Well, here they are.
I think we helped for four weekends or so, and in all they have a couple of months invested in the building of this thing. It’s pretty impressive. It was built completely from scratch. We built the walls and trusses – nothing was pre-fabricated.
