Photos tagged Building

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  • Sides cut to make a bunch of 12x12" and 12x18" boxes
  • Cutting the sides to length
  • Doors ripped into 9.5" strips to use for the sides of the boxes
  • The old garage shelves
  • It didn't take Kari long to load it up with stuff.
  • The grain around the live edge is really interesting.
  • I probably could've shaved another 1/2" off of the thickness, but overall I think it turned out pretty well. It really helps frame the sink, cleans up the tile line, and balances out the wall. As a bonus, we later realized that the shadow cast by the live edge, kind of looks like the state of Iowa.
  • Or maybe some pink accent lights?
  • How about some blue accent lights...
  • The underside with the lights off
  • Shelf: mounted. Sink: lit.
  • Lights mounted... it looks bad from this angle, but the frosted diffuser really helped a ton.
  • To clean up the light strip and distribute the light a bit more uniformly, I also added some aluminum channel with a frosted diffuser.
  • When I was almost done with everything, I did the dumbest thing ever and dropped the shelf on it's corner... I yelled. But then I just had to cut 3/8" off and re-sanded the end.
  • The top cracks and knots all cleaned up
  • The front knot sanded down.
  • Filling a big knot in the front of the shelf... this whole process was new to me and felt so sketchy.
  • Filling these big cracks really felt like I was ruining everything
  • Scraped and sanded down the first layer of epoxy... it needed another layer after this.
  • Filling some knots and holes with the dyed epoxy.
  • I immediately spilled dye everywhere. It took a long time for this to come off of my hand.
  • I bought some epoxy and dark walnut dye for filling the knots and cracks
  • oooo, prettty lights.
  • Got the low voltage wire extensions shrink wrapped and ran through the wall...
  • I later realized that the slightly older versions of hue light strips had a coupler that wasn't hard wired into the light strip. I happened to have 2 of the older ones, so, I found a company that made extensions for them and went that route. This way, if my hue ever dies, I still just have simple wires running through my wall and can easily switch things out.
  • light strip channel routed...
  • I bored a little container to conceal the annoying hardwired lightstrip coupler ... but I wound up not even needing to do this.
  • Routing out a channel to conceal some strip lighting
  • Kari puts up with a lot...
  • Ripping down a 3.25" thick, 50lb hunk of walnut on a contractor saw by myself felt a little sketchy...
  • Side view of the mockup with the live edge
  • A quick mockup to see how the size felt... Maybe a little thick.
  • Squaring this up with the palm router wasn't fast, but it worked!
  • My jointer wasn't quite big enough, so I made a little sled for my palm router to square things up
  • How I do dust collection on my miter saw
  • The transition down the stairs
  • Finished product
  • The hardest part
  • The bottom of the first flight
  • Looking into the living room from the landing
  • Looking down the stairs
  • A closeup of one of the corners
  • The top planed up
  • The bottom planed up
  • This generated a bit of sawdust... By the time this project was all said and done, this bag was completely full.
  • After a couple passes through the planer, I started to get a feel for how pretty the grain was.
  • To square it up, I cut a couple straight pieces of plywood and tacked them to the sides with roofing nails (so they'd be easy to pry-back out). This would give me a straight edge to send through the planer. On the front-side, I tried to place the nails in sections of wood that I'd be planing off so the nail holes wouldn't be visible.
  • And we had to make a decision, keep the live-edge or not?
  • After sitting in storage for several years the wood got a bit warped and twisted, so I had to get it squared back up.
  • Removable toe kick finished up
  • Clamps off
  • Clamps off
  • Glued up n clamped
  • Fittin things together with Rico
  • Progress
  • When it was time for final assembly and glue-up, I asked my good buddy, Rico to give me a hand.
  • Things coming together
  • Dry fitting a cap and baseboard just to get a glimpse of what everything would look like
  • Removing the masking and plastic bubble was exciting, and gave us a glimpse of what the final product would look like.
  • After letting the alkyd ("oil") base stain dry for a few days, I tried my hand at spraying on a few layers of top coat... and now I want a larger air compressor.
  • Top posts: stained!
  • Starting to stain the first couple posts
  • My tent for finishing the newel posts in our already finished home.
  • Finishing the pre-installed newel posts required so much prep work
  • Then I had to mask everything that I'd already installed in order to finish the newel posts
  • Finished banister caps and base boards.
  • I masked the glue points of all of the wooden banister pieces before finishing
  • Finishing all of the trim pieces in my shop
  • Setting everything in place before disassembling to finish.
  • Look at this fit.
  • Once my newel post hole jig was made, I used a combination of a multi-tool, Japanese pull saw and chisels to cut it out.
  • I made a jig in order to help me make a clean, square hole to inset the bottom newel post into the curb.
  • Then it was back to the tricky part... Getting the rest of the angled pieces fit and cut.
  • Every project is an excuse to buy some new tools, so... I decided to pick up a thickness planer to get this thing cleaned up. It just baaarely fit into my car.
  • Added some CRI 90 under cabinet lights to the shop. No more shadows on the work bench!
  • The top of the banister set in place
  • For the top of the banister, I ripped and planed down some 6" boards and then cut the miters and scribes at the wall.
  • Starting on the top of the banister... oh yea. that's a tight miter
  • There was a lot of drilling, routing, and precise cuts to get everything to fit properly.
  • Th hidden spline on the banister cap