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Bench Lathe Cabinet/Stand

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Bench Lathe Cabinet/StandThis 21 drawer cabinet had already been designed to hold my tools for building R/C airplanes. Those tools are mostly small and better suited for shallow drawers. Just a couple of days before I started construction a friend asked me if I wanted to buy his lathe. I did so a little redesign was needed. The significant changes to the original design were a stronger base instead of 3/4” plywood and a 3/8” ply back instead of the original .20” floor underlayment back.The carcass is 3/4” Purebond maple veneered ply. The base is made from 1-3/4” thick engineered beam ripped to 3-1/2” width. It sits on eight adjustable levelers because the concrete guys did me no favors in getting the floor flat. The drawers are made from 1/2” Purebond which is not nearly as nice as the unobtainable Baltic birch for drawer sides. The drawer bottoms are floor underlayment. The top is a 23” solid core door cut down to 63” long.The drawer false fronts are copied from a project I saw on YouTube. They're 3/4” MDF. The corners were rounded with a 1/8” radius bit and finished with thinned oil based Varathane, rolled on with a 4” soft woven roller. Early coats were thinned 2:1 and the last coats were thinned 10:1. Sanded before the first coat and before the last coat only. The full extension ball bearing slides were a marketplace find that helped offset the cost of the plywood.It's definitely been my most complex project to date. It does everything I had hoped.The finished project.The engineered beam foundation. The levelers couldn't be locked after the cabinet was complete so the base was leveled and the floor marked so it could be returned to the same place fairly precisely.The cabinet was built on sawhorses to make it easier on my body. With so many drawer slides they were all removed before taking the carcass off of the sawhorses. The slides alone weighed 60 pounds.
Top and retractable casters installed. Due to the weight of the finished build, the lathe was installed and the cabinet moved to its final position before replacing the slides and drawers.
A quick check to make sure things still fit after adding the 500 pound lathe to the cabinet. The drawers still worked smoothly.

Detail view of the false fronts.



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Hickory and Walnut Bed

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Hickory and Walnut BedWife spent hours trying to find a new headboard for our son's room. She showed me a few pictures of what she was looking for. She left town for the week without ordering. When she came home, I had this one done and moved into his room. Its MUCH better made than the ones she was looking at.The bed is calico hickory, mostly the sapwood culled from another project, finished with Watco Dark Walnut Danish Oil and rubbed out with dark paste wax. The top trim of the headboard and footboard is walnut, also finished with Watco Dark Walnut Danish Oil and rubbed out with dark paste wax.
The slats are maple made per Charles Neil's video instruction. 8 slats are more than needed, but if my grown son decides to jump on his new bed, I'm not worried. That bed is solid!As always, I appreciate your comments as well as suggestions on how my next one can be even better.



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Beach Triptych- Spalted Maple

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Beach Triptych- Spalted MapleRecently vacationed at the beach with our daughter, son and law and grands. Had a few favorite pics from that trip printed and built this as a birthday present for our daughter.Took a chunk of Spalted maple log Planed one surface flat before sawing it into 1 + boards.
Mitered corners with black walnut splines.
Adorned with seashells collected during our trip.
Spraycan poly finish.



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