It is indeed lovely, but it’s also making my brain hurt trying to work out how you’ve done it, which bit is which. The laminations just make no sense to me 🤯
Edit: is the corner an entirely separate piece at 45°?
Grain orientation on pegged joints.- Hard to tell, but it looks to be in parallel to the grain of the top joints.
If the grain is aligned to the timber its pegging, any swelling can cause the sections to split. So you always make sure its turned at right angles to the direction of grain on the main sections(rails).
Started looking at an under stairs wardrobe that I started some time back again today. Carcass is built and installed in 18mm birch ply.
I knew wood prices were higher but holy shit. I reckon at least 100% more for custom cut panels than I paid back in may.
is it worth holding off for a bit or are these prices the new normal?
You might find a 25% drop after some time, but my guess is recent losses will be recouped by keeping a big chunk of the price hike in place, even after any supply chain issues have been dealt with.
We did a new timber shed in the second half of 2020, near 3K of materials all told, talk about timing.
Not quite up to many standards, as held together with screws, no fancy joints, but happy with first attempt at anything this big. My wife wanted some desks for us to work from home, so designed them so that it is basically a series of boxes designed around the Ikea Kallax box dimensions, that way i knew i could sneek in a few hundred records in the bottom, and the upper boxes would fit the kallax accessories, so she could have draws/ boxes etc from the range for storage easily, then fitted some LED strip lights in for a bit of extra lighting.
Next project will be similar to hold 400 more records and Technics and mixer on top on other side of room.
Recycled some French oak staves we use in tank wine, they’re exactly the right width. Beautiful timber to work with, but a little too warped to try any fancy joinery with.
I need to decide how to seal the paint first. I was planning on using spray varnish used for car wheels as it is fairly tough, clear, UV resistant and cheap but would love to hear from anyone with better ideas.
I will try and make a rotating display platform for it and stock it on the patio I think
Having bought a chunk of Mr Bezos’ latest mind control hardware, the Echo Show 15, I was buggered if I was going to fork out £29.99 for a stand for it, requiring the echo to be unscrewed to be able to turn it from landscape to portrait.
So, a chunk of wood later and tadaaaa. And yes it needs finishing etc etc.
If anyone has bought one of these devices, I’ve used the wall mount stand it comes with to mount the echo – just screwed it to the wood. So no extra bits needed apart from the wood and two long screws to fix the 3 pieces together.