Cabinet Hardware

Our instructor, Nick, talking through how the newly installed drawer should function.
Our instructor, Nick, talking through how the newly installed drawer should function.
Checking to make sure things are level and lined up. Small note: we used splines for the corner joints.
A nice thing about our class time: oftentimes, there aren’t a lot of other people, using the table saws. This is a view of the main area, where we do most of our cuts.
On seeing this, I have two thoughts. First: that’s a lot of clamps. Second: you can never have too many clamps.
Working with Nick, our instructor, learning how to use a sliding table saw.
Our next project (which I probably won’t end up finishing in time): a two piece plant stand.
Tonight, we got a walkthrough of the pieces we needed… and we set about measuring, marking, and cutting.
The students in the class are all over the place, in terms of the projects they’re currently working on. Some are pretty far ahead, some are far behind. But we all more or less paused, to work on getting the materials prepped for this project.
I’m happy to say that my cuts this time around were better. I was definitely a lot more cautious, and much slower and more deliberate with my actions.
Is it weird to say that I was stressed out the entire time? I was pretty stressed out the entier time.
Gibbs, who officially has the role of Supervisor/Inspector/Greetor. Need to get a better photo of him, but he just rambles through the rooms at his leisure.
He’s never actively looking for food or pets. I think he’s just wandering around to check things out.
While the two of us are not without some modicum of rudimentary skills… we’re both looking at some of the more advanced courses (all of which require you to go through the 100-level intro courses). And Liz and I both felt like we could stand to get some basics under our belts.
I know the YouTube channel is chock full of neat projects. But what I really need to do is track down the “making of” videos for all his storage and tool builds!
The Fenland Black Oak Project aims to transform the “Jubilee Oak,” a 42-foot long subfossilised Black Oak tree discovered in 2012, into a single, impossibly long table.
What took us the better part of Sunday to complete, we knocked out in just over two hours. Liz and I were both very proud of ourselves, in that we really felt like we were learning from our previous sessions… and were feeling a little more confident about our motions and decisions.
For me, this part of the process was the most daunting. I was worried about screwing something up. After a few pilot holes though… I quickly became more comfortable about the process.
Our process was more or less this: we’d cut off about an inch off one end. Then we’d flip the board around, having measured the distance from the end stop to the saw blade. We double checked this quite often, but once we got things aligned… we more or less knew that any piece of wood placed against the stop would result in the desired length.
I’m not sure if this is due to the pressure treated lumber being new (sometimes it’s wet), or due to the wood being outside during yesterday’s snow/rain storm. Either way, some of these boards were sopping wet and were about 5x heavier than I expected them to be.