My saga of the 2010 Sawdust Chronicles Build Challenge continues.
The Build |
My milling equipment is set up
and ready to go. |
The build was done mostly with power tools. I prepped the stock with my jointer and planer and dimensioned with my table saw. I used a 5" random orbit sander to smooth the pieces once they were cut to size.
I ended up fabricating three (3) of the center sections as the first warped before I could tile it and I miss dereferenced a joinery mark on the second. As I had never tiled before and I had plenty of tile, I chose to tile one of the unusable center sections and the real section. Since both the mortar and grout had mixing ratios and pot lives I set the real tile immediately after the test tile and mortared the real tile immediately after the test tile. Even though this only gave me about 2 minutes practice, I feel it did help and Im glad I did it.
 |
The bottom lip and upper wing
section are Dominoed and ready. |
All of the joinery was done using Dominos and Tightbond III glue. I used Tightbond III because of its longer open time when compared to Tightbond II. As many of the glue ups were clamped at odd angles with custom made cauls, I wanted as much open time as I could easily get. Luckily, the glue ups went smoothly. Once the top section was done I smoothed some misalignment in the face with my block plane and flattened the back of the center section to the wings with my new Rotex in a moment of mental ineptitude (I bought the Rotex during the project with no intention to use it. As I did use it for this one step, it is included in my project expenses under power tools).
 |
Gluing the base/arm assembly to
the top assembly using one
funky looking caul. |
After 5 glue ups the book stand was assembled. It unfortunately needed dramatically more touch up sanding at this point than I was planning on, so I went to work with a variety of sanding sponges and my 5" random orbit sander. Once the sanding was finally done, I began with a 1 lb cut of shellac applied with a rag. After that I switched to the full 2 lb cut of Seal Coat and applied 5 more coats by rag, sanding with a "00" steel wool equivalent synthetic pad between coats. When the final coat of shellac was dry I installed a thin bead of tile caulk to act as an expansion joint between the glass tile and the walnut which surrounds it.
 |
| The completed book stand. |
My 2010 Build Challenge Photo Album
The Sawdust Chronicles 2010 Build Challenge, Part I
Related Posts by Categories
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar