Sunday, October 26, 2008

Amy's Surprise Part 2

So, I finaly got back in the shop with Trinity to finish (or so we were hoping) Amy's Kitchen-Kubby. (That's my amazingly clever name for it.)

So when we left our daring hero last he was trapped... oops, wrong story. When we finished last we had only made the 3 box sets. I went to work making the trim that goes along the top while Trinity started manufacturing the boards for the drawers.

The boxes are 39 inches wide, so with a radius of 1.5 inches, the box would allow 13 circles to fit tangentialy. I made them with a radius of 1.75 inches so they would over lap just right. Setting the center each radius 1 inch from the top of the trim gave enough material at the top to allow them to be attached to each box.

Trinity cut the trim out with the bandc saw after I had stenciled out the patern on each trim.


You're probably noticing a patern of Trinity doing most of the work with the large machines. The first reason is that he knows what he's doing and the second is that they belong to his employer and you can imagine all the legal issues that could come up if something happened... but mostly because he REALLY knows what he's doing... No, seriously, look this guy up if you want anything done wood-work-wise. Their shop is amazing!!...



After everything was cut out I glued them to the tops of each box and I tacked them on with a nail gun.













The boxes needed a lot of work pluggin the screw holes and sanding, so Trinity started building the drawers while I was working on the boxes.


The drawer is suppose to stick out from the front of the box with a beveled face to allow a better view at what's inside.










So, Trinity and I had the boys (he has a son the same age as Mitchel) and we got pretty involved and were there until midnight. The boys were great though. They played around in the sawdust in the shop and with some big lego blocks Trinity brought. Around 9:00 they got pretty hungry, so we made a Taco Bell run and set up the DVD player in Trinity's truck, which we pulled inside the shop to allow for better "baby monitoring." The boys were such troopers and they had a blast! The shop is right by the rail road tracks. They went nuts and made sure we took them outside to see the it go by.









Here is the finished product! (It still has a couple things to build, such as a base and the guides for the drawers... along with a couple "Zack" touches which are classified, but they will be released after Amy has seen them.) Anyway, I think it's coming along great and I can't wait to put some paint on it, glaze it, distress it and then lacquer it. What do you guys think?


Sorry for how goofed the pictures and text are... I don't know what happened and trying to fix it just made things go crazy!!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Fountain...

So, while I'm waiting for schedules to work out to finish Amy's Kitchen-Kuby I started a couple other projects for Amy and also for my mom.

This is the fountain my father and I have been working on for a couple weeks. I didn't get any before and after pictures to give you an idea of the structure under the fountain, but I'll just say it involved a bit of a retaining wall, a lot of cinder blocks and some serious construction glue. The sides are still not finished (the membrane can be seen along the edges) and we're still tinkering with the flows, but it's pretty much finished. Here's a couple of pictures.






The pictures make it look pretty 2 dimensional. I'll see if I can add a video or something...