Weekend projects

Re: Weekend projects

Jack from Maine

>Saturday the wife and I are travelling south to attend a fifth birthday party for my granddaughter. I'll be delivering a coffee mill I made to her Dad. I bought 6 kits from LV and made some for Christmas presents. This will be the fifth one I made. I highly recommend these for people new to woodworking. They're excellent practice projects.All you get is the cast iron mill and an instruction sheet for making the rest. I changed the plans cause they call for plywood and box joints.

This latest one is red oak with a maple drawer and ebony drawer front glued to a dovetailed drawer box.I also dovetailed the box that holds the mill.

Have a great weekend(I wish mine started tomorrow).---Crackerjack

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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>I found 17 1 3/16" thick, 24"x24" baltic birch plwood squares in the trash this morning and have thought up a design to turn them into storage drawers and top for two bech top p@wert@@ls.

I'll frame 3 sides with 2x4's on edge and stack then on top of each other. The hollows will make excellent shallow drawers. These cabinets will replace two workmates that I have the tools on now. the cabinets will take up less floor-space and will offer LOTS more storage than the Workmates do.

If I can get these done anything else will be gravey as it looks like I might end up going car shopping for my daughter. there is some poor slob of a car salesman out there right now who is fixing to have a life changing experiance because I am one Royal S.O.B. when it comes to dealing with them. I think car salesman are the scerge of the Earth and treat them accordingly. Freaking B@$t@rds, smile to your face and stab you in the back. Charlitains are what they are! Dirty rotten theivin', lyin' stinkin' S.O a Bing POS they are. Oh yeah, some sorry jackel is gonna get it this weekend!!

Todd O. wound up tighter 'n a top and frothing at the mouth already just thinking about it.

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Kevin French, Warner, NH

>Still moving, 18 loads in so far another 10 should do it. The dark side od Dump Finds

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Jeremy Osner

>I'm drawing plans for a breakfast nook in my kitchen, and starting work on the gate I'm building. And looking forward to the vacation I'll be taking at the end of next week.

Coffee Grinders

Brad in Ottawa

>I was just looking at those mechanisms in the catalogue yesterday! I was thinking the same thing regarding the box joints vs. dovetails.

Is the grinder good??? Would it stand up to some light use in a shop?

Thanks in advance!

Brad

Re: Coffee Grinders

Jack from Maine

>Not sure what you had in mind by way of shop use but the mechanism is solidly well built. It is quite functional as a coffee grinder.What were you thinking of grinding?---Jack

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Brad in Ottawa

>Coffee of course! ;)

I was wondering if it could be used to grind up shellac flakes. I've never used shellac flakes before and don't know if it would do a suitable job.

I was going to ask about the suitability of a grinder for this during a finishing chat night or ask in a separate post.

I know some people use electric spice grinders to cut up shellac flakes.

Brad

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Jack from Maine

>I don't see why not.All the parts are cast iron or steel.Easy enough to clean.---Jack

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John, NY

>So why do you want to grind up shellac flakes?

I ask because they are the one thing I thought i'd figured out...

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Brad in Ottawa

>I hope somebody with more experience might answer but I have read others use grinders to make the flakes easier to dissolve.

If you search the archives of the main message board you can see threads where grinding is usually one suggestion to avoid having flakes that don't totally dissolve.

But then again if your flakes are dissolving 100% I wouldn't worry about it!

Brad

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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>just go ahead and tell us what you really think; no sense in being so nice about it ;) I guess I'd have to say I would really hate my job if I had to go in to work and sell cars every day.

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Dennis

>Most used car salesmen sell old tools on ebay while they are waiting for new customer to come on the lot.

Thats my theory and iam sticky to it.

Dennis

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Coffee Mill Question

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Do they work well? Or are they mostly decorative?

Re: Weekend projects

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Todd,

3/16-inch is very thin plywood for any part of any decent-sized drawer, I think. How were you going to put them together?

Never mind.

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>I see that you already answered this.

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>SWMBO says the badgerhound ramp I built last weekend is too narrow, so I be making a wider ramp for them. Just as soon as the coffee kicks in.

You misunderstand Don

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>The pieces are 1&3/16" thick, or as I heard told one time 1 inch and 3 little ones.

Todd O.

Don,

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>How about just making the badgerhound narrower instead? ;~)

Todd O.

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Don Thompson - South of Miami

>You're right! I missed the "1".

Now I think they are too thick.

(g,d&r)

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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Yeah, you're right about them being to thick, but I fiqure what the heck, I've got no $$ in them, and the extra weight and mass might come in handy if I decide to press them into service as a temporary workbench or something. At least that's how I'm justifing using such thick stuff for this purpose to myself.

Todd O.

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>My nickname for Max is Fatboy. Anyway, I made the Deluxe, Grand, dachshund ramp system, and it works, and SWMBO was pleased.

Spice Grinders?

Don Thompson - South of Miami

>Would you please tell me more about electric spice grinders? I have never seen such a thing.