Toolbox - WIP

[rspsteve]

Looking very good Carl....lots of Steves on here ..lol

 

[carlb40]

This is progressing very nicely, excellent stuff so far. I built a quick plywood cabinet from Fine Woodworking Tools and Shops edition but I want do a proper craftsman one (be after Roubo is finished ).

J

Thank you

Looking forward to both builds

 

[carlb40]

Looking very good Carl....lots of Steves on here ..lol

Thank you Steve.

 

[rspsteve]

Carl..take a look at this , you may have already seen it ..I think its fab!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enmp2VSO ... B4zpdKMEBo

 

[carlb40]

Yeah i have seen that, trouble is i got bored after about the 8th episode

 

[rspsteve]

GO TO THE END THEN..LOL it looks a very nice job.

 

[carlb40]

It's not tooo bad i guess. :-"

I think he needs to get a cordless drill ( a proper one :mrgreen: ) things would go quicker then. :lol:

 

[rspsteve]

And some power tools..lol could have finished it in 6 episodes instead of 13

 

[carlb40]

And some power tools..lol could have finished it in 6 episodes instead of 13

Power tools? :shock: That would mean a hair cut in case of it falling into a cutter etc . I can see it now just like in the cartoons, hair trapped in router bit and him spinning around in circles :lol:

 

[rspsteve]

well to a newbie it looks nice..cant wait to see yours ..

 

[carlb40]

A small update. The mitres have been giving me issues, which thankfully they are now sorted. Ended up having to trim another 1.5mm off the width of the base. :roll:
Anyhoo it all fits together nicely now. So onto some internal works.

I started off fitting the saw holder and dividers.

Each one has been glued on, one a day to allow the glue to go off properly and make life easier clamping them.

After that first strip was glued, i started to mask off the section next to the strips so the glue didn't go every where.

Clamping was awkward ish.

All the dividers are now glued into place.

So then after more sanding, i wasn't too happy with the lack of the curl showing up. I know it is just the base, but hey ho.
So i tried scraping, and the curl came back.

I then put the first coat of lacquer on the underside. Not good, i had brush marks and bubbles. :evil:

So this morning at 7am i was in the shop scraping it off. Applied another first coat, again lines and bubbles. :evil:
So left it till this evening and flatted it and tried a 2nd coat. More bubbles and brush marks. :twisted:

So think this might have to go on hold until i can get a decent lacquer brush. :roll:

 

[morfa]

Coming along nicely there. I feel your pain with lacquer. Painting and related tasks are always tricky like that.

 

[carlb40]

Coming along nicely there. I feel your pain with lacquer. Painting and related tasks are always tricky like that.

Thank you.

Painting/ varnishing etc are ok. It's just this water based lacquer giving me probs. Need to sort it as i need to lacquer the inside of the box before it can be assembled . #-o