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A Closet Affair

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Yes I’m not happy about the darker color. We’ll see what the look like after I put a little finish on them. May have to remake the panel. 
Paul

11 hours ago, Masonsailor said:

Yes I’m not happy about the darker color. We’ll see what the look like after I put a little finish on them. May have to remake the panel. 
Paul

If you have any wood bleach you could try that on it.

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I ended up swapping the verticals which put the garf against the wall.  A little more work but all is well. Today started the assembly process. 
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Nice save Paul. I'm confident with your skills, you'll blend it perfectly with the final finish. Guessing only you will be able to discern it.

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Thanks for the confidence Dave. I put some oil finish on it to test the waters and it didn’t blend well. I rearranged the panels and with a little more routering managed make that a side that goes against the wall which resolved the problem. 
Paul 

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Today was get the carcasses up the stairs and then spent the rest of the day routering the lazy Susan’s. 
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Is that "domino" tape expensive? I assume leftover fragments is not reusable? Is it a random pattern or recurring pattern of dots. Just curious. It amazes me with the CNC technology within a handheld device.

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No it’s pretty reasonable. It’s $22 for 150 ft roll. You dont use that much of it. For most projects you use tape boards that you make up which you use over and over. I think in three years I’ve used about six rolls. It’s an amazing technology. It orients the router to .001”

Paul

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We finished up the lazy Susan’s and the shelving for them. They are ready for finish. 
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Nice!

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Sunday we applied the finish and installed the lazy susans. Today I started the process of butcher blocking the red cedar for the drawers. 
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I started the process of making the drawers today. I normally use plywood for the bottoms but I have been having a lot of issues with the ply warping or “potato chipping”. I’ve even tried baltic birch. These are pretty large drawers 20” X 46” so stability is an issue. I decided to make my own out of half inch soft maple. I glued them up in approx 3” strips and tomorrow or Sat will mill them to 1/2” and start assembling them. 
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The last few days have been busy but now the cedar drawers are ready for assembly tomorrow. 
Paul

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I bet the shop is smelling really nice.

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It is. What a great smell cedar has. Whenever you are making a chest of drawers or in this case a linen closet it makes for really nice drawers. When you are doing a chest of drawers only one drawer needs to be cedar. 
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