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Bending wood - to build 1930s style radio case
OneLeftHandOneUndecided posted a topic in General Woodworking
Howdy, 1st post, European spy here (don't tell anyone!) I really like shapes of radios like this one: Emerson 38 (1935) yet more pics I have built stuff from wood before, and they tend to look like the cheaper IKEA stuff (even though I designed them :D). I do not have a workshop or machine park handy, so what I did so far was all very minimalistic and built "in place". That in mind: Is bending wood like that difficult? I am thinking about making a similar style case, and I want to put a DIY tube amplifier in there (plus some extra stuff). What type of wood is this even? The last photo, at the bottom of the page, to the top, slightly left of center of the back of the walls, there is a bit more contrast - looks like this is some type of plywood, with the middle part much thicker than the outer ones - or am I seeing things? Now, those sides do curve in yet another dimension - are they just panels that likely were made curved by some sort of subtractive process, and then just glued on inner, flat wood? But maybe I could do without them. The speaker area is a jigsaw job, eh? (I wish I had CNC not good at such precise stuff) All those embellished edges are probably too compliated / require very skilled work, not like just going over with a hand router. I guess I'd make it, if at all, simpler where it needs to, but try to beep the overall look & feel. What do you say? -
The kitchen side chairs had to take a back burner. My granddaughter has her 1st birthday this month. My present to her is Rita – the rocking Dinosaur. The inspiration for this rocking animal was from a book authored by Jeff Miller, entitle “Children’s Furniture Projects”. I did take much latitude to designing and construction. I scanned Jeff’s drawing into a JPG formatted file and then imported into Sketchup. Using Sketchup, I drew over the imported image, created a 3D model, and resized the model to suit my needs. Flat patterns were then printed in 1:1 scale. The paper patterns were glued to clear shelving paper using 3M spray adhesive onto ¼” MDF to develop 10 individual templates. Using the templates the dinosaur body was cut-out from ½”, 3/8”, and ¼” Baltic birch plywood. The main body has 5 pieces. Total part count is 52 pieces. The rocking runners were made from eleven, per side, 0.120’”hard maple pieces. The maple was bent formed using a MDF form and UNIBOND 1 adhesive. I like to trim the runners using a tall fence on the table saw. A safe way to doom the end of the ¾” dowel used for the handle, is to use a router table set-up. Some assembly required. The different subassemblies were glued and screwed together. Shown here are the 3 different inner main body pieces. Notice that the middle pieces are hollow. Similar for the flank subassembly. Because the main construction material was plywood, I glued in hardwood dowels in each attachment point and trimmed to fit. I introduce to you, RITA! Happy, birthday girl
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My son asked me to build him a computer desk. He gave me latitude for the design except for the length, depth, and height. I know that he would be adding a computer monitor bar and he wanted power and USB grommets installed in the top. Material: Top: 13/16 hard maple. Base: 1 x 2 cherry. Drawer: 5/8 hard maple Base construction: Front legs are cherry bent lamination with 14 degree cant. Drawer has box joint construction. Finish: Base has one coat BLO, one coat 1 ½ # shellac, one coat gel stain, and another coat 1 ½# shellac. Overall, everything has two coats pre-cat lacquer. I wanted the desk to be and to appear to be light weight. I know there will be a structural issue if someone sits on the desk top. I want the desk top to have a floating surface appearance, the base to have curves & angles; and the drawer to have a clean look. The inner form radius for the bent lamination was 7 7/8. The base joinery is M&T. Each joint was doweled with two ¼ dowels. Thanks for looking. Danl
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