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Lets just saw that the last couple of days have been the best days we've seen in 2016 so far. So, yesterday I went for a long motorcycle ride and then a short bicycle ride and then watered plants and so....didn't work in my shop at all.
Today I went for a slightly longer bicycle ride and spent some time in the yard watering plants too. (it is very, very dry currently).
I did actually do a little bit of wood working today. As well as I did some designing and planning. I have a couple of small wood carving projects pending and am trying to work out what best to do.
The work I did today was with the skid wood that I brought home last week. Today I did what I always seem to have to do before a project. I made some narrow boards wider.
I love the new glues, they make edge gluing boards so easy. Once quality glue sets it is often stronger than the wood it has glued together.
If you are going to edge glue boards you can never have to many clamps. I have four sets of board sitting in my shop with the glue drying, therefore I needed 12 clamps. I used bar clamps, pipe clamps and Bessey F clamps.
Tomorrow I will take the clamps off and cut the rough skid wood to length and build a flower box with glue and wood pins. Even though the wood is humble and the purpose is humble I can't knock the box together with screws or nails that will bleed rust. Eva's garden is too nice to have rust stained flower boxes.
Now, be prepared for tomorrow to be another beautiful, sunny, warm day and so there will be a motorcycle ride in the mix some place. It needs to settle in for a few days of rain before I am really going to be lured back into the shop just now. We have waited through a delayed spring for riding weather and now I am not going to let it pass by un-appreciated.
cheers, ianw
roll on Summer !
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Showing posts with label edge glue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edge glue. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Roll On Summer
Friday, November 11, 2011
A Small Job Gets Big
Sometimes a seemingly little project turns out to have way more steps and stages than you orgianlly thoughts. In this recent case was I asked to finish 24 shelves for a local customer of mine. He provided the finishing products and I was just supposed to save him time and effort, Pavlo is a good businessman and a good customer so this is a good situation for both of us.
He recently purchased some wire shelf units to display his pottery at local shows. On the box it says the shelves are 18 x 48 inches in size. (this is an outside measurement) He asked me to buy wood and seal, stain and varnish the wooden shelves to sit on the wire unit’s shelves.
A job could not be more straight forward, in theory.
In reality this is the job:
The shelf space in not really 18 x 48, it is 17 ¼ by 47 ⅜, those are the inside measurements of the shelves, so that is the size the wood shelves need to be. Pre-fab “pine” shelving comes in 16 or 20 inch widths, not 17 ¼.
The solution is to buy 16x96 shelf stock and cut it to length, then a couple of extra shelves and rip off narrow pieces to be edge glued on to make up the balance of the width. Then cut all the corners at a 45 degree angle to make room for the section of pipe that is in each corner of the medal shelves. After this is done all the edges have to be broken with a plane and the glue lines sanded. I only have enough clamps to glue up 4 shelves at a time so there is some juggling being done to make maximum use of the time.
Once the shelf is glued and cut up it needs to be sanded, then coated with wood conditioner and then stained, then varnished.
My plan is to get 12 shelves advanced along the process to where I am varnishing all 12 at once ( three coats) since that will close the shop down totally for at least a day if not two while things dry.
Luckily I am able to do the edge gluing, the 20 inch boards are much more expensive (4 times) than the narrow boards and since they would still need to be shortened and the corners done the added labour of gluing is still cheaper than the wider boards.
When I am done Pavlo will have 24 wooden insert shelves and I will have invested several part days building, gluing and waiting. Unless a person works with their hands or is very observant they would never guess how many things had to be done to get that nice little piece of wood onto the shelf to show off the wonderful pottery
He recently purchased some wire shelf units to display his pottery at local shows. On the box it says the shelves are 18 x 48 inches in size. (this is an outside measurement) He asked me to buy wood and seal, stain and varnish the wooden shelves to sit on the wire unit’s shelves.
A job could not be more straight forward, in theory.
In reality this is the job:
The shelf space in not really 18 x 48, it is 17 ¼ by 47 ⅜, those are the inside measurements of the shelves, so that is the size the wood shelves need to be. Pre-fab “pine” shelving comes in 16 or 20 inch widths, not 17 ¼.
The solution is to buy 16x96 shelf stock and cut it to length, then a couple of extra shelves and rip off narrow pieces to be edge glued on to make up the balance of the width. Then cut all the corners at a 45 degree angle to make room for the section of pipe that is in each corner of the medal shelves. After this is done all the edges have to be broken with a plane and the glue lines sanded. I only have enough clamps to glue up 4 shelves at a time so there is some juggling being done to make maximum use of the time.
Once the shelf is glued and cut up it needs to be sanded, then coated with wood conditioner and then stained, then varnished.
My plan is to get 12 shelves advanced along the process to where I am varnishing all 12 at once ( three coats) since that will close the shop down totally for at least a day if not two while things dry.
Luckily I am able to do the edge gluing, the 20 inch boards are much more expensive (4 times) than the narrow boards and since they would still need to be shortened and the corners done the added labour of gluing is still cheaper than the wider boards.
When I am done Pavlo will have 24 wooden insert shelves and I will have invested several part days building, gluing and waiting. Unless a person works with their hands or is very observant they would never guess how many things had to be done to get that nice little piece of wood onto the shelf to show off the wonderful pottery
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