Hoang N Nguyen
08-08-2016, 11:25 AM
Hi all,
Just wanted to share a recent project I just finished. This was a "mother's day" gift to my wife but ended up being about a month late and I started in Feb. Granted I only work on it a few hours a night and maybe a whole weekend when I find the time.
The whole project is constructed from melamine with edge banding. Drawers were 6/4 poplar resaw to 1/2" with a melamine front. All the joinery was done with my domino, about 600-700 of them in all. Drawers joinery was done with a drawer lock bit.
The wife also came up with the great idea of putting wall paper on the backer boards which added nearly 2 weeks to the project and lots of adult language. It took a lot of time because I was only able to apply the wall paper to just one sheet of 1/4" ply at a time. I then had to rip them down to the width I needed and glue up the partial piece to a new whole sheet and repeat the process. The other part was due to the fact I've never done wall paper before so it was a slow process.
The corner pieces were a bit of a challenge since they were so big and heavy, making moving them on my own extremely difficult. I tried to assemble what I could inside the closet to reduce the amount of moving. I still had to walk it to it's final position and my back wasn't happy about it. The rounded inside corner pieces were cut on a CNC router at work, the rest was cut at home using my track saw and table saw. The trim pieces on top and bottom were also cut out on the CNC as well, there's no way I'm doing all that by hand, not even with a pattern bit. It took half an hour to cut nearly 70 pieces on the CNC, that saved me a ton of time. I tried to avoid using the CNC as much as possible, I just felt like it was cheating too much and wanted to know that I built this, not a machine.
54 slots for shoes in all and the wife said it was only enough for half of her inventory. Most of which I've never seen her wear. I'll never understand women.
Anyways, here are some pictures. Sorry if they're crappy, I used my phone and didn't have much room to get a wide shot.
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Just wanted to share a recent project I just finished. This was a "mother's day" gift to my wife but ended up being about a month late and I started in Feb. Granted I only work on it a few hours a night and maybe a whole weekend when I find the time.
The whole project is constructed from melamine with edge banding. Drawers were 6/4 poplar resaw to 1/2" with a melamine front. All the joinery was done with my domino, about 600-700 of them in all. Drawers joinery was done with a drawer lock bit.
The wife also came up with the great idea of putting wall paper on the backer boards which added nearly 2 weeks to the project and lots of adult language. It took a lot of time because I was only able to apply the wall paper to just one sheet of 1/4" ply at a time. I then had to rip them down to the width I needed and glue up the partial piece to a new whole sheet and repeat the process. The other part was due to the fact I've never done wall paper before so it was a slow process.
The corner pieces were a bit of a challenge since they were so big and heavy, making moving them on my own extremely difficult. I tried to assemble what I could inside the closet to reduce the amount of moving. I still had to walk it to it's final position and my back wasn't happy about it. The rounded inside corner pieces were cut on a CNC router at work, the rest was cut at home using my track saw and table saw. The trim pieces on top and bottom were also cut out on the CNC as well, there's no way I'm doing all that by hand, not even with a pattern bit. It took half an hour to cut nearly 70 pieces on the CNC, that saved me a ton of time. I tried to avoid using the CNC as much as possible, I just felt like it was cheating too much and wanted to know that I built this, not a machine.
54 slots for shoes in all and the wife said it was only enough for half of her inventory. Most of which I've never seen her wear. I'll never understand women.
Anyways, here are some pictures. Sorry if they're crappy, I used my phone and didn't have much room to get a wide shot.
342090342091342092342093342095342096342097