Ted Jay
03-25-2006, 12:20 AM
Hi everyone,
My name is Ted
New to the site, kinda. I’ve a few post under my belt. Just wanting to make it official and say “HI”, and I’m glad to be here. I lurked for a while, learning more. My woodworking experience started out making speaker cabinets 20+ years ago, but nothing full time hobby wise. Mostly work, and the occasional woodworking project involving a deck in the backyard, a pool deck, patio deck, picnic tables. Basically, plus or minus ½” projects, except the speaker cabinets, whose tolerances demanded better fit-up like furniture.
Here are some of the outdoor projects: (the picture police will be pleased, but the bandwidth police won’t be.)
I have a neighbor who helped me build the deck, shed and cover in the pictures above. I did all the design work, and planning that went into those three projects, and it took awhile to complete, 2 years working available weekends only. I’m not done, there are a few issues I need to address still, nothing major.
(FWIW: My neighbor used to build custom pool tables, from scratch, and has probably forgotten more about woodworking than I’ll ever know. He’s in his early 40’s years old and just gave it up, but I still pick his brain from time to time.)
The wife and I had decided to revamp the master bath, and switching the shower stall and toilet locations with each other. (Going from a 32” square shower pan, to about 4’x3’ area, more room is nice.)
I redesigned the cabinets to be 4” taller, (saving our backs), and 6” deeper. The drawers in the cabinets are standard length, (the 6” extra rear space allowed me extra room to route the drains and supply lines from their original stub-out from the wall, to the new locations. I had no desire to tear out wall board and redo plumbing.) I also designed the top, and higher backsplash, and it was fabbed by a company out in our area, made from resin type material with a faux marble look.
Now I have to admit that I did not do the cabinet work, but the man who did, built it to my drawings. (At the time I was working 60 hrs week at my job and loss of the bathroom for an extended period of time was not an option. You tell the wife that the bathroom won’t be finished for three months and see what she says….)
Well, at the present time I have the urge to build furniture, specifically an entertainment center around the big screen. I’m into guitars, so I would like to build a guitar. I recently built a prototype speaker cab for my guitar amp, I just got some Transtint Dyes in and I’m going to try to finish it this weekend or next. I still have to do more work on the cover grill.
Well that the story so far, everything is a work in progress, or half done.
Any questions???
My name is Ted
New to the site, kinda. I’ve a few post under my belt. Just wanting to make it official and say “HI”, and I’m glad to be here. I lurked for a while, learning more. My woodworking experience started out making speaker cabinets 20+ years ago, but nothing full time hobby wise. Mostly work, and the occasional woodworking project involving a deck in the backyard, a pool deck, patio deck, picnic tables. Basically, plus or minus ½” projects, except the speaker cabinets, whose tolerances demanded better fit-up like furniture.
Here are some of the outdoor projects: (the picture police will be pleased, but the bandwidth police won’t be.)
I have a neighbor who helped me build the deck, shed and cover in the pictures above. I did all the design work, and planning that went into those three projects, and it took awhile to complete, 2 years working available weekends only. I’m not done, there are a few issues I need to address still, nothing major.
(FWIW: My neighbor used to build custom pool tables, from scratch, and has probably forgotten more about woodworking than I’ll ever know. He’s in his early 40’s years old and just gave it up, but I still pick his brain from time to time.)
The wife and I had decided to revamp the master bath, and switching the shower stall and toilet locations with each other. (Going from a 32” square shower pan, to about 4’x3’ area, more room is nice.)
I redesigned the cabinets to be 4” taller, (saving our backs), and 6” deeper. The drawers in the cabinets are standard length, (the 6” extra rear space allowed me extra room to route the drains and supply lines from their original stub-out from the wall, to the new locations. I had no desire to tear out wall board and redo plumbing.) I also designed the top, and higher backsplash, and it was fabbed by a company out in our area, made from resin type material with a faux marble look.
Now I have to admit that I did not do the cabinet work, but the man who did, built it to my drawings. (At the time I was working 60 hrs week at my job and loss of the bathroom for an extended period of time was not an option. You tell the wife that the bathroom won’t be finished for three months and see what she says….)
Well, at the present time I have the urge to build furniture, specifically an entertainment center around the big screen. I’m into guitars, so I would like to build a guitar. I recently built a prototype speaker cab for my guitar amp, I just got some Transtint Dyes in and I’m going to try to finish it this weekend or next. I still have to do more work on the cover grill.
Well that the story so far, everything is a work in progress, or half done.
Any questions???