Here is a picture of the wine rack portion with once all of the glue had dried but before the caulking and painting.
Here it is all painted up. You can also see in here the sawtooth shelf hangers that are discussed in the next post.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Trim on Front of Wine Rack
The trim on the front of the wine rack was finished up this weekend. We thought that it would take a long time to get it all done but it was actually quite quick. The molding stock was made using a scratch plane on the edge of a board then ripped off on the table saw. None of the pieces are the same so they all had to be cut by hand. This is pretty quick with the Japanese pull saw. As you can see in the picture below the joints are pretty good but I still went over them with some caulk prior to painting.
Here is a picture of the wine rack portion with once all of the glue had dried but before the caulking and painting.
Here it is all painted up. You can also see in here the sawtooth shelf hangers that are discussed in the next post.
Here is a picture of the wine rack portion with once all of the glue had dried but before the caulking and painting.
Here it is all painted up. You can also see in here the sawtooth shelf hangers that are discussed in the next post.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Paneling
Now that the door frame is done, we are back to paneling the dining room and finishing that up. As you can see, the animals like to help with all our projects.
More Pantry
Here are a couple pictures of the pantry with the wine rack cabinet installed and with our new outlet and under counter light to shine on the fir countertop. The light will be automatically turned on when the doors open. We are now working on the face framing of the wine rack.
Building Up Pantry Doors
A little bit of time was spent over the weekend making one jig and one tool to let me make the paneled doors. The jig is designed to hold the center panel stock vertical as it rides along the table saw fence. This lets me cant the blade over 8 degrees to cut the angled portion of the panel. In addition to this angled cut there was one very shallow cut that was made on the face to define the end of the angle. Here is a picture of the finished panels after they have been cut. To keep them stable and because they are being painted the panels are made of 0.5 inch mdf.
The tool that was made was a router table to mount the router that Kristen's parents got me for Christmas. I don't have any pictures yet of the table but it is sitting on a sheet metal base that originally came with the chop saw. The actual table is a sheet of 0.75 inch hardwood plywood that is about 4 feet long. Under this top the router is mounted with through bolts. The wood that is being routed runs along a 4 foot long L shaped fence that is mounted to the top.
So....with the new router table the rails and stiles were cut for the doors with a matching router bit set. Here is a picture of them all stacked up ready to assemble.
Here is a picture of the frame dryfit with the panel installed. When it was glued up the panel was left floating to allow for expansion and contraction of the door. This should not be too much of an issue with the MDF panel but it was done as a precaution.
And here is the picture of the door with the first coat of paint put on. With some sanding and planing to get it to fit the opening the pantry will almost be done!
The tool that was made was a router table to mount the router that Kristen's parents got me for Christmas. I don't have any pictures yet of the table but it is sitting on a sheet metal base that originally came with the chop saw. The actual table is a sheet of 0.75 inch hardwood plywood that is about 4 feet long. Under this top the router is mounted with through bolts. The wood that is being routed runs along a 4 foot long L shaped fence that is mounted to the top.
So....with the new router table the rails and stiles were cut for the doors with a matching router bit set. Here is a picture of them all stacked up ready to assemble.
Here is a picture of the frame dryfit with the panel installed. When it was glued up the panel was left floating to allow for expansion and contraction of the door. This should not be too much of an issue with the MDF panel but it was done as a precaution.
And here is the picture of the door with the first coat of paint put on. With some sanding and planing to get it to fit the opening the pantry will almost be done!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Pantry Wine Rack Unit
This last weekend we started working on the last unit in the pantry that goes above the base unit with the fir top. This is the unit that was redesigned to have the wine rack in the top portion of it. The first picture shows the plywood frame that is the base to the whole unit.
The wine rack portion is a little more complicated than the rest of the unit so I thought it would be good to have a full size layout to measure and and cut all of the pieces.
With a little bit of measuring and accurate cutting on the tablesaw all of the diagonal pieces were cut and the fit checked in the opening. In addition, a bunch of other spacers to go the other direction were cut.
At this point some of the pieces were assembled and some were kept loose so that I would be able to install everything. We took this opportunity to put a couple of coats of paint on all of the surfaces except those where a glue joint will be needed. In addition the back was put on the cabinet and the inside of the wine rack portion was painted.
Here the wine rack portion is installed in its cavity. It took a little while to get all of the spacers lined up and everything in place. It might look a little strange....but only the central 11 holes will be accessible. The rest of the holes will be covered by the trim piece around the top and sides. It will make a little more sense when the front trim gets installed.
The wine rack portion is a little more complicated than the rest of the unit so I thought it would be good to have a full size layout to measure and and cut all of the pieces.
With a little bit of measuring and accurate cutting on the tablesaw all of the diagonal pieces were cut and the fit checked in the opening. In addition, a bunch of other spacers to go the other direction were cut.
At this point some of the pieces were assembled and some were kept loose so that I would be able to install everything. We took this opportunity to put a couple of coats of paint on all of the surfaces except those where a glue joint will be needed. In addition the back was put on the cabinet and the inside of the wine rack portion was painted.
Here the wine rack portion is installed in its cavity. It took a little while to get all of the spacers lined up and everything in place. It might look a little strange....but only the central 11 holes will be accessible. The rest of the holes will be covered by the trim piece around the top and sides. It will make a little more sense when the front trim gets installed.
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