Rustic Pine Dovetail Bench Seat

Submitted by Keith on Wednesday 01/11/2017

In this video I make a rustic pine dovetailed bench seat from an old pine dining table top

Repairing A Vintage Display Cabinet (Part 2 of 2)

Submitted by Keith on Wednesday 01/11/2017

In this video I repair and restore a vintage display cabinet. I sand and re-finish the top, re-finish the legs and make new shelves for it.

Repairing A Vintage Display Cabinet (Part 1 of 2)

Submitted by Keith on Wednesday 01/11/2017

In this video I repair and restore a vintage display cabinet. I sand and re-finish the top, re-finish the legs and make new shelves for it.

Hifi And Vinyl Unit Commission

Submitted by Keith on Tuesday 26/09/2017

In this video I make a commission hifi and vinyl unit from some plywood.

I started by designing what the client wanted in SketchUp.

I ripped the pieces of ply in to more manageable pieces using my circular saw and a straight edge, and then I could make the finer more accurate cuts on the tablesaw.

I cut mitre joints at each corner of the unit on the tablesaw using my panel cutting sled.

I also cut housing joints for the shelves.

I also used the biscuit jointer to install the front panel, just to get it perfectly aligned.

THE CHESS SET (PART 3 OF 3) - THE BOX

Submitted by Keith on Tuesday 26/09/2017
So in part 1 of this video series I made the chess board, and in part 2 I made the chess pieces, and in this video I'm going to be making a box to hold both the pieces and the board.
 
I'd mainly use mahogany for the box, this was an offcut from a wardrobe panel that I used to make this mahogany box recently.
 
I started by ripping it to the height that I wanted the sides of the box to be and then I cleaned up the pieces using my thickness planer.
 
The mahogany was quite thick, so to get more out of the ma

The Chess Set (Part 2 of 3) - The Chess Pieces

Submitted by Keith on Friday 01/09/2017
To make the chess pieces I'd use this offcut of sapele for the black pieces and some beech for the white pieces, so I started by ripping the beech to the same size as the sapele which was 27mm square.
 
This beech came from an old table frame that I found by some bins.  I also have the table top from the table which I haven't got round to using for anything yet.
 
Next I started cutting the pieces to length at the mitre saw.

The Chess Set (Part 1 of 3) - The Board

Submitted by Keith on Friday 01/09/2017
In this video I make a chess board.
 
In terms of materials for the chess board, I had four offcuts of mahogany, these are the feet from some salvaged hat and coat stands.  And I had a piece of what I believe to be Iroko although I might be wrong - I've had this for a while and I don't remember where I picked this up.
 
First I needed to prepare the two materials.

Handcut Dovetail & Brass Inlay Mahogany Wedding Box (Part 3 of 3)

Submitted by Keith on Friday 01/09/2017

The next job was to fit the piano hinge for the lid.  I cut the hinge to length with a hacksaw.

The hinge was around 3mm thick so I wanted to cut a recess for the hinge to sit in, in the rim of the box. 

Handcut Dovetail & Brass Inlay Mahogany Wedding Box (Part 2 of 3)

Submitted by Keith on Thursday 10/08/2017

With the four sides of the box assembled, I needed to flatten the edges ready for the top and bottom panels to be added.  I used some sandpaper stuck to a piece of flat melamine with sticky back tape for this.

I cleaned up the edges of the box and the dovetail joints at the belt sander.

Handcut Dovetail & Brass Inlay Mahogany Wedding Box (Part 1 of 3)

Submitted by Keith on Thursday 10/08/2017
In this video I'm going to be making a box as a gift for my brother and his fiance's wedding.  As it's a special occasion I wanted to make something a little special, so this is going to be my first attempt at handcut dovetails.
 
For materials I'm going to be using some reclaimed mahogany wardrobe panels.  Recently a work colleague of mine mentioned he had a couple of solid mahogany panels from an old wardrobe and he asked me if I wanted it for anything.

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