Blog series by cowboyup3371 | updated 09-29-2020 02:39 AM | 3 parts | 1567 reads | 1 comment total |
Part 1: Setting this blog aside
I’m just establishing this blog for a future project to start in the next month or two
Part 2: Finally Started
The wife asked me a few years ago to build a new entertainment center to hold her Breyer Horse models and obviously the TV yet it sat on my back burner. Then, last year, the wife won a 65” flat screen as part of a raffle at work and so I decided I needed to get serious about it. Although my workshop is good sized, we don’t have a lot of storage space for project work. Consequently, after drawing up the project plans below, I decided to start on the smaller work first since that...
Part 3: Resawing Saves the Day
Wanted to cut the walnut pieces for the drawers today but our little 10” bandsaw wouldn’t do the trick so what to do? Oh yea, that video I watched a couple of weeks ago about using the table saw will do the job nicely. After cutting the just over 1” thick piece of walnut in half, I messed up the planing of one piece where it ended at 7/32” of an inch instead of the 1/4” I needed. So, of course, a second attempt with another piece now means I can start on the s...