| Blog series by pashley | updated 09-02-2013 03:14 AM | 2 parts | 8374 reads | 10 comments total |
Part 1: Contact, Concept, Closing
If you been following my (actually very good) ShopNotes blog on my website, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of the website custommade.com. I’ve got many jobs from there – good jobs. I highly recommend them to the guy trying to become professional. About a month ago, a customer didn’t put a job up for bids by makers, as is the usual case there; instead, he just selected me, and said, “Can you make this for me?” Turns out, he wanted rather large mission st...
Part 2: Sides and Front Panel
The sides, as shown are done; The front panel is not; having a hard time finding the right ray flecked QSWO to resaw, as I cannot get good veneer…ugh. It’s a bear to re-saw QSWO, although the book matching look is wonderful. Also note that I am using an assembly technique taken from wood bed frames – see previous post.
