Laundry hamper

DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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not that im totally againts sketchup …

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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Life's too short. I'll use paper. When it's wrong, I can set it on fire.
- Dave Polaschek

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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not that im totally againts sketchup …

I just feel that I m remiss if I didn t review/suggest more modern techniques to some of our aged LJ members (no implies here DP)...

If it wasn t for upgrades, we d all be using that B&D Orange Drill, with just a tad of runout, to make that 1/8"... sorry, 3/16"... oops again, 1/4"... 5/16"... damn, 1/2"... sound better in metric.

Next I ll be reprimanded for NOT selfishly asking my 2B wife,

if she had strong hair!

Move to SketchUP is nearly as easy a transition as a western saw upgrade to a Jap Saw.

- LittleBlackDuck

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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Life's too short. I'll use paper. When it's wrong, I can set it on fire.
- Dave Polaschek

May you be protected form the greenies and Greta Thunberg... life may just get shorter!

- LittleBlackDuck

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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No, Ducky, I'd be using my Ixion drill that I refurbished.

Sketchup, or switching to a Japanese saw would be a step backwards.

- Dave Polaschek

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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Dave, This load of dirty washing has gone off the rails for sure.

Me, I'm a pencil and paper bloke!

New things on the computer do my head in, but saying that so does reading plans.

I hope you can get this project sorted quickly satisfying all of them above with a first class result.

- crowie

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

More to follow…

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

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DavePolaschek said:

Introduction and doors

I want to build a laundry hamper for the bedroom. I figure it'll be frame and panel construction, with doors with a lattice in them so the stinky clothes can breathe a little. And I want to build it around my existing plastic laundry baskets, which are just the right size for our washer and dryer.

So I made a sketch (four squares to a foot for the bigger drawings, so each square is three inches, four squares to an inch for the profile of the sticks). The lower left shows the side view, the right shows the front of a door, and the upper left shows the profile of the door frame. My #10 round isn't holding the blade well, so rather than making a curve in that profile, I'll make a flat.

Got started yesterday. Took a board of 4/4 ash from the stash and planed the flat sides flat, plus one edge. It was about 30" long, with a waney edge, but I figure I can get all four sticks for one door frame from it. After getting the long edge squared, I marked a line 1½" from that edge, and sawed off the stick with the bandsaw. Then quickly planed the two edges I'd just cut flat. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had two 30 inch sticks a two shorter (15 and 21 inch) sticks.

I used the combination plane to put a ¼" wide groove down the "inside" edge of each stick, then marked lines ¼ and ½ inch from the front inside corner and used a rabbet plane to take off the corner down to the lines.

I think that's going to be it for today. I cracked one of the sticks while clamping it in the twin-screw vise to put the beveled corner on, so it was time to get out of the shop and not make things worse.

Tomorrow I'll start making the slats to go within the doors, or maybe start making the frame for the second door. I've got a few reasons to want to do the doors first. One is that they'll be the trickiest bit, so I'd like to get them done. Second, I need to know the weight of the doors in order to know which of the Sugatsune HDS-10S closers I need to buy. I figure the doors will be drop-fronts, so I can easily pull out a basket full of dirty clothes to take it to the washer.

More to follow…

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