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07-20-2008, 11:40 PM
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Name: Bas City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 35 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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It's amazing how insidious this hobby is. Whenever I'd travel, I used to just put my stuff in the drawer, and that'd be the end if it. But since I took up woodworking...
Latest hotel: Baltic birch plywood drawers, dovetailed. Full extension slides, but fairly cheap ones. Hardware has been replaced, machine screw not properly countersunk. Top drawer doesn't close properly, when filled automatically opens 1-2". Triangular support blocks (made from plywood) help keep the drawer bottom in place. This isn't normally visible, you have to really look underneath.
Not sure what material the drawer face is. Looks like maple, but what do I know about wood? Front is stained an ugly dark color, probably in a futile attempt to make it look like walnut.
Gaudy painted faux gold accents.
Various pieces of trim and molding around the cabinet. Miters are reasonably tight, trim is nailed every 12" or so, not the greatest job on filling the nail holes, but not bad.
Desk is the same ugly dark color, but has nicely tapered legs. Apron and trim are done very well, no gaps. Desk drawer is also BB, some gaps in the dovetails. Cheap slides, not full extension, sticking. Interior of the desk is 3/4" MDF and BB plywood.
I think I'll go watch TV now. 
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07-20-2008, 11:51 PM
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Name: Cathy City: Forest City State: NC County: Rutherford Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 53 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I used to think I was the only one who did that. We still open drawers everywhere we go....
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07-20-2008, 11:52 PM
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Name: Wayne City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Dec 2005 Age: 61 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Don't feel bad, Bas!!!
At the dinner table this evening, my LOML asked me "what is so interesting out in the back yard?" "You have been starin' out of the window for the last ten minutes!" I thought that I was being inconspicuously trying to figure out an easy way to cut and fit window mullions!!!  .... 
I too check out furniture construction from all angles when I'm out!!! 
Wayne
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07-20-2008, 11:53 PM
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Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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OK so there is someone else who opens cabinet doors, and drawers and looks closely at their construction. My wife has been making fun of me for this for years.
I don't know if I should feel solitude or shame that Bas is just like me
Dave 
__________________   Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools. 
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself" 
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
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07-20-2008, 11:58 PM
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Name: Mark City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I thought everybody did that!! 
Go
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07-21-2008, 12:09 AM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Bas  It's amazing how insidious this hobby is. Whenever I'd travel, I used to just put my stuff in the drawer, and that'd be the end if it. But since I took up woodworking...
Latest hotel: Baltic birch plywood drawers, dovetailed. Full extension slides, but fairly cheap ones. Hardware has been replaced, machine screw not properly countersunk. Top drawer doesn't close properly, when filled automatically opens 1-2". Triangular support blocks (made from plywood) help keep the drawer bottom in place. This isn't normally visible, you have to really look underneath.
Not sure what material the drawer face is. Looks like maple, but what do I know about wood? Front is stained an ugly dark color, probably in a futile attempt to make it look like walnut.
Gaudy painted faux gold accents.
Various pieces of trim and molding around the cabinet. Miters are reasonably tight, trim is nailed every 12" or so, not the greatest job on filling the nail holes, but not bad.
Desk is the same ugly dark color, but has nicely tapered legs. Apron and trim are done very well, no gaps. Desk drawer is also BB, some gaps in the dovetails. Cheap slides, not full extension, sticking. Interior of the desk is 3/4" MDF and BB plywood.
I think I'll go watch TV now. Spoken like a true flat sider 
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07-21-2008, 12:10 AM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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OMG, I thought I was the only one that did that!! And it has been happening more frequently since I joined this wonderful community
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The task is always worthwhile if you learn something in the process.
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07-21-2008, 10:47 PM
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Name: Phillip Cooper City: Maiden State: NC County: Catawba Join Date: Dec 2006 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Well, go ahead and add another one to the list, I've been caught doing it too, even in stores where the stuff is for sale. I check out construction on stuff and realize how much better I can make it than they did, it just takes time and patience, and better materials. I've had salesmen to get peeved at me over it too. At least I know now that I'm not the only one doing it, every body that knows anything about building stuff seems to do it. My excuse before was I'd be looking for construction ideas, now i look to see how NOT to build stuff if it looks cheap. 
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07-21-2008, 10:54 PM
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Name: Jon Todd City: Pfafftown State: NC County: Forsyth Join Date: Feb 2007 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Bas just wait when you get a lathe you will have even more to look for
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07-22-2008, 09:16 AM
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Name: Charles City: Wilmington State: NC County: New Hanover Join Date: Nov 2005 Age: 61 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Epidemic going on around here. I was in an antique shop last month with loml. She started to miss me and found me under a small (maybe not so small) table, trying to see how it was put together. | |
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07-22-2008, 10:20 AM
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Name: Steve City: Raleigh State: NC County: Wake Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Bas It's amazing how insidious this hobby is. Whenever I'd travel, I used to just put my stuff in the drawer, and that'd be the end if it. But since I took up woodworking...
Latest hotel: Baltic birch plywood drawers, dovetailed. Full extension slides, but fairly cheap ones. Hardware has been replaced, machine screw not properly countersunk. Top drawer doesn't close properly, when filled automatically opens 1-2". Triangular support blocks (made from plywood) help keep the drawer bottom in place. This isn't normally visible, you have to really look underneath.
Not sure what material the drawer face is. Looks like maple, but what do I know about wood? Front is stained an ugly dark color, probably in a futile attempt to make it look like walnut.
Gaudy painted faux gold accents.
Various pieces of trim and molding around the cabinet. Miters are reasonably tight, trim is nailed every 12" or so, not the greatest job on filling the nail holes, but not bad.
Desk is the same ugly dark color, but has nicely tapered legs. Apron and trim are done very well, no gaps. Desk drawer is also BB, some gaps in the dovetails. Cheap slides, not full extension, sticking. Interior of the desk is 3/4" MDF and BB plywood.
I think I'll go watch TV now. I had some fun with that a the Grove Park Inn a few weeks ago. They have hundreds of Arts and Crafts antiques and reproductions that you can play with. I thought about taking pictures but was on baby duty most of the weekend while my wife was in CE courses.
If you are in Asheville, stop in and ask for the self-guided tour, its a lot of fun. http://www.groveparkinn.com/ If you want to stay there, be prepared to blow a lot of money.
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07-22-2008, 11:55 AM
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Name: Reggie City: Albemarle State: NC County: Stanly Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Bas, old habits do die hard. I was a power lineman in the 60's and still find myself looking up at the lines and how they are constructed.  Like you, I've spent many a night in hotels over the last 30+ years of travel, and seen everything from "elegant" to pure junk! Slept in a few beds that I wasn't sure would hold up til morning!!
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07-22-2008, 12:12 PM
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Name: Marco Principio City: Durham State: NC County: Durham Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 29 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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You guys don't know the half of it. I actually do this at people's houses too. It's especially hard when you see downright poor craftsmanship, but you have to bite your tongue. THEN you find out that so and so's grandfather made the piece, and since you've taken an interest in it, they talk to you ad nauseum about it. That's when you go into spin control
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07-22-2008, 01:28 PM
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Name: rita cunningham City: Apex State: NC County: Chatham Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I don't do that, but I am always surprised to see what is sold and made in the USA. I am also imbarassed to see such shoddy work put out. That is the main reason I have Dick make all my furniture, it may not be fancy but it sure is sturdy. Wheb Dick worked at a chair factory he would always turn chairs over to see if he had made the die that the chair was made from.
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07-22-2008, 01:31 PM
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Name: Dan Bowen City: Oxford State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 45 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I thought my daughter was the only one who refered to this site as "The wood nerd site".
I was at a graduation in NY and met a family friend who is a turner (didn't know that ) and his wife refers to the Central NY Woodturners site the same way ..... Small world / same intrests | |
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