Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Sellers Cabinet Finally Done!
About 5 or 6 months ago we picked up a beat down Sellers cabinet on the cheap. Well it was cheap for a reason. One drawer front was busted in half, a door was hanging by one hinge, it was about 13 different colors and was soaked in grease. This thing was well used and some things I just couldn't salvage. I replaced a few things because they were broke, and others because they were just soaked in grease.
Here's what it looked like before:
And after.... The white top on this is porcelain so it's not something I could just paint very easy. Yes, that green strip is ugly. I'll figure something out...
Another before picture:
The rest are pictures I took during the rehab. I estimate that I have about 40 hours in this project. Most of that time was spent stripping paint.
Here is the drawer front I had to replace.
And this drawer needed everything but the front. I salvaged the front and built a new drawer.
Primer
Part way stripped.
This took the most time. The roll up cabinet has about 15 separate wood pieces. I couldn't take this apart so I had to scrape in between all of them. This alone was probably 3 hours of work.
Done.
Small fraction of the stripped paint.
Start of paint.
Start of assembly.
The new hinges I bought had a different offset. See the gaps on the left side. Had to fill holes, re-sand, re-paint....
Getting there...
My spray booth took a beating with this project.
Here's what it looked like before:
And after.... The white top on this is porcelain so it's not something I could just paint very easy. Yes, that green strip is ugly. I'll figure something out...
Another before picture:
The rest are pictures I took during the rehab. I estimate that I have about 40 hours in this project. Most of that time was spent stripping paint.
Here is the drawer front I had to replace.
And this drawer needed everything but the front. I salvaged the front and built a new drawer.
Primer
Part way stripped.
This took the most time. The roll up cabinet has about 15 separate wood pieces. I couldn't take this apart so I had to scrape in between all of them. This alone was probably 3 hours of work.
Done.
Small fraction of the stripped paint.
Start of paint.
Start of assembly.
The new hinges I bought had a different offset. See the gaps on the left side. Had to fill holes, re-sand, re-paint....
Getting there...
My spray booth took a beating with this project.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Wine bottle balancers
The other week I was cleaning up the beat up, nail-filled ends of some reclaimed lumber I picked up on craigslist. I didn't want to trash even these small pieces so I decided to make a few wine bottle balancers that are very popular on Etsy.com, lazy woodworker sites (like mine), etc. I decided why not. I fired up the drill press and drilled a few holes.
Well, Miranda doesn't like them so they won't be holding any wine at my house. No biggy as they only took about 2 minutes to make. Anyone want one? Mom, will these sell at your craft sale?
