In part 1, we layed out the design and cut the pieces for the basic boxes. In part 2, we build the boxes and shelves. In part 3, doors were assembled, accouterments built and the whole shebang was, uh, painted (spit). Here in the finale, all the doors will get attached, the glass inserted, and the gats introduced to their new forever home.
If you recall I hinted that thin doors (~1/2 inch) would lead to problems. Well we are at the point where those problems manifest. In traditional sort of kitchen cabinet doors, you need your doors to be 12-13 commie units (mm) thick to accommodate the cup. You can find some that will fit thin doors, but they seem hard to come by and are expensive. So I was left with butt hinges. The problems arise both with the doors – too thin for the provided screws – and attaching to the frame-less cabinet. But we endeavor to persevere and get on with with it. In the end, I think the butt hinge look is actually better for this piece than a more modern type hinge. Always look on the bright side of life. That’s as stoic as I get.
The butt hinges attach to the frame of the case; note the narrow frames members such that the hinge plate holes barely overlap with the frame – sort of requires that you be very careful drilling the pilot holes. You also have to attached the hinges to the doors. Once again, the thinness of the door itself is a problem. Had to be very careful with the pilot holes so as not to penetrate through the front to the door. Fortunately, I had a broken bit that when installed in the drill was the perfect depth. With some specially bought screws (that will have to be painted since they are gold and I ain’t Trump), measure, drill, and attach. Now for both the top and bottom doors, with everything aligned on the case, the doors wouldn’t close quite properly – Did I mention I should have used cherry or red oak, not warped poplar? So out comes the hand plane to custom fit and the gel stain (spit) to repaint the exposed wood.
Installing hinges on the top case; layout with story pole to ensure even spacing, close up looking down on the edge of the cabinet showing the minimal clearance for the screws, and the hinges installed.
Attaching hinges on bottom. Layout on the door, attach the hinge to the case, hand plane and repaint. You can see that the doors do not close cleanly; magnetic clasps will help with that. I hope.
Repeat on the top; layout positions on the door, support while screwing, hand plane and paint.
For the bottom, box, also need to attach the display case door. For that, I used a couple of piano hinges. For both top and bottom, needed to add handles and a magnetic clasp as well – again the door thickness bit me on the ass, as the screws for the handles were too long so I needed to hacksaw the screws short and use a metal hasp to smooth everything out so it would thread.
Handles attached to bottom doors; piano hinges on the display door; mounted on on the case; handle attached to door.
Inset the magnetic clasp in the bottom cabinet. With the magnets, the doors line up OK, still a bit off in the vertical direction. I actually changed the clasp to a different, better one after I finished this.
Attaching handles to the upper cabinet.
The only thing left really is to add the glass to the doors. For the glass, I got some 1/8″ glass cut by a local glass place – big box and Ace didn’t really have anything with the length I needed for the top. Of course, the door thinness means that the rabetts for the glass are pretty shallow; but since the glass is heavy, I wouldn’t want anything thicker than 1/8″ anyway. In any case, I inserted the glass and used some Lexel (flexible adhesive) in the gap along with some ‘clamps’ to hold the glass in place. I started with some very tall ones thinking they’d look decorative – but nah, they just looked ugly. So got some very low profile ‘picture frame’ type ‘clamps’ and used those. On the bottom, I also added some chains to help support the heavy door when the case is opened. For the top, needed some extra support for the glass install so the hinges wouldn’t get too much stress while the adhesive sets up.
Putting the glass in the bottom. Adhesive, the big honking hold-downs. Pretty much finished, note the new magnetic clasp. Replace those big ugly retainers for the glass with low profile ones.
Mounting the glass for the top case.
Weird. I think I’m… done?!??!
Well, just need to join the top and bottom (but we’re already prepared for that) and put it place. Actually, it’s heavy, and awkward, so I moved the top and bottom separately and assembled in place. And the last step was empty out the closet, move the guns from various surfaces and put it all neatly away! I think it turned out well, but I notice the little imperfections… maybe I’ll treat it as a template for a new project with real wood!
And it’s done. Everybody (and their ammunition) seems happy in their new home. Rearranging and storing everything gave me a good ammo inventory. I think I need to do some online shopping…
Great work.
How much for a wall mount sword case?
So, next step is to take the cabinet boating?
Excellent!
Congrats on finishing it!
Yeah, but then there’s one less cherry tree, producing wonderful, sweet (or tart) cherries.
Now everyone knows why I have less respect for George Washington than most.
I should also mention that you have, in fact, created some impressive furniture. Congrats, PM.
Technically you mean Parson Weems.
Beautiful! I love building things, but this is way beyond my limited capabilities. Very nice work.
I wouldn’t dare compare such accomplishments to my capabilities.
Hell, I failed in my attempt to make a box. Or a cutting board…
Wood is not my element.
‘Or a cutting board…’
That…. is impressive.
Me neither. The wood warps, or something goes wrong every time I do a larger project.
Looks great,
the screws for the handles were too long so I needed to hacksaw the screws short and use a metal hasp to smooth everything out so it would thread.
I’ve had luck shortening those with a set of linesman’s pliers, since you thread the screw in, cut it, then back it out it, re-threads the screw and there is usually no issue getting it started into the hardware.
Looks great, but I see some empty spaces in there. Fixing those should probably be your next project…
Thanks all – I’m going to be rather hit and miss this morning (or afternoon if you are in the wrong time zone), it’s a rather… hectic… day at work.
To Mr fourscore, if you pop in. I’m on Tundra’s “list”, but I’m planning on crashing honey harvest this year, table for two.
Table? I was told it was bring your own chair. I even bought a lawn chair to bring with me…
You will need that lawn chair.
Looking forward to meeting you in person.
👍
Cat’s in the Cradle.
We’re gonna have a good time.
PM, your project is over whelming. We’ve seen UCS’s work, tasted Kinnath’s fantastic mead, laughed at CPRM’s handiwork and others’ skills.
The Glibs are a gang of talented folks and I’m happy to be a misfit.
I missed all you others but it’s inclusive.
That looks lovely! Great work.
Awesome work Putrid! I remember you made a comment about building a gun case, geez like a year ago and it’s on my list of things to build. I am finishing up a project for a coworker that I have been working on since March (life kept getting in the way) then will do some shop improvements this fall and winter. Maybe next spring…
Excellent work, Mr. Meat!
It turned out really well – congrats!
That is beautiful! Thank you for documenting this so we could vicariously join you on the journey.
I’ve met a handful of men who’ve become woodworkers due to finding “new” furniture at places like “Ashley” and “HOM” to be total shit. So they say “Dang it, I could do better!” and then some of them find that it’s their calling and plunge headlong into carpentry, learning about woods, tools, techniques, finishes, etc. Those dudes ROCK.
Interestingly, I’ve never met a woman with that same mindset/experience about woodworking. I assume there are some woman skilled carpenters out there, but I am pretty sure it’s mainly dudes. My theory is that men have a unique capacity to become single-mindedly focused on a thing and pursue it to the exclusion of a lot of trivial shit. Maybe it’s the mildest expression of Aspergers. And I thank you for it.
May you someday obtain a Stanley 55. https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/stanley-no-55-combination-plane-100-near-mint-complete-in-original-box-sweetheart-78667
My wife dives into quilting, spinning, weaving, etc.
Same focus, different materials.
You make a good point.
When I am on a circuit building project (repairing something, converting an antique radio to a guitar amp, rewriting my husband’s guitars) I am completely oblivious to the passage of time and stop at nothing to obtain and maintain the proper equipment.
Same with when I do small sculpting projects and painting.
It is easier to observe such traits in others than in oneself.
I can’t speak to the gendered aspect, but I suspect it’s an adaptation related to the development of advanced toolmaking. once we got past the tech level were everyone could know everything, the ability to ‘deep dive’ into a specialization became an evolutionary advantage.
In junior high, when we split the year between Home Ec and Woodshop, I always enjoyed Woodshop more. I liked the sewing part of Home Ec well enough – though the projects tended to be boring stuff like aprons – but the cooking part kinda left me cold. 😕
You probably should have turned the stove on.
It was an antigriddle and they were making rolled ice.
We didn’t have home ec or woodshop. They’d gotten rid of all practical skills from the curriculum.
Woodworking is one of the skills I would love to try if I had access to a shop & classes. And welding. I’d like to try welding.
I love it, PM! Thanks so much for the series!
That is beautiful. Sometimes simple and timeless is the way to go. Thanks for the interesting series.
As is evidenced by simpler and time tested – Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
I like this study because it validates a position I already held.
Filed under “No Shit, Sherlock”
Physical buttons aren’t coming back though. Touchscreens are too cheap and they simplify the wiring harness.
Ain’t the future glorious?
I can see some “There aught to be a law” safety agitator getting a regulation in to require it. Never say never.
That would be better than all the stupid airbags. Touch screens don’t give immediate feedback, leaving the user to stab at it with there fingers and ultimately stop paying attention to the road.
“Ever used a touch screen that touched you back? You will. And the company that will bring it to you is not AT&T.”
I still respect them for publicly demonstrating this. Otherwise you get marketing telling you how customers love the dogshit they are forced to eat.
Similar to watches I won’t be surprised if some point a decade from now someone makes an analogue cockpit again. But it will be some specialty car.
Was reading the other day that “electronics” make up something like 40% of the cost of a new car today versus 10% some decades ago.
Glorious, indeed.
All on a relatively insecure network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
Reduces wiring complexity, you just need power, ground and data to every ridiculous electronic widget that distracts from safe operation.
Muscle memory is important in operating any equipment. Physical buttons are crucial to developing that memory.
Touchscreens are terrible for simple controls. They are wonderful for some applications like deep dives into documents fully of hyperlinks. But they are shit for basic operational interfaces.
^^^^This guys understands ergonomics.
There is an entire science devoted to designing cockpits – learned from a bunch of deaths.
Cars aren’t planes, but the demands are similar; having minimal “heads down” time is essential for safe driving.
It was always a knock on the Russian aircraft is that they didn’t give two shits for ergonomics or pilot’s workload and heads-down time.
It makes even a wonderfully capable airframe near useless.
I am not a pilot or a human factors expert. But I have had certain concepts beaten into my skull by pilots and human factors experts.
Generally speaking, you don’t replace physical controls with touch screens. You replace physical controls with automation. But automation has its own set of evils.
“Hey Siri, set the air conditioning to 69 degrees.”
“Setting air conditioning to 69 degrees Celsius.”
*Hot air blows at top speed out of vents
“SIRI! 69 degrees Fahrenheit! Fahrenheit!”
“I cannot hear you over the air conditioning. Turn it off to proceed.”
“AAAAHHH!”
My club thumbs miss the physical keypad on my old semi-smart phone, by necessity left behind when switching mobile carriers. 😢
I grieved when I had to give up my Blackberry that had buttons.
I loved my Blackberry.
When it’s cold, I wear driving gloves. That sucks for touchscreens even though I use driving gloves that have the capacitive touch thingy.
I read that Tesla is going to phase out the “stalks” on their steering wheels. That sucks big time. I’m glad to have “old” Teslas, which have stalks to control all sorts of functions.
I wonder if Tesla realizes that they are putting their cars out of reach of folks with disabilities? Artificial limbs are terrible at touchscreens, and people who are mute or have other speech impediments can’t use voice commands. One of the things I liked about Tesla at first was that full self driving would eventually give freedom to the blind to travel without public transportation. They could finally leave cities and thrive in small towns!!
I am a Tesla fan, as you guys know, but getting more “sleek” is not helping.
Tesla isn’t going for the practical market.
And at the moment, nobody else is either.
Or are Scottish
Ye’v git that richt pal
Obligatory: Scottish Elevator With Voice Recognition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUTfUmI8vs
They believe that self driving is happening in months so no issue.
Self-driving isn’t happening.
Plus Tesla people. Paging Q…
My wife’s girlfriend’s sister curbed my rims. 🥲
I’ll just skip over the part where your wife has a girlfriend, and ask:
Why the fuck do you allow randos to drive your $70K car?
Girlfriend in the non-sexual sense.
Second on the disability considerations. I use a hand control to drive, which means both my hands are occupied. So to do one of these tasks I’m taking my hand off the wheel for a time. Controls on the wheel are helpful, but with everything on a touchscreen I’d be in a situation where my eyes are off the road and I have no hands on the wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqw2AaVdmt4
One of the reasons we are going to hang onto one of the FJ Cruisers indefinitely. Not only is it devoid of touchscreens, driver “assist”, and annoying electronics, the controls all appear to have been designed to be operated by someone wearing mittens.
The biggest single safety hazard when driving is taking your eyes off the road. Touchscreens and fiddly electronics and controls make you take your eyes off the road.
I hate touchscreens in general – I can’t imagine fiddling with one while driving.
OMG that pic with the titanic-sized iPad taking up half the cockpit. That is so r-word.
That is so r-word.
riggers?
That’s some mighty fine police work, Lou.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11166011/Cops-REOPEN-case-woman-stabbed-20-times-ruled-suicide-killer.html
Somebody knew the killer and covered it up.
I cant even begin to consider incompetence in that one.
Based on that 911 call, the killer is most likely the fiance.
You start with the people closest to the corpse and work your way outward. most killers are found in the first few rings.
I have a friend who was a police detective. He told me it’s nothing like the CSI shows. Sure, there are some mysteries, but almost always it’s someone who knew the victim and as you said, within one of those first few rings.
So, the Strangers on a Train actually had a solid plan?
If the conspirators stuck to it.
This is why you can’t trust strangers anymore.
Everyone knows that PeeWee shot Tater, and no one really cares why.
Well of course. It’s no different with true crime shows. The mysteries are the ones that end up on the shows, the ones that solve themselves would just be boring.
Most of the cases on the true crime shows solve themselves, but the producers deliberately draw out the solving.
But the detectives do look like underwear models, right?
My friend was around 300# of not exactly muscle. So if he were an underwear model, it would be the 2022 kind.
Actually, I used to be a male model. I did all the “before” pics for diet pill ads.
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To continue the Viruses Don’t Exist weirdness
Is it wrong wish these people get a chance to experience leprosy?
Invite them to help treat patients with Hemmoragic fever, without PPE
After all, diseases are not contagious they say.
That’s just an excerpt of a much longer screed that’s on another level of bizarre. I almost think it’s an elaborate troll, but the last two years happened and now I believe people will believe anything.
Speaking as an actual biologist – that is, biologically speaking – these people are full of more shit than a septic tank.
Reminds me of some of the crazy stuff you’ll see in the comments for astronomy and physics articles.
Is their claim no viruses exist at all? That’s asking too much.
Right now I’m reading Peter Duesberg’s book Inventing the AIDS Virus. That’s way more subtle. The HIV virus obviously exists but it’s benign, a passenger virus. It doesn’t cause AIDS. The HIV-AIDS narrative violates Koch’s Postulates.
It runs the gamut from “viruses don’t actually cause disease, the reaction to them does” to “viruses are a lie cooked up by the Illuminati”
I was unaware that these people existed until recently, but they are remarkably fervent and enthusiastic in their gospel.
Can you elaborate on this?
I excerpted a few passages from the book.
I can understand why he might have questioned the HIV/AIDS connection. But his theory that AIDS is caused by drug use makes no sense to me, when it’s clearly a sexually transmitted disease.
I have not yet reached the part of the book where he presents evidence of the Drug-AIDS hypothesis.
Very nice!
As far as women making woodworking projects, there are more than a few who do. I still have a couple of tables that my grandmother built back in the fifties, but she was uncommon then. Now, as more and more women and girls are introduced to it, it is becoming as normal as quilting and sewing. It mainly seems that it wasn’t expected of women, and so many weren’t introduced to it.
Yeah, I used to work in the tool business and met quite a few women carpenters and woodworkers. A lot of finish carpenters, for some reason. The attention to detail, maybe?
Or lack of upper body strength for framing, drywalling, etc.
You obviously haven’t seen any Guatemalan women doing ceiling drywall work. They’re short but stout.
Correct. I have not seen Guatemalan women doing ceiling drywall work here in Iowa.
Yes, women tend to remember every little detail. Especially when I do something wrong. 😆
My girlfriend tends to say “are you even listening to me?”
Which is a strange way to start a conversation.
Will you be here all week?
Try your waitress.
Tip the veal.
I can see that. But probably not as well as they can.
“but I notice the little imperfections”
The downside of doing things yourself- you’ll never stop seeing that mistake you made, and no one else even sees it.
Forgot to add- thanks so much for sharing this, I think they came out looking great, seems like a tough project, lots of parts to fit in.
Half a century ago (and some change) Mama Tres grunted, pushed, and shot forth upon this mortal coil yours truly.
As the 1st that year was actually Labor Day, obvious irony aside, I was nearly born in Richmond, Indiana. But they made it back to Dayton just in time.
The thought of that still makes me shudder.
Happy birthday, Tres. May it be full of large women.
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday, homey! 😃🥳🎉🎂 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3kyn9Es4HoY
Happy birthday. Tres!
The world is better with you in it. Kinda like a chubby chick.
I spent any evening in the Richmond, IN Target once or twice.
Happy B-day, TC.
Apropos of slum’s comment, I offer this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccnviOZWNo
That’s just what I was thinking of 😀
May your birthday be glorious and your women Rubenesque
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday
NSFW
https://youtu.be/B7mBGel-490
Tres has birthdays?
They have yearly rings.
Congrats, Young man, your mother did a fine job. The rest is up to you