Blue Pine Garage Cabinets: Build

[mike_aa]

[member=28483]iamnothim[/member]
Luke, That is outrageously cool!  Congratulations on finishing!  Nice to hear from you.

Do the eyes of the burlmen follow you around the shop? LOL

Mike A.

 

[badtastex]

Havent got around to see your thread until now, your workspace looks absolutely beautiful. I really like the grain patterns of that wood.

Nice work!

 

[Holmz]

whoa... is the blue pine? necer heard of it, but it is stunning.

 

[peter halle]

whoa... is the blue pine? necer heard of it, but it is stunning.

[member=40772]Holmz[/member]

Here are a couple of links you might find interesting:

http://www.core77.com/posts/23680/a-raw-materials-nightmare-the-blue-pine-disaster-part-1-23680

http://www.core77.com/posts/23682/the-blue-pine-disaster-part-2-what-is-bkp-beetle-kill-pine-good-for-23682

Peter

 

[Holmz]

Thanks [member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]

 

[nako]

Hey iamnothim, great projects and outstanding documentation.  That took real courage to challenge your limits on those builds while letting us all look over your shoulder so to speak. Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[iamnothim]

Guys!  Thanks for the kind words.

[member=1674]Peter Halle[/member] What a great article!  Fun to see all the BP projects.
It's a very easy and forgiving species to work with.  The beauty is it has more defects than my workmanship so very little stands out.  It's the Forrest Gump species.  When you go to the supplier you never know what it's going to look like so you go with whatever they have.  Mostly dark, mostly clear, few holes, chewed up, you can't be anal retentive or you'll be there for hours and hours selecting stock.

Another real plus is $1.50 / BF

All-the-best,

Luke

 

[iamnothim]

Luke
The cabinets look great!  Good to see your back here as well!

I've been in DIY audio land for quite some time.

I got bit by the vinyl bug real bad, so I made a phono preamp, phono preamp power supply, and differential input / output boards.  Then I bought a turntable.  Sounds sweet!  I'm stoked.  Good thing I have all the Festool I need because I'll be replacing all the albums I gave away during the CD craze.
Only thing left is to get those boards into that amp. 

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[Carl Prentiss]

Glad your back posting Luke. Hope all is well.
-Charlie

 

[Tayler_mann]

Luke
The cabinets look great!  Good to see your back here as well!

I've been in DIY audio land for quite some time.

I got bit by the vinyl bug real bad, so I made a phono preamp, phono preamp power supply, and differential input / output boards.  Then I bought a turntable.  Sounds sweet!  I'm stoked.  Good thing I have all the Festool I need because I'll be replacing all the albums I gave away during the CD craze.
Only thing left is to get those boards into that amp. 

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The vinyl bug is a good bug to have. I caught it when I was about 18 (9years ago) and my dad showed my how much better steely dan sounded on vinyl than CD.

Is that a project turntable I spy?

 

[iamnothim]

Is that a project turntable I spy?

It's a Rega RP3

 

[Tayler_mann]

Nice it looks really close to my project 1xpressions. I used to have about 5-10 vinyl show up at my house a week off a site calle popmarket. Than I started skydiving and than I started my own woodworking company and bought Festool and I am on the road to building a shop and buying a full shop of Felders and Hammer machinery. So I'll be able to buy vinyl in about 10 years again. [big grin]

 

[tiralie]

It's a Rega RP3

Rega makes some nice stuff.
Tim

 

[iamnothim]

I decided to post some progress photos because I am about to mitre the zebra wood sides.  Mitre.... me....  think strong probability of going all wrong.  I'll use the TS55 REQ because 45's go deep into the table top......  Good news.  The UPS man is bringing new tops today. [smile]

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[Tayler_mann]

You'll have no problems with a miter. I might be thinking wrong on this but don't you only have about a 6" miter to make on each side? If that's the case I would use the Kapex or any properly tuned miter saw. The track saw does work really well though I did a 450 mm miter for a case I made of hardwood recently and it worked splendidly. I'm just not sites out sma cuts. Do a lot of samples.

Also, if that is for your turntable and it gets mounted to the wall you need to be thinking of isolation from vibrations. Mounting to the wall works great usually but some type of rubber gasket along the mounting brackets is a must. My stereo tends to get turned to 11 if you know what I mean. I'm planning on building a table for my turntable  soon and it is going to be made of a wood box filled with sand, a 2" thick granite top with a rubber gasket and isolation feet down to the floor filled with again sand. It should weigh about 300 lbs. I have a resonance problem in my house and a hell of a large M&K clam shell woofer to add to the situation. Deep fast bass and my table tends to get some vibrations after a minute or so of some Charlie Parker.

 

[iamnothim]

You'll have no problems with a miter. I might be thinking wrong on this but don't you only have about a 6" miter to make on each side? If that's the case I would use the Kapex or any properly tuned miter saw. The track saw does work really well though I did a 450 mm miter for a case I made of hardwood recently and it worked splendidly. I'm just not sites out sma cuts. Do a lot of samples.

Also, if that is for your turntable and it gets mounted to the wall you need to be thinking of isolation from vibrations. Mounting to the wall works great usually but some type of rubber gasket along the mounting brackets is a must. My stereo tends to get turned to 11 if you know what I mean. I'm planning on building a table for my turntable  soon and it is going to be made of a wood box filled with sand, a 2" thick granite top with a rubber gasket and isolation feet down to the floor filled with again sand. It should weigh about 300 lbs. I have a resonance problem in my house and a heck of a large M&K clam shell woofer to add to the situation. Deep fast bass and my table tends to get some vibrations after a minute or so of some Charlie Parker.

Typical.
I posted to the wrong thread.

I will post in the correct area.  Sorry for the confusion.
Luke

 

[Holmz]

You'll have no problems with a miter. I might be thinking wrong on this but don't you only have about a 6" miter to make on each side? If that's the case I would use the Kapex or any properly tuned miter saw. The track saw does work really well though I did a 450 mm miter for a case I made of hardwood recently and it worked splendidly. I'm just not sites out sma cuts. Do a lot of samples.

Also, if that is for your turntable and it gets mounted to the wall you need to be thinking of isolation from vibrations. Mounting to the wall works great usually but some type of rubber gasket along the mounting brackets is a must. My stereo tends to get turned to 11 if you know what I mean. I'm planning on building a table for my turntable  soon and it is going to be made of a wood box filled with sand, a 2" thick granite top with a rubber gasket and isolation feet down to the floor filled with again sand. It should weigh about 300 lbs. I have a resonance problem in my house and a heck of a large M&K clam shell woofer to add to the situation. Deep fast bass and my table tends to get some vibrations after a minute or so of some Charlie Parker.

Typical.
I posted to the wrong thread.

I will post in the correct area.  Sorry for the confusion.
Luke

I was thinking yesterday that the blue pine looked like zebra wood.... [wink]