Little bookcase and a window seat

[MarkR]

Nearly finished making these, well the book shelves are done just need hard waxing. Window seat needs a bit more work like a couple of internal oak veneered panels to hide any side fixings.

Cornice/crown looks huge but its going 8' up so needs to be fairly big.

Corner detail on bottom shelf.

The window seat needs to be scribed/spilled into the window reveals.

Corner detail, and fielded panel.

Thanks for looking.

 

[GPowers]

Nice raised panels, project looks great over all.

 

[fritter63]

I can't get past the uber cool rustic brick walls. People on this side of the pond pay big bucks to get that look.....

 

[MarkR]

Thanks guys.

I can't get past the uber cool rustic brick walls. People on this side of the pond pay big bucks to get that look.....

Should of seen it before..and the outside is much nicer.

Machine room..

cabinet shop.

Its old circa 1650ish, thanks for your interest.

 

[woodguy7]

You do like that Ash Mark eh  [big grin]  Nice workshop you have there.  Is it on your own property or do you rent it.  Have you any form of heating, i have a wood burner in mine, works a treat.

 

[richard.selwyn]

You do like that Ash Mark eh  [big grin]  Nice workshop you have there.  Is it on your own property or do you rent it.  Have you any form of heating, i have a wood burner in mine, works a treat.

What sort of wood burner?
I was interested in one that would burn sawdust ( I think i've got 30 sacks now)
Richard

 

[pugilato]

that is the coolest workshop ever...

 

[MarkR]

You do like that Ash Mark eh  [big grin]  Nice workshop you have there.  Is it on your own property or do you rent it.  Have you any form of heating, i have a wood burner in mine, works a treat.

Their going in the same room as the ash wardrobes I posted on here a few weeks ago, there's a kneehole desk to do next week...in ash for the same room. As for the workshop, its on our farm. Heating at the moment is..... put a coat on. But I do have a workshop burner that burns timber and chippings/sawdust, just haven't had a chance to fit it yet. Need to get some insulation fitted this year if I don't get the burner in, I was using a simple fan heater that kept the shop at a balmy 10°c , even though it was -10°c outside. Still in the summer its keeps quite cool.

 

[woodguy7]

Richard, this is the one i use.

http://www.thehotspot.co.uk/Products/Relax_workshop_Heaters/Relax_Stoves.asp

 

[tiralie]

Corner detail on bottom shelf.

Mark:
Any chance you can detail (describe or) this corner joint. I can't figure out what you did there.
BTW, thanks for the pictures of the shop, very nice.
Tim

 

[kfitzsimons]

Very cool shop. The exterior is so interesting. We don't have much of that kind of detail in the buildings here. Beautiful. Thanks for posting. Anyone else have a really cool shop? Maybe start a new topic.

 

[jonny round boy]

You do like that Ash Mark eh  [big grin]  Nice workshop you have there.  Is it on your own property or do you rent it.  Have you any form of heating, i have a wood burner in mine, works a treat.

What sort of wood burner?
I was interested in one that would burn sawdust ( I think i've got 30 sacks now)
Richard

Richard,

I didn't want to take this thread off topic, so please see my new thread HERE.

 

[honeydoman]

Mark. Nice detail on the front. Looks good. Thanks for sharing

 

[MarkR]

Corner detail on bottom shelf.

Mark:
Any chance you can detail (describe or) this corner joint. I can't figure out what you did there.
BTW, thanks for the pictures of the shop, very nice.
Tim

Sure, I just stopped the face frame 38mm on the side and bottom. Then cut a wider piece, marked it with a pencil, and planed it in by hand. Its fixed in with a domino and PU'ed in.

 

[tiralie]

Sure, I just stopped the face frame 38mm on the side and bottom. Then cut a wider piece, marked it with a pencil, and planed it in by hand. Its fixed in with a domino and PU'ed in.

Cool! Thanks Mark.
Tim

 

[woodguy7]

Mark, what spindle tooling did you use for the cornice ?  What do you think of the auto feed for the spindle.  I don't have one on mine but friends of mine say they are difficult to set up.

Cheers Mark.

 

[Alan m]

auto feeds arnt  that dificult to set up.
just shing it in over the piece( against the fence) drop it down so the rollers are touching firmly but not wedged against it.
center the middle wheel to the center of the cutter so that the piece is caught before , during and after the cut.
point the head of the auto feed slightly towards the fence to push the piece towards the fence.

 

[MarkR]

I used this block with a large ogee with small cove cutters. I would go as far to say that a power feed is an essential piece of kit, and wouldn't be without it. They are a bit difficult the first time you set them up, if you haven't done one before. But they save fatigue when doing a long run, and make using a potentially dangerous machine much safer imho.

Back on the subject of the little bookcase, Its all polished now but I'm looking at the cornice again tomorrow. I think I'm going to set it on the wall at the height its going to be fitted at, and see if I can live with it. I'm almost certain I can't but thought I would see. I have a feeling its oversized and will probably change it, but setting it up on the wall might change that opinion.

edited cos I couldn't get a link to work [doh]