In an effort not to turn this board into a my personal image board, I'll be posting all the photos of a suite of matched furniture I built over the span of nine months last year in this thread.
I used a TS55 EQ, RO 125EQ, OF 1010 EQ, Trion jigsaw, Router table, Makita impact driver, Milwaukee drill, assorted hand tools, and who knows what else. I based all this furniture off plans from Wood Magazine for a Futon Sofa and Modular Cabinets, but I quickly went off the reservation. The sofa is closest to the original plan, the bookshelves less so. Everything else is anywhere from a major modification to totally unrelated to the original plans.
Materials used include 1-1/2" maple, 3/4" maple and walnut, 1/2" maple (drawer boxes), 3/4" and 1/4" maple veneer plywood, 1/2" Baltic birch (drawer box for tool cabinet) and 3/8" Baltic birch (drawer bottoms).
Finish for all the furniture is Minwax wipe on poly followed by the Beall Buff System.
One element I kept from the original plans is use of knockdown hardware. I used two types of Blum knockdown fittings, mostly of a cam and screw type. I took a photo of this in the bookshelf photos. Most of the furniture paces can be taken apart in less then ten minutes, with the exception of the end table. Not planning on taking that apart.
I still have to build and entertainment unit in the same vein, but I think that will wait quite a few more months. More time and money than I'd like to spend at the moment. I think it's worth noting that I would not have been able to build all this without the Festools. My workshop is my living room. Without the abilities and dust collection of these tools, there's no way I would be able to do it. Not without making the apartment uninhabitable at least.
Pedro
I used a TS55 EQ, RO 125EQ, OF 1010 EQ, Trion jigsaw, Router table, Makita impact driver, Milwaukee drill, assorted hand tools, and who knows what else. I based all this furniture off plans from Wood Magazine for a Futon Sofa and Modular Cabinets, but I quickly went off the reservation. The sofa is closest to the original plan, the bookshelves less so. Everything else is anywhere from a major modification to totally unrelated to the original plans.
Materials used include 1-1/2" maple, 3/4" maple and walnut, 1/2" maple (drawer boxes), 3/4" and 1/4" maple veneer plywood, 1/2" Baltic birch (drawer box for tool cabinet) and 3/8" Baltic birch (drawer bottoms).
Finish for all the furniture is Minwax wipe on poly followed by the Beall Buff System.
One element I kept from the original plans is use of knockdown hardware. I used two types of Blum knockdown fittings, mostly of a cam and screw type. I took a photo of this in the bookshelf photos. Most of the furniture paces can be taken apart in less then ten minutes, with the exception of the end table. Not planning on taking that apart.
I still have to build and entertainment unit in the same vein, but I think that will wait quite a few more months. More time and money than I'd like to spend at the moment. I think it's worth noting that I would not have been able to build all this without the Festools. My workshop is my living room. Without the abilities and dust collection of these tools, there's no way I would be able to do it. Not without making the apartment uninhabitable at least.
Pedro
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