OKAY, I've been inspired to post my latest project

[tigger]

After seeing Waynes oak building skills, I'm feeling a bit inadeqate , so here is my latest project. Hand painted MDF for Lime-washes beach tops. Not quite on the level of most of the contributors here, but now you all know how I make my living.

 

[peter halle]

Tigger,

I'd be proud to build a kitchen like that!  Great job!

Peter

 

[tigger]

Tigger,

I'd be proud to build a kitchen like that!  Great job!

Peter

Thanks Peter. I don't get a lot of opportunity to build in solid wood. When I do, I'm so excited I almost forget to send the clients a bill.  [eek]
I'll scratch around for an oak kitchen I did a year or so ago. Quite proud of that one. I get a few smaller solid wood project in between these kitchen jobs, which I normally tackle at night in my workshop at home. This way I can savour every moment of it. Nothing like going to bed with the smell of fresh wood around.

 

[AlexThePalex]

After seeing Waynes oak building skills, I'm feeling a bit inadeqate ...

Please don't, there's no reason.  [smile]

 

[Jonhilgen]

Tigger,

Great looking kitchen!  Curious about the wine cubby above the refrigerator, those things just kill me.  I just can't find a way to make them efficiently (or have them look decent once I'm done).  Your method(s)

Once again, great looking work!  Did you design it as well?

Jon

 

[fatroman]

If you build a wine cubby, please don't put it over the fridge.

All that heat that's generated there is really bad for the wine.

 

[waynelang2001]

After seeing Waynes oak building skills, I'm feeling a bit inadeqate , so here is my latest project. Hand painted MDF for Lime-washes beach tops. Not quite on the level of most of the contributors here, but now you all know how I make my living.

Leon that kitchen is awesome, i love the colour and layout. Ive seen alot of " cabinet makers " work here in JHB close and i tell you what, they would be lucky if i told them they had 5 percent of the skills im seeing in that kitchen build.

 

[tigger]

If you build a wine cubby, please don't put it over the fridge.

All that heat that's generated there is really bad for the wine.

Thanks fatroman, I'm aware of this. I collect wines myself.

Space was a problem and these clients entertain a lot. and it was a requirement in their brief. So the bottom and back of this particular wine rack is made of two sheets of 6mm mdf with a 4mm sheet of polystyrene with good 'ol aluminum foil inbetween each of those sheets all laminated together to form insulating panels. I did not want to lose the "look" of the wine rack and wanted to create as much space for bottles as possible. The wine rack also only extends back 320mm to create a flu behind it where any warm air is extracted by means of a small 220volt computer fan. I placed a thermometer inside the compartment closest to the fridge at the back and can report that their one a one degree increase in temp. once the fridge was switched on.
It's a lot of effort but there are always solutions to buck traditional layouts if you really have to.
It's one of my trade secrets, but I'm sure it will be safe if I post it here!  [wink]

 

[tigger]

Tigger,

Great looking kitchen!  Curious about the wine cubby above the refrigerator, those things just kill me.  I just can't find a way to make them efficiently (or have them look decent once I'm done).  Your method(s)

Once again, great looking work!  Did you design it as well?

Jon

Thanks Jonhilgen. Appreciate the feedback. Yes, it is my design. Clients generally give me a list of what they want and or need and then I design from there.
The rack is a challenge and I can't say they are my favorite thing to build.
There are a few ways you can build them but the key is always accuracy. I use my ts55 to cut out the opposing slots and then just bang 'em together. I'll make a sketchup drawing in the next few mins and post it in this thread.
One sec.....

 

[tigger]

Tigger,

Great looking kitchen!  Curious about the wine cubby above the refrigerator, those things just kill me.  I just can't find a way to make them efficiently (or have them look decent once I'm done).  Your method(s)

Once again, great looking work!  Did you design it as well?

Jon

Thanks Jonhilgen. Appreciate the feedback. Yes, it is my design. Clients generally give me a list of what they want and or need and then I design from there.
The rack is a challenge and I can't say they are my favorite thing to build.
There are a few ways you can build them but the key is always accuracy. I use my ts55 to cut out the opposing slots take a 16mm chisel and tap out the off-cutts, and then just bang 'em together. I'll make a sketchup drawing in the next few mins and post it in this thread.
One sec.....

I use the tradtional design but rely completely on accuracy and square cutting for the slots. You will notice that I make the cuts an extra 10mm deeper than half way. This allows less than perfect chisel work to hide in this little cavity. Place all your horizontal dividers upright on your MFT and in position as they would be in the completed wine rack and then knock in the verticals one at a time using a piece of scrap to protect where you hit it with a hammer. When you bang away you want to create a very slight see-saw motion with the vertical divider to coax it down. Knock too hard and it will get stuck. The srap also distributes the knock of the hammer to help the vertical slide into the horizontals evenly.
That should do the trick. I hope this helps.

P.S. I find that there is no "efficient way to fo this to give you a perfect end result. It just takes patience and precision to leave no cleaning up afterwards.

 

[tigger]

After seeing Waynes oak building skills, I'm feeling a bit inadeqate , so here is my latest project. Hand painted MDF for Lime-washes beach tops. Not quite on the level of most of the contributors here, but now you all know how I make my living.

Leon that kitchen is awesome, i love the colour and layout. Ive seen alot of " cabinet makers " work here in JHB close and i tell you what, they would be lucky if i told them they had 5 percent of the skills im seeing in that kitchen build.

Thanks Wayne & Alex, you guys are too kind  [smile]