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Are the increasing number of projects being posted connected to everyone’s workshops getting a little warmer and us woodworkers emerging from hibernation? 
It is a veritable hive of industry on here at the moment. Some nicely ambitious work going on, Pistonheads Woodwork goes from strength to strength. 
I've been busy too. I flew down from Yorkshire to Guernsey to measure a kitchen last September and have been sawing and hammering ever since.
Transport arrives tomorrow morning and then I drive down to Portsmouth with the painting department for the ferry on Thursday morning.
Important that I don't forget anything.
It's a painted kitchen with polished walnut interiors which makes a nice change... and then a late addition, the walnut kitchen table I started a couple of pages ago.
TBH I generally lose a fair bit of sleep around this stage in the process and the Channel Island factor isn't easing the situation at all. Roll on Saturday morning when I can take stock and crack on.
I've been busy too. I flew down from Yorkshire to Guernsey to measure a kitchen last September and have been sawing and hammering ever since.
Transport arrives tomorrow morning and then I drive down to Portsmouth with the painting department for the ferry on Thursday morning.
Important that I don't forget anything.
It's a painted kitchen with polished walnut interiors which makes a nice change... and then a late addition, the walnut kitchen table I started a couple of pages ago.
TBH I generally lose a fair bit of sleep around this stage in the process and the Channel Island factor isn't easing the situation at all. Roll on Saturday morning when I can take stock and crack on.
loughran said:
It is a veritable hive of industry on here at the moment. Some nicely ambitious work going on, Pistonheads Woodwork goes from strength to strength.
I've been busy too. I flew down from Yorkshire to Guernsey to measure a kitchen last September and have been sawing and hammering ever since.
Transport arrives tomorrow morning and then I drive down to Portsmouth with the painting department for the ferry on Thursday morning.
Important that I don't forget anything.
It's a painted kitchen with polished walnut interiors which makes a nice change... and then a late addition, the walnut kitchen table I started a couple of pages ago.
TBH I generally lose a fair bit of sleep around this stage in the process and the Channel Island factor isn't easing the situation at all. Roll on Saturday morning when I can take stock and crack on.
Wow. How lovely is that grain Some pictures of the walnut interiors too, please. Best wishes for the transportation… I've been busy too. I flew down from Yorkshire to Guernsey to measure a kitchen last September and have been sawing and hammering ever since.
Transport arrives tomorrow morning and then I drive down to Portsmouth with the painting department for the ferry on Thursday morning.
Important that I don't forget anything.
It's a painted kitchen with polished walnut interiors which makes a nice change... and then a late addition, the walnut kitchen table I started a couple of pages ago.
TBH I generally lose a fair bit of sleep around this stage in the process and the Channel Island factor isn't easing the situation at all. Roll on Saturday morning when I can take stock and crack on.
That should be one nice looking kitchen L, and as said above the walnut looks absolutely lovely.
Sadly, not much industry here, hived or otherwise. I've been thinking of making a start on a kids hobby table, not exactly complicated, with a reversible top (lego base one side) and a storage area under the top. Lots of sketches so far, but not got there yet, - I'll probably do two once I get started, one in ash and one in beech.
Maybe one of those teeny weeny fridges for the beer....
Sadly, not much industry here, hived or otherwise. I've been thinking of making a start on a kids hobby table, not exactly complicated, with a reversible top (lego base one side) and a storage area under the top. Lots of sketches so far, but not got there yet, - I'll probably do two once I get started, one in ash and one in beech.
Maybe one of those teeny weeny fridges for the beer....
The carcasses are walnut veneered MDF which is lovely stuff but when you order 20 or 30 sheets sometimes one or two are a bit special. This has become the back of a wall cabinet.
The cabinets are sprayed with Morrell's 440 acid cat. The table pedestal is finished in Osmo and the top in Rustin's Plastic coating, cured for a couple of weeks then burnished.
A 30 mile radius is my comfort zone for installations like this but then these customers are lovely and they sort of wore me down over a couple of years. My only real reservation it that the two large larder cupboard each have 2 large pocket doors that slide in and away on complicated Swiss scissor actions. They are lovely mechanisms but I'm going to be a long way away when the cat (or a kid) gets stuck in one. I can see me having to fly down three times a year just to adjust things.
Onward and upward !
The cabinets are sprayed with Morrell's 440 acid cat. The table pedestal is finished in Osmo and the top in Rustin's Plastic coating, cured for a couple of weeks then burnished.
A 30 mile radius is my comfort zone for installations like this but then these customers are lovely and they sort of wore me down over a couple of years. My only real reservation it that the two large larder cupboard each have 2 large pocket doors that slide in and away on complicated Swiss scissor actions. They are lovely mechanisms but I'm going to be a long way away when the cat (or a kid) gets stuck in one. I can see me having to fly down three times a year just to adjust things.
Onward and upward !
Edited by loughran on Tuesday 9th April 09:52
loughran said:
The carcasses are walnut veneered MDF which is lovely stuff but when you order 20 or 30 sheets sometimes one or two are a bit special. This has become the back of a wall cabinet.
The cabinets are sprayed with Morrell's 440 acid cat. The table pedestal is finished in Osmo and the top in Rustin's Plastic coating, cured for a couple of weeks then burnished.
A 30 mile radius is my comfort zone for installations like this but then these customers are lovely and they sort of wore me down over a couple of years. My only real reservation it that the two large larder cupboard each have 2 large pocket doors that slide in and away on complicated Swiss scissor actions. They are lovely mechanisms but I'm going to be a long way away when the cat (or a kid) gets stuck in one. I can see me having to fly down three times a year just to adjust things.
Onward and upward !
Hello from Guernsey! At least the weather is improving so you've a decent chance of making it over - last few days have been chaos getting on/off islandThe cabinets are sprayed with Morrell's 440 acid cat. The table pedestal is finished in Osmo and the top in Rustin's Plastic coating, cured for a couple of weeks then burnished.
A 30 mile radius is my comfort zone for installations like this but then these customers are lovely and they sort of wore me down over a couple of years. My only real reservation it that the two large larder cupboard each have 2 large pocket doors that slide in and away on complicated Swiss scissor actions. They are lovely mechanisms but I'm going to be a long way away when the cat (or a kid) gets stuck in one. I can see me having to fly down three times a year just to adjust things.
Onward and upward !
Edited by loughran on Tuesday 9th April 09:52
If you forget anything do give a shout, though hopefully it's nothing more sophisticated than a screwdriver or I might not be able to help
I wish our kitchen fitter was more pro-active - we had ours installed a year ago and still chasing to have doors adjusted... and they are on island!!
loughran said:
The carcasses are walnut veneered MDF which is lovely stuff but when you order 20 or 30 sheets sometimes one or two are a bit special. This has become the back of a wall cabinet.
I bought a couple of sheets of walnut veneered MDF (how much!?!?!) for my camper van project recently, they're still in the protective packaging but I'm itching to go and see if I have something as spectacular as that now.....I suspect I'm within the '30 mile loughran kitchen radius' but outside the 'wealth radius' required to commission a kitchen. Your work always looks so lovely, please keep showing us; it's an inspiration.
Thanks for the greetings from Guernsey, we’ve arrived at last and in the process found that we’re not natural seafarers. Despite the weather being pretty good the Painting Department has gone back to bed looking distinctly peaky. We were only on the ferry for 3 hours.
All the furniture is here and seemingly undamaged despite taking the 12 hour ferry which I now know would have probably killed me.
The room seems bigger that it did last September which is a good thing but not ready for me until Tuesday which isn’t.
So Mr Jamgy, if you need your kitchen doors adjusting, drop me a line.
EmBe if you need off-cuts for your project and you’re passing, drop into the workshop anytime. Just not now, I’m not there.
All the furniture is here and seemingly undamaged despite taking the 12 hour ferry which I now know would have probably killed me.
The room seems bigger that it did last September which is a good thing but not ready for me until Tuesday which isn’t.
So Mr Jamgy, if you need your kitchen doors adjusting, drop me a line.
EmBe if you need off-cuts for your project and you’re passing, drop into the workshop anytime. Just not now, I’m not there.
A personal one from me.
Met up with my Aunt late last year and she gave me an envelope containing something she'd kept hold of for almost 60 years. I decided to frame it and give it somewhere to be displayed rather than in an envelope in a drawer or up in the loft.
Using some of the oak flooring I had, it was a simple frame with a piece of perspex cut into the frame for the front and to keep the dust down.
I had some old victorian panelling which I recovered, thought these would make an ideal back once glued together.
The back put together and sanded (the tongue groove shows on the back).
But the front/inside was smooth; once sanded.
A few little nubbins of oak to use as supports on the inside results in the following which has now been finished with danish oil.
If you're wondering; the wee chap in the picture is me just under 2 years of age, presenting my Aunt and Uncle with a horseshoe for good luck. My Uncle Tommy had to bribe me to present it with a packet of Fruit Pastilles (which you can see in his hand). My Aunt gave me a new pack along with the envelope.
Simple but much better than hidden away.
Met up with my Aunt late last year and she gave me an envelope containing something she'd kept hold of for almost 60 years. I decided to frame it and give it somewhere to be displayed rather than in an envelope in a drawer or up in the loft.
Using some of the oak flooring I had, it was a simple frame with a piece of perspex cut into the frame for the front and to keep the dust down.
I had some old victorian panelling which I recovered, thought these would make an ideal back once glued together.
The back put together and sanded (the tongue groove shows on the back).
But the front/inside was smooth; once sanded.
A few little nubbins of oak to use as supports on the inside results in the following which has now been finished with danish oil.
If you're wondering; the wee chap in the picture is me just under 2 years of age, presenting my Aunt and Uncle with a horseshoe for good luck. My Uncle Tommy had to bribe me to present it with a packet of Fruit Pastilles (which you can see in his hand). My Aunt gave me a new pack along with the envelope.
Simple but much better than hidden away.
I hesitate to mention MDF on the same page as Loughran’s walnut marvel, but it’s a broad church: I recall some discussion of MDF good, bad and ugly when I read the thread from start to finish, but I can’t recall if Hidrofugo MDF got a mention. I came across it a few weeks ago, and bought some 18mm at reasonable cost from BGN Boards in West Bromwich - some suppliers are asking eye-watering prices. I’m all too familiar with the furring up of cut surfaces on ordinary MDF when painted, but this stuff is remarkable. It cut pretty cleanly with the plunge saw, but a light sand with 120 grit and a coat of Zinsser primer, and there is scarcely a difference between face and edge. The light “raised grain” on the edge flats back easily, and subsequent coats don’t show a difference between face and edge. Worth the extra in my opinion.
Hidro is an excellent product. Very dense and easy to get a good finish, no fluffing. I use it on my cnc to make mock 5 part shaker doors and it comes out of my paint shop with a perfect finish, it also stays perfectly flat even after removing lots of material from one side. Only slight negative is the weight. 
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