I re-assembled the radiator stand. Its simple yet elegant with its industrial kick *** looks.
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I re-assembled the radiator stand. Its simple yet elegant with its industrial kick *** looks.
I made another router template (the last one for this project!) and cut-out the holes in the bottom case's side panels for the radiator intakes.
Purty! +rep
I've been working on the case doors, which has been a time consuming task consisting of cutting the 6.2mm-thick oak veneer plywood down to a rough size and then thickening them by gluing strips of 1/2-inch thick birch veneer plywood.
The panels are trimmed to their final size (less 1.5-inches) and then 3/4-inch square solid oak strips are glued to the edges of the panels to hide the plywood veneers.
Any unevenness of the plywood trim was quickly dealt with on the jointer.
The doors also function as huge airducts so blocks were glued around the perimeter of the door to offset the door away from the frame of the case.
The doors are attached to the case via a dead-simple "post and hook" mechanism. The post consists of a #8 socket cap screw, 1/4x1/4-inch aluminum spacer fastened to the case via a threaded insert.
The hook is a slitted piece of .125-inch aluminum flat bar attached to the blocks on the door via more threaded inserts.
I like the door attachment system. Simple, rugged, and it doesn't look half bad either. ;)
I know I've said this before and I know it's the customer's choice, but every time I see this I can't help but think how beautiful it would look with a nice stain or a urethane sealer instead of the black paint. :(
In person, the black stain looks really good. The wood grain shows through perfectly. I'm thankful he went with the black, because its very easy to hide mistakes. If this case was made out of, say cherry, main-oh-man that would require a ton more time. Whew!Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
The black wood makes me think of pianos, but those are glossy. :)
With the fabrication of the lower case essentially complete, its on to finishing...sanding, staining and applying wipe-on polyurethane. With a large piece like this, its essential (for me anyway) to be able to apply finishes comfortably, which I can do sitting down by using a homemade turntable.
The turntable is just the undercarriage of an old office chair.
Hahaha, nice! Great use of a otherwise useless broken chair. :D
With the final finish applied to all surfaces the bottom case is now 99% done (its missing the bottom molding, which I won't apply 'til the very end).
Front:
Side:
Top:
Obligatory closeup:
Looks great!
Beautiful! I love how you can still see the wood grain.
I completed the fabrication of the top case's side doors and attached them using the same "post and hook" latching mechanism that I used on the bottom case.
O_O ..this thing is going to be ridiculously big isn't it.. :D
This week the window in the doors were routed out. Then the doors were scraped, sanded, stained and finished with a satin wipe-on polyurethane finish. Here's what a door looks like after three coats of polyurethane:
Mmm, shiny. :D
In between staining and finishing the parts to the top case, I worked on fabricating the front doors using the same build techniques as all of the other doors in this project. The final width an height of the doors was gradually achieved by numerous trips to and from the jointer.
Great build, have not been here for some time and just saw this amazing build.
Keep it up =)
Holycrapthatisalotofclamps! :D
Beautiful craftsmanship.
Work on the case continues...
Attached the (removable) molding to the bottom of the bottom case.
The last bit of fabrication is on the top of the case, made from 3/4-inch oak veneer plywood and solid oak edging. Edging was glued and scraped flush to the surface of the plywood.
The top is removable. To help with re-aligning the heavy top to the carcass some guide blocks were glued to the underside of the top...
...and four threaded inserts were installed.
In the final assembly phase...
Holy balls that thing is huge! I like it. :D
Final pics!
Holy hugeness!!!! But it looks great. :up:
Allow me to reiterate:
I gotta say, the black stain really has grown on me. The finished product is beautiful. :D +repQuote:
Originally Posted by x88x
Do we get to see it filled up?
I'll ask the client when I deliver it to him tomorrow. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
wow! nice work! +rep
we NEED pics of it filled with yummy hardware. tell your client he can't get it unless we all get pics! :D
I know he's running at least three loops through 140x4 radiators, mounted on some custom brackets I built for 'em:Quote:
Originally Posted by SXRguyinMA
holy hell i didnt realise it was that huge! very nice
Final product looks phenomenal! Great job.
Best big case I've seen & it's so perfectly built & nicely finished Spotswood :bowdown:, the picture with you next to it is golden :):up: & I hope your client is paying you well mate ;), already left a comment on bit-tech but doing so here too +rep.
Thank you for the comments everyone. Time to move on to some new projects:
