Sorry one pic got in that was almost a meg in size. This is a repost
resized.
U all have a good evnin'
Fran
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:52:47 -0700, ghost wrote:


Group,
This was my second project after retiring. The tall end cabinet boxes
had to be assembled and glued upright in the room that they were to be
installed because I wanted them to go up to the ceiling so the crown
molding would cover the gap. I did not want a 5 inch gap at the top or
split them up to a bottom and top cabinet. Using right triangle math
to determine the hypotenuse of the box (Z = the square root of A
squared + B squared). Darn I knew that that formula would come in
handy some day. If I built the boxes first and tipped them up, the gap
at the top would have been to wide, didn't want to use a filler board
either. Boy I sure can be picky, Huh? A pest too.
I used minwax waterbase conditioner, white wash sprayed on and hand
rubbed until I got the opaqueness that I wanted. Then I sprayed 3
coats of polyacrylic finish sanding between each coat.
Bending the wood for the side shelves was a learning experience, boy
howdy.
I used a 5 foot piece of 3inch black a ABS, cut the 8 foot section of
trim in half, put them inside of the ABS, put some boiling water
inside sealed the ends with end caps and let it sit in the sun for 3
hours or so. Even after that it was hard to bend. Wouldn't have been
able to do it with out splitting the wood if the pieces were shorter
that 4 foot long. The extra length gave me some time to slowly bend
from the ends. I clamped the heck out 'em and waited over night before
gluing. Took two days for the glue to set up because of the damp wood.
The shelves have a piece of crystal white marble inlaid for the top.
The marble was left over from the kitchen stonework I did a few years
back.
Would you all like to see a few pics of the stone work I did in my
kitchen?
U-all take care.
Fran