Posts made by Gidon Yuval

And you use this kind of glue in furniture?!?

@alan wood said:

I wish I could make that in 4hours. Must have some good machines.
Alan

Actually, Allan, the machines in that work-shop are pretty basic. What made it possible to complete the crib in so little time is the fact that I'm basicaly lazy, so I designed it in such a way that I'd have to do as little work as possible.

There are only two thicknesses: 2cm and 3cm.
There are only two widths so the rip cutting was a snap.
The legs and the two pieces that connect them are all the same width and thickness.
The joint connecting the upright to the base in the legs is a mortise and tennon joint where I'd drilled the mortise into both the upright and the base (one machine, one setting) and the tennon is another piece that connects the two, so I don't have to go through the whole procedure of fabricating a tennon. I make one strip of wood for the tennon, cut a notch down the whole length of it and simply cut into pieces of the required length. The notch is just to allow air and glue to escape when gluing up and clamping. A couple of swipes with a router round off the edges of the tennon strip.

The rest of the 'joinery' is the wooden dowels for the 'cage' (for want of a better word) and Directa screws.
The swinging action was also a bit of a cheat. I used a circle saw on the ends of the uprights and glued the round 'waste' onto the cage uprights. A perfect fit!
OK, so we've got 15 minutes of thickness planing, around an hour for all the sawing, another hour or so for gluing up, and while the glue is setting on the uprights I drill the dowel holes, hold all the dowels together with lots of masking tape and cut them all to length in two cuts, drill the holes for the Directa screws and thats it. Spray with a quick drying waterbased varnish and I'm back home for lunch.

Like I said, a lazy mans design

Having learned the trade in Israel I'm unfamiliar with English terminology. Could you tell me what "low tack glue" is?

My wife wouldn't let me build a crib for our youngest before he was born. The thinking was that if, G-d forbid, something should happen, we wouldn't have the crib around to remind us. It's not exactly superstition, it's more like emotional insurance.
Anyway, once he was born I had something like 4 hours to build him a crib for his first 3-4 months when he'd be with us at night. I built the crib at a friends workshop from some Beech he had left over from some previous work he'd done for me. The finnish is a water-based non-toxic varnish. The whole thing knocks down to a nice flat pack. The little one is ten years old now. Every relative and friend who has had a baby since has used the crib and if I remember correctly the number stands at 6. I'm not much of a photographer but I thought I'd post this anyway.

Thanks

Is Chris Schwarz's book available on the net?

Damn!
Kenny, you beat me to it

Joe, there are quite a few nice ideas in Fine Woodworking Magazine.
Have you seen them?

You mean this sort of thing?

Solo, that's realy neat.
One questin though: could you explain the bit about texturing using 2 different axis?
How do you use that? Is there a way to both instances of the texture simultaniously or do you texture seperate hemispheres with the appropriate texture?

Promise not to laugh?
I can't figure out how you draw a spiral like that to begin with.

Hey! You promised not to laugh

@dave r said:

After I get the cedar chest finished for his mother, we'll have to get the moulds out for the boat.

Moulds?

The way I see it is that more and more our chidren experience the world virtualy. They don't learn how to use tools and therefore are denied the development of basic hand-eye co-ordination. Just learning how to hammer a nail developes that co-ordination and helps the kids develope a sense of movement-to-power ratios. The 'feel' of how hard to hit the nail. The 'feel' of using tools as an extension of their limbs. The 'feel' of where to grip the handle, how to use the wrist, etc.
If we continue to let our children experience the world from TV and computer screens we will be doing them a great disservice.

BTW, Solo I like your idea of a spice rack.
How about this one?

At my youngest son's school, Fridays first lesson is dedicated to "Special Interests" where the kids can choose to participate in a variety of activities like Origami or bird watching etc.
The special interest groups are led by contributing parents and I lead the woodworking group.
We don't have a workshop for this and that we meet and work with hand tools using the playground benches as work-tables. Still, the kids have a lot of fun and are extremely proud of their completed projects.
So far they have built a little bird house and a simple stool and we are now working on a carrier box.

I would love to hear your ideas for projects.

These are the projects we've done:

The children are between 9 and 12 years old.

Dave, any chance of you posting the skippy?

Here's a quick tut.
Hope it helps.

Untitled.skp

Is this what you're looking for?
(not in terms of dimmensions, just in terms of shape)

Rounded wedge.skp

Jerry hi,
What do you think of this shop-built workbench that appeared in Fine Woodworking Magazine?

New-Fangled Workbench.pdf

Thanks for the responses and ideas.
In the end the client opted for this:

I tried to sell him on Ross's idea but he and the architect were adamant.
It seems that the purpose of these bottles is more visual than anything else. A kind of 3-D wall paper, if you will.

Beautiful work!
Great site!

@schreiberbike said:

What kind of hardware on the drawers?

I use BLUM almost exclusively.
I don't know if there is any American company that makes hardware like hinges and runners etc.
I haven't seen any in Israel. Almost all the hardware here is European, mainly from Austria, Germany and Italy.
I'm not sure that American hardware would be siutable in Israel as we use the metric system. I find it very frustrating to read articles in Fine Woodworking Magazine where all the dimmensions are in feet and inches.

Most glues and resins in Israel are from Germany while most of the varnishes are from Italy.

BTW, the unit in the parents bathroom is almost identical except that it is positioned between 2 walls and has open shelves on the left. I changed the construction accordinly. The units are designed so that the finnished product looks "crafted" even though the whole thing is put together with no joinery other than Lamello bisquits and screws and can be built by even supervised semi-skilled workers.

Parents bathroom unit.skp