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The Complete Noob's First Project Thread - (No Theme/Name yet...)
walterg74:
Not much progress today being a weekday and all, but still I did manage to get to the store to buy the needed 1"x1", which I cut up for the moldings that hold the monitor panel, and those have been installed ;)
I also bought a couple of those spade round drill bits for cutting holes, and they worked out pretty good, like Koenigs said, wokred better for me than the cup saw (although in all fairness I don't really know if the ones I had were fastened 100% correctly to begin with...
One thing I did see, as I was holding together some panels to see what the thing would look like, is that the measurements are not all that correct... :-\
Thing is I decided to leave 2mm off the back just o have a little border I liked, and also, my curve at the front was a little "curvier" and so instead of 482 where the bottom starts curving up, I actually have about 469-470. But besides that, I don't know exactly how I should the edges of the bottom and front panels, since the step-by step does not show it :(
It would seem he mounts the front panel on top of the bottom panel, but if I do that, there will be an angle between them, unless I cut the bottom panel at the same angle as the front panel goes? would that be enough? For it's top part, if will be flush and on the same plane with the moldings, and so the control panel should fit in nicely (and if I add some routed rounding to the edge, it would make it look even nicer).
Is that the way it should be done, or is there a better way to fit these pieces together? ???
lcmgadgets:
Congrats on an amazing start! & thanks for the extra detail you're putting into your posts. I'll bet this project will become a must-read for all noobs like me. Keep up the great work! :applaud:
walterg74:
--- Quote from: lcmgadgets on May 29, 2012, 08:33:35 pm ---Congrats on an amazing start! & thanks for the extra detail you're putting into your posts. I'll bet this project will become a must-read for all noobs like me. Keep up the great work! :applaud:
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Thanks for the encouragement! I'll try to keep up the details, as I know it really helps to have more than a summary of each step when you're not familiar with the things you need to do (at least I know it helped me).
Sadly, I can only progress this through the weekends, since you know, I don't wanna get fired ::) and being winter here means that by the time I get home it already starts to get dark soon so no point in setting up shop outside for a couple of minutes of light.. :angry:
Hope to have more on saturday!
:cheers:
walterg74:
So.. About to continue with the build tomorrow...
Haven't seen any of the woodworking gurus around, if any of you guys hapoen to read this,mgot any advice to my questions on the next steps? ( and/or the panel cuts issues?) :-\
jammin0:
--- Quote from: walterg74 on May 27, 2012, 10:03:34 pm ---The arrival of Sunday came with the chance of doing some more work on this...
Now one thing I will say, and here I make a pause for the experienced folks to tell me why, is that most cuts did not come out good at the end. I know I don't have the best (or even the most basic) way of holding the wood properly to cut it with the circular saw, and all my cuts consisted in placing the long end of the wood on the table and the short end (closest to the cut) onto a chair, and eveytime I would make a cut for each panel I would get something
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No super expert here but my guess is that your wood pieces have some flex and the weig of your circular saw/ the force you're using downward on your saw is causing a break at the end. I don't have a very good workspace so I usually end up cutting on the floor. If you place enough scrap under both sides then you should breeze through it. Try and envision when the cut is finished what will happen to it. Is it supported enough that it will remain in place? If either side is able to tip off your work surface (I'm guessing your chair side) then that's why you're getting too much flex and tear out at the end.
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