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SNAAAKE:
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--- Quote from: SNAAAKE on March 05, 2003, 10:15:08 pm ---Everything in my cab is done without a router..i did the t-molding slots with a dremel.And cut laminate with plexi glass cutter..score it couple of times and snap..works great(its cheap solution for me) :)
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I don't have a router, but I do have a dremel tool...haven't used it in some time now. How would I go about doing t-molding with it, and would I be better (straighter) to try and track someone down and borrow a real router for the t-molding?
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Did you ever visit the "BEAM" project?
The guy explains..its a pain in the arsh if you wanna do the whole cabinet though >:(.
http://www.geocities.com/brian_coney/maincabinetpage.html
You could be very evil and buy a router from home depot and as soon as you are done you can just go back and return it..you have 90 days..this opition is only if you are REALLY poor and stuff.(I did this when i was 15 and i had to money no buy a jigsaw).
Nothing wrong with being honest right?
Atleast I am not lying. :P
PS:dont the beam cab look little similer to mine?(I know the "BEAM" cab looks a WHOLE LOT better but still)
Frostillicus:
--- Quote from: Xphile on March 06, 2003, 10:19:02 pm ---Frostillicus:
re-read the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of my first post in this thread (that would be post #4 from the top).
I'm a woodworker by trade..I just don't like posting some 'absolutes' - ie: "The ply dried out and cracked because it had a high moisture content from sitting next to the roll up door at home depot and I was in too much of a hurry to get it done to do the right thing and let it dry first"...that makes me look stupid, (the fact that I was <or just sloppy) is irrelevent, I just don't want to Look that way.. :) )
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I don't want people to get the wrong idea about building/painting with wood- your example is not the norm and might turn people off of painting it instead of laminating.
Laminate looks good, but it looks kind of 'kmart' to me (like a screw-together desk or something). That is personal opinion.
What does your shop do if a customer wants a piece painted and not stained? Don't you use something like Kwik Sand to seal the grain?
rampy:
--- Quote from: Frostillicus on March 07, 2003, 04:58:47 pm ---
I don't want people to get the wrong idea about building/painting with wood- your example is not the norm and might turn people off of painting it instead of laminating.
Laminate looks good, but it looks kind of 'kmart' to me (like a screw-together desk or something). That is personal opinion.
What does your shop do if a customer wants a piece painted and not stained? Don't you use something like Kwik Sand to seal the grain?
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Hey frosty,
are you mixing up melamine with laminate? I can see how faux-woodgrain laminate would look k-mart furniture-esque... but wouldn't black laminate just look authentic?
Of course I have a painted cab and am happy with it (i even removed the crackling ancient laminate to paint it black - cue the stones song)
Not that one couldn't paint plywood... but I'd think you'd have an easier time with mdf for painting... and use lower grade plywood and laminate... or go nutz with the sanding sealer =P (or embrace the woodgrain)
*shrug* wtf do I know?
rampy
Xphile:
--- Quote from: Frostillicus on March 07, 2003, 04:58:47 pm ---What does your shop do if a customer wants a piece painted and not stained? Don't you use something like Kwik Sand to seal the grain?
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(edited cause I had to take the kids to a dance, and didn't have time to type everything..:-)
i'm not the finisher, but if they want it painted, we build it, 180 it, Then I believe it gets primer white first to seal the grain, sanded with 320 after by the finisher - "don't sand through the primer whatever you do!" were the wise words spoken to me many years ago the first time I had to sand primer...(I'd hate to be a finisher, their job *sucks*:-) and catalysing enamel paint for the top coats.
the primer shows grain just fine with one coat, that's why I had to use so many coats, (trowelled <literally> on the celoset (pretroleum based wood filler) first, too..sanded with 120,150,180, primed, filled, 320, primed,320, primed,etc,etc..:-)
sorry,I ramble, what was the question again? :-)