Main > Project Announcements
The Arcade Even A Wife Can Love (Back From The Dead!)
javeryh:
Thanks for the tips guys. I'm probably a ways off from staining it... I need to finish building the CP box - I want to stain everything at once. It's coming along...
I'll post some more pics soon of the glue-up - it's starting to look like a real cabinet and the proportions are perfect. I think it's going to be nice since this is the first "real" cabinet I've ever built... and maybe this doesn't even count...
javeryh:
Alright people - check it out. I glued up all of the panels I cut and everything came together pretty nicely - angles and all. The joints are all quite tight and I'm happy so far. The cabinet was put together using #20 biscuits to help me line everything up. I LOVE my biscuit joiner - this was the first project I used it for and it worked great and saved a ton of time. On my last project I installed 3/4" x 1.5" cleats along all of the lines where interior panels were going to be placed for support. It was difficult lining everything up and required many extra hours of work. The biscuit joiner cut all of that out - plus it gives me added strength on all of the joints.
Anyway, not much more to say other than check out the pics! Stay tuned for the unclamping!!!
Kaytrim:
Looking good javeryh. Is it me or do those bar clamps look like they are bending on the back panel? From what I am learning over on the Woodnet forums pipe clamps are better in the longer lengths for strength. You also want to be sure that you don't over clamp a joint. You could starve the joint for glue and then it wouldn't hold over time. This is because glue gains it's strength by soaking into the pores of the wood.
TTFN
javeryh:
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on November 29, 2007, 04:21:53 pm ---Looking good javeryh. Is it me or do those bar clamps look like they are bending on the back panel? From what I am learning over on the Woodnet forums pipe clamps are better in the longer lengths for strength. You also want to be sure that you don't over clamp a joint. You could starve the joint for glue and then it wouldn't hold over time. This is because glue gains it's strength by soaking into the pores of the wood.
TTFN
--- End quote ---
It's you. ;) Actually, it's the weird angle I took the photo at. The back panel is perfectly straight/square and I don't think I overclamped. Plus, I dropped glue in all the biscuit slots so I should be OK as far as stability goes. It's rock solid without the clamps... for now, at least... :cheers:
theCoder:
Biscuits and glue should hold fine. The originals were held together with staples & glue. I'm convinced the staples were only needed until the glue dried.
My wife doesn't mind me taking my time on these projects, just so long as the mess/tools do not linger around forever.
Look'n good.