gift of for my wife [Archive]

Madball

27 Feb 2006, 3:53am

I made this over the weekend while my wife was away. She was very pleasantly suprised when she got home. The glass for the doors and shelves will come next week.

tmh88

27 Feb 2006, 4:05am

that looks great, I'm sure she'll love it....Howd you make it that fast?

Kwitko

27 Feb 2006, 4:05am

You did that in one weekend??? Holy crap, you're a pro! Nice work!

Madball

27 Feb 2006, 4:19am

You did that in one weekend??? Holy crap, you're a pro! Nice work!

Like you said, I'm a pro. I do this for a living. I've been so busy building things for customers, that I had to take some time and make something for myself. My wife has been wanting one for quite awhile now.

It was a long weekend. I spent about 14 hours on it Saturday and another 10 today.

tmh88

27 Feb 2006, 4:56am

sfleuriet

27 Feb 2006, 5:14am

That's beautiful, madball :thumbsup:

primesuspect

27 Feb 2006, 2:06pm

nice work!

GHoosdum

27 Feb 2006, 2:10pm

That is amazing.

If I tried to build something like that for my wife while she was away, she'd have to be gone for several weeks, and it would only look half as good.

QCH

27 Feb 2006, 4:33pm

does plywood look that good stained? That's about as fancy as I can go...

Looks GREAT Madball!!!!!!! You should do these for a living... oh yeah, you do and it shows!!! :thumbsup:

GHoosdum

27 Feb 2006, 4:44pm

Actually, finsh grade/cabinet grade plywood does stain up quite nicely, and if you edge it with real wood or even wood veneer (real wood veneer, not stickers) it makes a decent piece of furniture.

Add a few decades of practice and one of us could be making pieces that look as good as Madball's.

Leonardo

27 Feb 2006, 6:04pm

Beautiful work. No matter where technology leads us in the future, human, handcrafted things will always have an emotional appeal.

Madball

27 Feb 2006, 7:12pm

Actually most of it is plywood. The sides and top of the base cabinet are plywood. Much cheaper and easier than using solid oak.

GHoosdum: I've only been doing this for about one decade. I'm only 29. :)

GHoosdum

27 Feb 2006, 7:24pm

GHoosdum: I've only been doing this for about one decade. I'm only 29. :)

You have a gift. :thumbsup:

I still think it would take me several decades to get that good, if ever. :respect:

V|P

27 Feb 2006, 8:20pm

I love working on any kind of project. Wheter its for school, or just for myself, i love having a task to complete. Kinda weird, but i also like having deadlines because it keeps me on task, which is pretty much the opposite of "normal" people. I just like to have a final goal in my mind, and then figuring out how to accomplish it... just a few of the reasons why im going into electrical engineering, and well i love electronics/computers.
o_O me too. But for me it's more of the hands on thing. Liek if you read my other thread I get bored reading shakespeare and stuff. I'm more of a hands-on person. and madball, thats really really cool.

Trogan

27 Feb 2006, 8:22pm

That looks awesome. Excellent work madball :thumbsup:

I could use something like that here.

LIN

27 Feb 2006, 8:26pm

I made this over the weekend while my wife was away. She was very pleasantly suprised when she got home. The glass for the doors and shelves will come next week.
that's beautiful.. is there lighting inside or is the glow i see from the overheads?

LIN

csimon

27 Feb 2006, 8:33pm

Are the sides paneled or glass? Looks like a nice touch!

Nice work and especially nice shop!

McBain

28 Feb 2006, 12:53am

Why's the door on the right backwards?

tmh88

28 Feb 2006, 1:21am

Beautiful work. No matter where technology leads us in the future, human, handcrafted things will always have an emotional appeal.

I dont think we'll be hand making cpu's and mobos anytime soon. ;D ;D

Madball

28 Feb 2006, 6:13am

that's beautiful.. is there lighting inside or is the glow i see from the overheads?

LIN

There is a light inside, but it's not on in the picture. You must be seeing the glow from the overheads.

Are the sides paneled or glass? Looks like a nice touch!

Yep, the sides are glass.

Why's the door on the right backwards?

The two doors on the right open into a large compartment. The door on the left is a single, smaller compartment.

TheSmJ

28 Feb 2006, 9:26am

Madball; it's a funny thing, but the kitchen cabinets in my house has the exact same door pattern, and it appears that the handles and knobs are also the exact same thing.

You wouldn't happen to have ever worked on such a project in the past have you? :P Do you have close-ups of the patterns on the knobs and handles? If they're the same then that's one hell of a coincidence...

EDIT: Never mind. A closer look shows the hardware has brown trim (is that the correct term?) while the stuff here has white with a brown "flowery" pattern. Still, the molding around the drawers, doors and everything else is spot on. Are those shapes used often in wooden cabinets or is that just coincidental?

Either way it's beautiful.

Madball

1 Mar 2006, 5:55am

The hardware was some I had in my collection. I found a hardware store going out of business and bought all of there cabinet hardware, so I have a BIG collection.

The detail around the doors and drawers is fairly common. The router bit used was from one of the largest bit companies in the world, so I'd say I'm probably not the only one who uses it.

Thanks for all the comments. I'm glad you all like it. I'm working on a photo album of all my work, but there is a lot of pictures to sort out, so it's taking some time. I'll post it when its done.

GHoosdum

1 Mar 2006, 1:38pm

I'd certainly be very interested in seeing that photo album. By all means, post it when you make it!

profdlp

1 Mar 2006, 3:44pm

I'd certainly be very interested in seeing that photo album. By all means, post it when you make it!
Same here. That is an incredibly beautiful piece of work. :respect: