It is finally time to post some information about a project, after about a month and a half since the last one! Today we will be looking at the design and construction of a custom mirror frame that I am building for me and my wife. I have had a 48″ x 32″ mirror sitting [...]
Before I launch into my most recent project to quickly let me begin with a little bit of background. My wife and I have owned a used bookstore for the past three years. We made the difficult decision about three weeks ago to close the doors for business. Once all the tears were shed and [...]
One of the reasons it has been so long since I last posted anything is because I am to busy building projects to write! I installed the entertainment center on the the 11th of July and finished up the detail work on July 16th, which left me with a mere week to finish up the [...]
I figured my day yesterday (6/9) deserved a mention on the blog. Yesterday I was buried to my eyeballs in projects, which I began working on non-stop from 7:45 AM until 3 PM! As a result my humble shop looked like a disaster! I don’t have much workbench surface to work on, just one main [...]
The challenge before me was to paint three of these humongous free standing bookcases. They are not going to be permanently mounted to the wall, but given that each one weighs a bit more than 200 lbs, they aren’t going to be moved very often. Each one is constructed from three sheets of 3/4″ MDF [...]