mrossk

Very nice. Tasteful and fun.

Very nice (or is that ninja?). Simple, elegant, effective. And I agree- like many things, having a correct strategy is often more important than having advanced technical skills.

very nice. On a simple piece the proportions become even more important. I think you nailed it.

FWIW, The old problem still exists of being signed out of my account everytime I close the FWW website. Somewhat annoying to have to log back in everytime I open the site. btw, I'm using AOL on Windows 7

ReedGarrett- Thanks for your comment- sorry it's taken me a while, I've been out of touch. The horizontal joint is indeed a through mortise and tenon, and the vertical joint is a blind mortice and tenon that actually pierces the horizontal (it's narrower by 1/4" or so on each side) effectively locking the horizontal in place. I cut the vertical mortice after assembling the horizontal m&t. First time I tried it, it worked well.

Nice one, again, Dave, thanks! I like your dovetail layout trick.

nicely done Dave- similar but different to Aidan Chopra's "breaking apart a frame". Nice to see a different, but equally valid, approach. (Oh, and Happy Birthday!)
Michael

I like this trick with auto-fold. I'm pretty sure, however, that as long as you select the inner face first, then use the move tool, it's not necessary to draw those 4 lines to connect the corners. Sketchup puts them there for you. Not a big deal, but saves a couple of steps.
Best,
Michael

So what's the secret? How did you mount it? Oh, and it's lovely too!

Very sweet. Nicely done.

Sorry for the delay- The dimensions of the box are 52x22x5 3/8. and the base is 11 5/8 high. I don't recall exactly the space between the two, an inch maybe? Glad you like it. I'd make it again, lots of wood combinations would work well.

45^2: Thank you very much. Does your kind comment imply that there are things about the lower cabinet you like less? I'm open to criticism in the hopes of improving. (btw, the cabinet was designed to hold art supplies, so to an extent function drove form) best,
Michael

Very elegant Dave, thanks! Quick question- what is the ".707" you used when calculating the radii? My trig is very dusty...
Thanks again,
Michael

that was a fun one, Dave, thanks!

Really nice explanations, thanks. As a brief hijack- Does anyone know of resources to help with a "How To..." to actually build this in the shop?

Thanks for that explanation, Dave.

I wonder- is there a way to have the button that says "replace selection with component" be checked by default? It seems as if sometimes it's checked and sometimes it's not.

wow!

Hi Dave- Yes, that takes care of it! Originally, I was setting diagonal guidelines "orthogonally" , on what will become the face of the square you extrude. After wrestling with it for awhile myself I came to the above sort of realization and got a good result. And fyi, I used the "curviloft" plugin and didn't need to do the "divide line segment" and "weld" to get a decent shape. saved a couple of steps. But, as usual, thanks very much. A great exercise!
Michael

I wonder if anyone else has tried this? I followed the steps above and didn't get the correct sized "portion" of the star. I suspect it's something I did, but wanted to see if anyone else had difficulty?

Oh, it's working now, thanks! But "exercise" in the title is still misspelled ;)

Is it just me, or are the screenshots not visible?

and Saturday too, it seems

3 days huh? You work pretty quick! Very nice

Hi Dave- I'm the first to admit that I'm not very plug-in savvy, but I wonder if, instead of the "extrude by rails" plugin, you could have accomplished the same by using the "skinning by shapes" plugin that you used in the Windsor chair seat demo? I'm trying to keep my learning curve to a manageble radius.
Thanks,
Michael

Dave- excellent! Thank you.

Very nice. Elegant, understated. Question- Is the carcass mitered? (Hard to tell from this photo) And I guess becuase the legs are attached only to the edge of the carcass and the top, and there are no side rails, wood movement isn't an issue?

bduffin: thanks. All the frame parts (legs, rails, and the lid frame) are mesquite. A great wood, though hard, prone to imperfections (cracks, checks), but beautiful. I did cut the veneer myself, from some boards an old shopmate of mine left(forgot?) in our shop when he left. It was the first time I worked with it- though I much prefer its color and character to plainer maples.
The curved side panels are 3/8" bender board, I pretty much bent it to its minimum radius at the top part of the curve. A little springback, but I was able to wrestle it into its grooves. The front panels are MDF. The panels on the lid are solid wood, as are the two bubinga pieces.

thanks guys. I originally built it as a spec piece, but became quite fond of it during the process. It may just live at the foot of my bed...

thanks! actually, the design came first- wanted the doors to be sort of "sexy", like a neckline. Got lucky with some beautiful walnut from Hearne

I agree that it's good and necessary to "think outside the box." However, sometimes being different, or unique, or "weird", for it's own sake simply leads to a lot of junk. With all the references to Krenov recently, remember what he said about "design"? If I may loosely paraphrase, that one doesn't have to be all that inventive- it's more about caring and doing it well... I'm not trying to bash the above idea about innovation- but, in my opinion, it should be tempered by an appreciation of quality and caring.

I've been fooling around with this on some small boxes and have run into some difficulties. Does anyone know if there is a minimum "overall length" that the plugin will accept? On my boxes (3 1/8" tall) the layout that is produced is too big

(I apologize for the multiple posts, not sure what happened!)

Hi Dave- nice video, thanks. I have a question. How would you handle the situation where you want to save a component in your library for future use that has its axes different from the global axes, but you still will want to be able to flip along an axis? For example, in your 1st video you have the angled wall cupboard- suppose that were an angled table leg with joinery included,and you wanted to pull in 3 more and place them around a table. Would you then have to realign the coponents axis to match the global axis for the copying procedure, and then change it back yet again (before running CutList for example)?
Does that make sense? Thanks for your attention,
Michael

Hi Dave- nice video, thanks. I have a question. How would you handle the situation where you want to save a component in your library for future use that has its axes different from the global axes, but you still will want to be able to flip along an axis? For example, in your 1st video you have the angled wall cupboard- suppose that were an angled table leg with joinery included,and you wanted to pull in 3 more and place them around a table. Would you then have to realign the coponents axis to match the global axis for the copying procedure, and then change it back yet again (before running CutList for example)?

Hi Dave- nice video, thanks. I have a question. How would you handle the situation where you want to save a component in your library for future use that has its axes different from the global axes, but you still will want to be able to flip along an axis? For example, in your 1st video you have the angled wall cupboard- suppose that were an angled table leg with joinery included,and you wanted to pull in 3 more and place them around a table. Would you then have to realign the coponents axis to match the global axis for the copying procedure, and then change it back yet again (before running CutList for example)?

actually, she owns a Ducati, but we both appreciate the Asian aesthetic...But thanks for the remark!