mrossk
santa fe, nmmember
Contributions
blanket chest
Another blanket chest, coincidence! This one is mesquite, western curly maple, and figured bubinga, with spanish cedar interior. Curved veneered panels, angled joinery. Whew!
jewelry wall cabinet
Jewelry wall cabinet, made from air dried black walnut and European pear, blistered maple drawer fronts. Carcase splined with pear. Side panels are solid wood, edge glued on the curve between walnut...
asian sideboard
Japanese inspired sideboard. Claro and black walnut. Sliding doors with shoji inspired detail. Rabbet-mitered-pinned drawers (whew!). Carved curve in the top.
modern tansu
made to store motorcycle gear- shedua carcass, with mesquite, sycamore and pear (each wood had meaning for the client)
jewelry cabinet
made for my sister- figured walnut, quilted maple and pear





Recent comments
Re: Adding Materials to Your Model
Dave- excellent! Thank you.
posted: 11:03 am on January 28thRe: Floating-top Liquor Cabinet
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?
posted: 4:53 pm on January 26thRe: blanket chest
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.
posted: 4:04 pm on January 16thThe 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.
Re: blanket chest
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...
posted: 10:19 pm on January 14thRe: jewelry wall cabinet
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
posted: 4:42 pm on October 21stRe: Opening Gambits
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.
posted: 10:42 am on September 29thRe: Dovetail Joints in SketchUp Made Easy
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
posted: 3:44 pm on August 15thRe: Placing Components
(I apologize for the multiple posts, not sure what happened!)
posted: 11:18 am on July 31stRe: Placing Components
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)?
posted: 11:17 am on July 31stDoes that make sense? Thanks for your attention,
Michael
Re: Placing Components
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)?
posted: 11:16 am on July 31stRe: Placing Components
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)?
posted: 11:16 am on July 31stRe: modern tansu
actually, she owns a Ducati, but we both appreciate the Asian aesthetic...But thanks for the remark!
posted: 5:46 pm on June 16th