In keeping with my intention to show photos of my interests during the year and having said that one of my interests was building furniture, todays posting shows the completion of the largest project I have attempted.
I started this towards the end of last year and had expected to finish before we went to Hong Kong at the end of January. Unfortunately another project of the 365 variety intervened which took up a lot of my time and I only finished yesterday.
These two display cabinets/book cases were the last two pieces completed.
I think they came up pretty well. The first part of the project is in my other album at http://365project.org/terryliv/directors-cut/2014-05-03
I haven't really finished as I now need to make an entertainment unit to sit between these two cabinets. That will need to wait for a while though.
There is also going to be an argument with the kids who want me to ditch the two speakers in favour of some small modern dinky ones. "But they're good speakers" (in 1980). "They are old, not cool and take up too much room dad". But but but . . . . . . . .
Nice one Poppo, you clearly have more than photography talents! And bugger the kids.......you keep those big ol' speakers.......the kids of today know NOTHING about speakers HAHAHAH
Nice job. It didn't take you as long as it did my husband to make things either.
About 5 years ago we got a new tv and the tv stand was too small for it so David said "I can make one". He drew up the plans bought the wood and then other things got in the way, Last week he finally got back to it and finished the job. I think my lesson in this life is patience!
Nice job, they look great. I admire someone who has that ability to make something like this. It's a skill I do not have, at least one that I never attempted to develop.
@digitalrn I'll bet it is more a case of not attempting to develop the skill rather than not having it. I have always loved timber furniture but it is always pretty exxy for anything that looks presentable (don't know what it is like over there) and I could never get exactly what I wanted. So about 10 years ago I started mucking around building a few things. Progressively bought some appropriate tools and graduated to more difficult projects after I retired. Have a number of jobs lined up for the grand kids now. BTW I spent my whole working life in IT - a far cry from wood work LOL.
Wow, what a great job. You sure have so many talents. It is apparent by so many things you post and you must have a great deal of energy to achieve all that you do.
@lyndemc@tonydebont@vegansusan@moxy@leestevo@lhiphonesnaps@kiscsillag Thank you everyone. Jack of most trades, Master of none. That's me. I think the problem is that I get bored doing the same thing all the time.and so I like to dabble here and dabble there. It will be quite a while before I get the urge to build the next piece of furniture. I was done with it by the time I had finished these. @lhiphonesnaps Lauren, it is just mixed Australian Eucalypt hardwoods mainly Spotted gum, red gum, iron barks, grey gum, blackbut. All floors in Oz were once built using these timbers - now it costs an arm and a leg and other cheaper flooring is used.
There is also going to be an argument with the kids who want me to ditch the two speakers in favour of some small modern dinky ones. "But they're good speakers" (in 1980). "They are old, not cool and take up too much room dad". But but but . . . . . . . .
About 5 years ago we got a new tv and the tv stand was too small for it so David said "I can make one". He drew up the plans bought the wood and then other things got in the way, Last week he finally got back to it and finished the job. I think my lesson in this life is patience!
Thank you everyone. Glad you liked them.
I should have pointed out that this is just a temporary location and where I put the last one when I finished. It is certainly not the plan to have cabinet - speaker- cabinet- speaker. LOL.
I was going to post a pic of the absolute mess I now have downstairs and will start cleaning up today but I think I will give that a miss. I am not the worlds most tidy worker.
@gigiflower @hermann @karlow75
"I love small speakers,
I love tall speakers,
If they've music,
They're wired for sound"
@sabanford They also pick our nursing home Shirley LOL
@lhiphonesnaps Lauren, it is just mixed Australian Eucalypt hardwoods mainly Spotted gum, red gum, iron barks, grey gum, blackbut. All floors in Oz were once built using these timbers - now it costs an arm and a leg and other cheaper flooring is used.