Larry | February 15, 2010
I’m struggling with the design of the vanity area of a bathroom, as described in a previous post. While I’ve been keeping SketchUp warm, everything I come up with looks like a big box and I’m not sure what to do about it. So, I’m coming to you. Any and all ideas will be appreciated.
Here’s [...]
Larry | February 1, 2010
We often find ourselves building a cabinet or furniture piece for a particular space. I thought it might be useful to report on my actions as I stumble through the design and creation of a set of bathroom cabinets.
I must start with a confession. Years ago, in a galaxy far, far away…no, that’s another story. [...]
Larry | November 23, 2009
Sometimes I’m asked where I got the plan for this or that project. Most times I don’t have a plan but in this case I do. Here it is:
Bob Roziaeski, chief cook and bottle washer at the Logan Cabinet Shoppe produces some of the finest podcasts you’ll ever see on the use of handtools to [...]
Larry | November 18, 2009
Do you own one of these? Do you carry it with you everywhere? Writers are fond of carrying notebooks. They record ideas, observations, facts and probably grocery lists in their notebooks. Writers tell you that to be a writer you must write constantly. Apparently they do.
I acquired this habit as a writer but I do [...]
Larry | October 30, 2009
My wife came to me a couple days ago and she was holding a small strainer that looked as though it has survived, barely, the Battle of Gettysburg. She said, “Could you buy a new one of these tommorrow?” I said, “Sure.”
This wouldn’t be worth mentioning except that the same day I read yet another [...]
Larry | July 26, 2009
Many miniaturists own a scroll saw. Often it’s the only major power tool that they own beyond a Dremel tool and they use it in their miniatures work. It seems like I’ve had one in my shop forever and for most of that time, like others, I used it in my modeling and never gave [...]
Larry | June 6, 2009
What is the proper table height for a dining table, a coffee table, or an end table? When creating a chair, how high should the seat be? How deep? And what’s up with the staggered depths of drawers in standard bedroom chests?
These are some of the questions that come to mind when we design a [...]
Larry | June 5, 2009
We live in a time where many book and movie heros are wizards and witches. Do wizards and witches date on another? Ya gotta wonder, for instance, whether Ms McGonagle and Dumbledore were an item. I don’t know about you, but I’ve often wondered if Gandalf had a ’significant other.’
When my brain goes off on [...]
Larry | June 4, 2009
The world of miniatures is really a dichotomous adventure. On the one hand there is craftsmanship. Can you make things and make them well enough that they look realistic? But there’s also an imagination component that is often avoided in other forms of scale modeling. In miniatures, however, it separates the great from the rest [...]
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