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 | November 5, 2009
It seems I was a bit spartan in my word use in my asymmetric tenon post, leaving much to be desired in terms of explanation.
Shannon Rogers commented, “I’m a little confused or maybe I’m missing a step. After you cut the tenons and mortises then you then go back and run a rabbet on the [...]
Larry | April 17, 2009
As I was pondering the construction of the casket for Lisa, my two neurons rubbed together and spoke. They said, “Why don’t you step through the construction of this box with the folks, showing them some of the things you do when building miniatures?” As these two neurons are all I have to work with, [...]
Larry | April 14, 2009
Remember Lisa Salati? She’s the wonderful lady who got me involved in the casket project I’ve reported on recently. Well guess what? She wants another one. This one should be a bit easier as there’s no pyramid top, no drawers, and no doors. Just a box with a hinged lid.
We’ve discussed sizes (it’ll be 1″ [...]
Larry | March 4, 2009
I was talking with Pat Roberson about scrollsaws and the topic of vibration came up. I told her about reading, somewhere on the Internet, that a 3-legged table was superior to even a heavy workbench as a support for a scrollsaw. This discussion suggested an experiment. You run your scrollsaw on your bench and then [...]
Larry | March 3, 2009
Recently I presented SketchUp drawings of a kitchen tracklight and my idea of what a wood base for it would look like if I built one. A couple people have asked for the drawing so they could see how I did it. You can grab them here if you’re interested.
This weekend was really hectic and [...]
Larry | February 26, 2009
Ok..ok…I give. I once said that I wouldn’t do SketchUp tutorials since there are so many great videos available. I wish I had a camcorder as I’d be less reluctant to do them. But I’ve had a lot of people respond to the SketchUp graphic of my kitchen track light
and everyone of those emails asked [...]
Larry | February 22, 2009
We bought a simple track light to replace a flourescent fixture in our kitchen. It’s copper-colored, with 3 lights and some twisty tubular structures to hold the lights onto a central base. I installed it. It works. It provides light. But it has all the ‘chic’ of lava lamp, though I don’t mean to insult [...]
Larry | February 10, 2009
This is really not a SketchUp tutorial as there are more than enough tutorials on using SketchUp’s Follow Me tool. Rather, this is a reflection of a “Hey, that’s cool” moment that I had this morning.
I have a small piece of scroll saw art that I wanted to frame. My vision was to do something [...]
Larry | February 5, 2009
Do you have any good buddies that you’ve never met? I do. The Internet has spawned a whole new way of enjoying friendships and my buddy, Pat Roberson and I write regularly about what we’re doing and want to do with our miniatures projects.
Anyway, she mentioned that she wanted to build a game table but [...]
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