Craftisian Blogs

With the base glue-up completed, I placed the staves on it see how they looked together.  That thing is looking way too thick.  Maybe it will look ...

The staves required a dowel hole on the bottom to align with the corresponding holes in the base.   These will not be glued joints.  Instead, I'll ...

The overall shelf's structure comprises several elements: • A back panel that is a one-sided torsion box. • Individual shelves that are torsion box...

I had the assembled shelf/side torsion box skeletons and beveled skins. All that was left was gluing the skins to the skeletons, hopefully without ...

My original design for the individual shelves would have been significantly easier to build than the ones I ended up building. I had planned to bui...

In my final design, each individual shelf and vertical side is a narrow torsion box (1 3/4" thick) with a skeleton made of 3/4" thick plywood spine...

(I actually cut and beveled the edges of the thin plywood skins first, then sized the skeleton parts to match, but I'll describe the work in revers...

Unlike most projects, finishing was by far the easiest part of this one. I sanded everything to 280 grit and, in preparation, used every portable ...

I started with some cherry, surfaced down to just under 1 inch thick, edged glued two pieces for the necessary width, which would then be cut in ha...

The original lamps had upper and lower sockets and a 4-way switch so that either bulb or both bulbs could be illuminated.  I'll be using LED strips...

The thickness of the staves of the original lamp gently narrow from bottom to top.   Ordinarily, I would do that tapering prior to shaping the edge...

My homework prior to making the staves was to work out how to join them at 120 degrees to each other and allow for lamp pipe to pass through the ce...