Coffee Cup Shelves, continued-cutting shelves and sanding

Hi Everyone,

Well today I finished cutting all the wood for the shelves. I dry fitted the framework and cut the shelves to measure and notched the corners of the shelvs so they would fit snugly into the framework. After that I sanded everything and later this evening I'm going to seal the parts and stain them. Here's today's photos:

Here's the photo of an individual shelf-It's 5" wide and I sawed a 1/2" x1" notch out of the rear corners:

Here's how the shelf fits into the frame:

And here is a photo of the coffee cup shelves all dry fitted together: 

After this I did the sanding and took a piece of scrap wood and stained it with Minwax Black Walnut wood stain. I did it twice and got a good result:

As it's really hot outside, I'll probably go out later when the sun is setting and stain the wood. Tomorrow I'll begin putting the finish on.

Stay tuned,
VW

Coffee Cup Shelves

Hi Everyone,

Here's a new project: a coffee cup shelf rack for cups, bags of coffee, and other stuff. I have one in my kitchen and my daughter in law asked me to make her one so here goes:

Discussion and Plans

My daughter in law has lots of mugs and needs extra space to house all of them in her kitchen along with some spice containers from her spice rack. So I decided to help her out and make her one out of pine. 

The coffee cup shelf I made is a box with shelves and I don't think it's the most elegant thing I've ever seen. It looks like a big boxy thing with cups in it so to avoid that, this rack won't have a back and will not really have any side either (see below). 

So I went to the big box store and got some 1"x 6"x48" select pine boards, a fresh can of Minwax polyurethane, and some black walnut stain (she wanted dark shelving to match the cabinets in her kitchen) and got to work. 

Here's some photos:

Here is the framework for the rack. This will all be visible and stained dark brown. The shelf below is only a piece of scrap wood to give you an idea where the shelves will be placed. The actual shelves will sit on the side rails and be a little bit wider:

 In the next two photos you'll see that I was working on cutting out the parts for the rack. It's been beastly hot here and after I finished cutting, I gave up and went inside. Whew! It was tough out there!

Now tomorrow I'm going to cut out the shelves and then dry fit the whole thing together and check on the fit of all the parts. After that I'll take it apart and stain everything and let it dry. Later this weekend, I'll assemble it and we'll see what it looks like.

Stay tuned,
VW

Pet Urn-Compeletion Photos

Hi Everyone,

I'm sorry I didn't post these photos sooner-I've injured one of my knees and I've been hobbling around trying to get through the list of things I need to do.

Ok, here is the finished urn out of maple and cypress woods:

Here is the underside of the lid-you can see the brass cap screwed in place and a rubber gasket. The brass cap screws down to the base and the gasket prevents the contents from coming out:

Should it not be possible to unscrew the lid at some future point, I've left a dimple on the bottom of the lathe that marks where a drill hold could be placed and the contents shaken out:

So we'll call the project done.

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News: I have a new lathe coming and it should be here in mid-July. In the mean time I'm going to work on some furniture projects that have been on my to - do list for a while: a coffee cup cabinet, a living room chair, and a coffee table so stay tuned.

Thanks for dropping by and watching the project build. There's always something going on here at the shop so grab some coffee and put your feet up. 

See you soon,
VW

Pet Urn, assembled and completed

Hi Everyone,

Well the urn is finished. I've epoxied the brass part into the body and lid of the urn and the epoxy is setting. Here's today's photos:

Ok, here are the parts of the urn: wooden top and bottom and the brass hose fittings to be epoxied into the top and bottom of the urn:

I use JB Weld Epoxy for all sorts of stuff. I've never had it fail and I think on their website there's a story about someone using it to repair an engine block in a farm tractor in Texas. Wow!
JB Weld

Here's a photo of the underside of the lid with the brass cap epoxied in place:

This is the hose portion that is going to be epoxied into the bottom in a minute:

And here is the fitting epoxied in place:

And with that the urn is complete.
I'm going to let this harden over night. On Monday I'll get completion photos for you before I mail it off.

As tomorrow is Father's Day here in the US and my birthday, I'm taking the day off!!

See you Monday,
VW

Pet Urn continued-closing the bottom of the urn

Hi Everyone,

I've enclosed the urn with a small piece of hard maple. Here it is on the lathe ready to be turned:

And here it is almost finished. I plan to lightly sand both the bottom and body of the urn again and then apply a coat of polyurethane to both:

Here it is, upside down inside my home and attached to the Nova chuck. Once it's dry and that shouldn't take too long as it's hot here today, I'll put it back on the lathe and apply another coat of poly:

In a day or two when the finish is fully applied to the body and the lid, I'll epoxy the brass fitting in place and then it will be finished.

Stay tuned,
VW

Pet Urn, continued-sanding and adding the finish

Hi All,

I've finished turning the top and the body of the urn so I sanded everything very smooth and put a first coat of clear polyurethane on both parts. Here are the photos:

Here's the top:

...and here's the bottom. I still need to make the bottom for the urn and I'll do that tomorrow after everything has dried:

Stay tuned,
VW