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maple bathroom/modern

DavidxDoud | Posted in Photo Gallery on June 26, 2004 07:09am

back at ya – nice…

how do you keep those doors flat?  and that vacuum trick – it was done in place? – – seems like you would still need jigs – – tell me (us) more…

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  1. DougU | Jun 26, 2004 07:37am | #1

    DD

    Vanity was built in the shop. Still have to build a template(jig) for each individual radii, then put the laminates in the jig(only need one side, either pos or neg) the vacuum exerts so much pressure that there is no need to clamp. The resin adhesive that we use hardens like glass, becomes part of the structure, doesn't allow spring back.

    When I used to make curved work with the pos and neg jigs I would glue up(often with yellow wood glue) clamp the living crapola out of it, take it out in the morn and have some amount of spring back, with the vacuum and the resin glue its virtually gone. You could use the resin glue with the pos and neg jig but the vacuum is the trick, it has so much more pressure than you could ever hope to get out of clamps, plus its a lot less work.

    The key on the elliptical vanity is that you have to maintain the proper radius, hard to do it with yellow glue and jigs.

    This modern stuff is not my cup of tea but it was fun doing.

    Doug

  2. kostello | Jun 26, 2004 09:33am | #2

    nice!!!!!

    looks loveeeerrrrrllllyyyy

    not sure if i could live without handles though????!!!!

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    JeffBuck | Jun 26, 2004 09:38am | #3

    very nice.

    real close to what I tried to get my last "modern"customer to shoot for ....

    Same deal here ... I'd not have it in my own house ... not my style ...

    but I can appreciate it done well.

    so ...

    well done.

    Jeff

    Buck Construction, llc   Pittsburgh,PA

         Artistry in Carpentry                

  4. StanFoster | Jun 26, 2004 01:25pm | #4

    Nice workmanship.....

    1. Snort | Jun 26, 2004 10:15pm | #7

      Dang Doug, I do like that stuff. Is it cherry stained to look like poplar? <G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!

      1. DougU | Jun 27, 2004 03:39am | #9

        billy

         Is it cherry stained to look like poplar

        Man you got a good eye!

        Doug

  5. CAGIV | Jun 26, 2004 05:37pm | #5

    just posting here so I can find it when I get back to my high speed connection on monday..

    sure itlooks good though ;)

    Team Logo

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    rjw | Jun 26, 2004 06:00pm | #6

    Very nice work!

    I took the libert to tweak the first image a bit.

    I have found that that many of my digital pics can be fairly easily improved by tweaking in a photoediting app, especially when there is one major element which makes up most of the picture.

    I think the auto exposure controls get fooled when there is one main subject which dominates the pic, and often deliver an image which is too dark and too flat.

    FWIW, in the attached tweaked version, in Paint Shop Pro, first I did a freehad "edge selection" to select eveything but the window (actually, first I tweaked the whole photo which ended up with the window losing all detail and being way too bright, so I started over using the selection tool to leave the window unchanged.)

    Then I increased the "gamma." I'm not quite sure what gamma does exactly; visually it brightens (or darkens) pics, and opens up the shadow areas

    Then I tweaked the brightness, making it a bit brighter, and then the contrast, increasing that until it looked good to my eye.


    "It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."

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    1. DougU | Jun 27, 2004 03:38am | #8

      Bob

      Your picture looks good, evens out the light, for lack of the proper term. I barely figured out how to run the digital camera, so inhancement is questionable! Theres only so many things a guy can learn.  :)

      You mentioned Paint Shop, I have noticed others that use it, I may have to try it, I don't know what we have on this computer but I know its not P. Shop.

      Thanks

      Doug

  7. migraine | Jun 27, 2004 04:24am | #10

    Nice work, fom one vacuum bagger to another

    1. DougU | Jun 27, 2004 05:54am | #11

      Yea, ever since I discussed the process with you, maybe a year ago, dont remember exactly, I have been wanting to try it, now I wonder why anybody would do things like this any other way!

      I'm looking at buying one for myself, or making one, gotta read up on it.

      Thanks

      Doug

      1. migraine | Jun 27, 2004 08:49am | #12

        If you have any questions let me know, I'll try to help in any way I can

        1. DougU | Jun 27, 2004 05:11pm | #13

          Thanks, and I'm sure I will

          Doug

  8. tuffy | Jun 28, 2004 07:30am | #14

    Nice.  Really, really nice.  I really admire those wardrobes--appreciate how the interiors as nicely done as the exteriors.  The cutouts in lieu of drawer pulls is a sharp detail.

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    Sphere | Jun 28, 2004 07:58pm | #15

    beautiful..a little TOO modern for my log domicile tho' haha

    vacuuming is THE way to go..Just got my rig about two yrs. ago..after using one in other shops..what a difference..I now look for things to glue up..

     

    Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

    Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations. 

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      hubcap | Jun 30, 2004 08:39pm | #16

      very fine.

      now about this vacuum set up

      got pics?

      i find myself suffering major vacuum envy...

      nice work doug

      1. DougU | Jul 01, 2004 03:45am | #17

        I will get some, going to do some vacuum work tomarrow.

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          hubcap | Jul 01, 2004 03:51am | #18

          that would be swell

          thanks

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