Tilia Americana,
Here are a couple pics of the vanity I set last week. The client bought an antique dresser to turn it into a vanity in their new addition. The only problem was that it was not 21″ deep, so I had to add 4.375″ onto the back.
I made a filler piece for the side and profiled the edge to resemble the front edge. This is what I started with.
And the finished:
Here is a pic of the plumbing cut-out. I had a spec of the sink bowl from the granite fabricators, so I angled the filler pieces to allow room for the bowl.
And close-up:
I still have to cut the drawers to accomodate the plumbing once it is finished. I’ll get some pictures when that is finished.
Mitch
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I also had to make some rosettes and plinth blocks, and corner blocks to match the existing house trim.
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Nice Mitch. That's some fun work isn't it?
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Thanks Calvin.
I enjoy this kind of work. I had already made some rosettes and plinth blocks for this customer on a previous trim job(they are my aunt and uncle), so I already had the tooling. The vanity was great because I got to use my "just a dumb carpenter" brain.LOL
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Mitch,You did a nice job on this. Converting furniture into vanities is always interesting. I do like the look. The plinths, rosettes, etc. look great too.Did you turn and quarter the corner blocks?Happy Thanksgiving,Brian
basswood,
yup, I turned the corner blocks and quartered. I like turning replica pieces, but I need a better lathe. I also need to do a little lathe learnin, maybe Shep could give me some pointers.
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Mitch,
Very well done. Thank you for sharing.
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Hey Shep,
Thought you might like to see the turned corner blocks. Like I said to basswood, I could use some turnin' learnin'.
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Hey, Mitch-
those plinths look good! One of the projects I have on my to-do list is making a vacuum chuck for my lathe, so I can just slap on a block of wood, and turn those things pretty fast.
If you're serious about learnin' turnin', I'd suggest 2 sources. If there's a Woodcraft store near you, they have turning classes. The other is the American Association of Woodturners http://www.woodturner.org . Click on the "find a chapter" link, and see if there's one near you.
I haven't met a turner yet who who's not willing to help out someone who's willing to learn.
Edited 11/28/2009 10:34 am ET by Shep
Beautiful work! You are on the list of people to pay attention to.
Just afraid my vanity has been so abused and gotten out of control with all the retrofits not much can be done. Trying to junk it but it's such a big nasty load I can't find anybody to haul off the mess.
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pete
Nice work Mitch, very well done. Even the cope to the baseboard looks great.
I can't and won't take credit for the baseboard, the GC's trim guy did that work. Thank you for the compliments however.http://www.rdwoodworks.com
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