I got fed up with the pile stuff that always seems to cover any flat workspace in my office, so decided to see if I could organise it a bit. Came up with this:
Very nice.
They are the kind of thing my wife dreams about.
Nice!
Though labeling the handles accurately will be a challenge:-)
Faced with a similar pile of timewarp, I went all IKEA:
At the time, I had access to NC lacquer spraying kit. Just a quick spray on each surface, dry, sand, spray final coat. Those boxes have a lot of surfaces, some mutually exclude each other from spraying at the same time. And its hand-sand because of the fiddly corners on the inside. I may have even used a cabinet scraper, it's easier to get all the way into the inside edges. In hindsight, "just do the fronts" would have been enough, seeing that the lot ended up in a shed...
Thomas Prufer
Nice. Hope the wife does the dusting.
+1 - hugely impressive!
I've 4 of those from what must be 30 years ago. Notably, they don't do the one with the drawer size perfect for the wallets you used to get 35mm photo prints in.
I did finish mine with something - can't remember now but looks like some sort of varnish. Haven't touched them since. Some of the drawers are/always have been a bit sticky - any top tips to 'lubricate'?
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Amazing detail. Working/finishing softwood at those dimensions is never easy.
I suspect you are going to regret placing the drawers at desk level or keep an incredibly tidy work surface:-)
Old school is to rub the mating surfaces with a candle... Easier is a tin of liberon lubricating wax, which is a wax in a high VoC liquid form. Easy to apply, and once the VoCs have boiled off leaves a nice even coat.
Yup if I was doing hardwood for the boxes I would have done it all 1/4", but that felt like it was too likely to move or flex, so I went about
3/8" (I had to plane the bottom of my add on finger joint jig to gain an extra few mm of cut depth, since the fingers need to be at least as deep as the board thickness)Yup possibly - I deliberately kept a reasonably thick bottom shelf, and a wider "lip" to the front to mitigate that a bit, but could not see anyway of re-ordering things since I want test equipment etc at eye level and where wires etc can drop down to the desk.
Yup, not going to happen! However I am hoping that having storage for some of the crap that was on the desk will at least make it easier to find some space on it.
I had a quick try by creating a sheet of custom "labels" in word (which ultimately just produces a table).
That seemed to work ok. With a bit of fineness, it should be possible to have a sheet one just guillotines up into individual labels.
Yup I saw those. TBH it would probably cost as much in materials to make them as just buy them!
Nothing stopping you adding additional drawer fronts onto them for a more classic look.
They only seem to have the one configuration at the mo, which is a shame.
That is easy:-)
Finding the n categories where n = NumberOfDrawers, also that *all* your now and future items in the category will not overfill any one drawer, nor leave too much space unused, further the text should fit the space on the label without undue squeezing, and also not have "dead" categories ("RS232 gender changers"), nor one that will instantly overfill ("spare USB cables") -- now that's a challenge.
I left mine unlabeled, and look through all of them for whatever you need, thus refreshing the mental cache of where the bits are. (Works, though the system breaks when I put something where "I am more likely to find it"...)
Thomas Prufer
Shoddy workmanship, old boy. Chop the whole bloody thing up for firewood.
Nice job, done well.
Many thanks - I'll try some liberon.
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