rotary gun rack

[Dave Balderstone]

Heh. Caught.

The jewelry box I managed to finish for SWMBO this year (pics to come) started out by looking through a couple of Doug Stowes' books, then evolved and morphed in my mind for a while as I looked for wood (cherry and maple as it turned out, although the maple came later, when I decided to put a drawer in the thing) then planed, glued up some for a lid, pondered some more... made a mistake cutting one piece so revised again... Etc.

I guess I find working from plans, well, *boring*. I don't want to make something that's been made before by somebody else. I like looking at plans to get ideas about how things have been done before and learn from history, but that's really the extent of my desired involvement with them.

[Mark & Juanita]

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Very nice projects. I'd say more than fairly decent.

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Thanks.

Pete C.

[Tom Watson]

I own a Springfield 1903 A3, a Winchester Model 12, an oldish Ruger

10-22 and a Colt 1911.

If I put them on something that spun around it would confuse the hell out of me.

Y'all oughta decide what you like to shoot and put them in a decent gun case.

with a lock

Regards,

Tom Watson

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[Chilla]

Yeah I'm a JOT as well, not by design, but through necessity. I forge, cast, mould, make all the tooling and equipment etc. etc. etc.

I am a Cutler by choice, but do a lot of other things as necessary or as the wind takes me :-)

Regards Charles

[Mark & Juanita]

I guess I am more pragmatic in this regard (at least right now). My desire is to create things of utility as well as well-crafted and good looking. Thus, if I need something, for example an entertainment center, and can find a plan that has all the details worked out that fits my (and of course the Overlord's) esthetics, then I will use the plans. I may make modifications; for example, for the entertainment center, I replaced the somewhat simplistic lower shelves with drawers in order to assure reduction in future clutter, but for the most part, the plans are a means of laying out the design without having to spend the design time to get there.

On the other hand, if I can't find plans for something that is going to meet my needs, then I will design my own and draft up my own plans. I do go to the extent of making drawings to make sure that the dimensions and proportions look right and to identify any issues that might occur in construction. I do not draft in the joinery methods or dimensions for the joinery -- that I do when building the piece; I don't have the patience to do 3D CAD mortise & tenons. Once the drawing is complete, I will start the real construction. This is where your method does have its advantage -- there are times when, shall we say, adjustments need to be made because a mortise was cut in the wrong location or a rail was interchanged with a different rail of different dimension. While the end piece comes out looking fine, there is still that paper trail showing that it wasn't exactly as designed. (It was an engineering change -- yeah, that's the ticket).

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[Bill in Detroit]

I sometimes use plans. It's nice to have a fully scaled drawing to note engineering changes on.

Bill

[Bill in Detroit]

[Patriarch]

I used to work from plans. I was new.

Took a class at the Adult Ed woodshop, and decided to make the clock from the Fine Woodworking magazine, becasue it was classier than the the one that they were using, maybe ten years old, and from 'another magazine'.

Great looking cherry wood, including some really neat stuff that I resawed from a nice piece that a friend gave me. I got to a particular place in the process, and got stuck. It didn't work the way it was drawn or measured. So I started again with some nice figured maple. And got stuck again, in pretty much the same place.

Some folks can't immediately see where the plans were wrong.

A trip to Woodcraft, and four tools later, I had three ways of fixing the problem. Now there are two Shaker style clocks with reproduction period works in them, in my small den.

And I seldom work from plans any more.

Some things I can screw up on my own just fine, thank you very much.

Patriarch

[Andy Dingley]

Please, rather better than that I hope! It's a good while since I needed to tar a piece of good cabinetmaking.

[J T]

Tue, Dec 26, 2006, 11:02pm (EST-1) [e-mail] (Patriarch) doth sayeth: Now there are two Shaker style clocks with reproduction period works in them, in my small den.

Yeah, but then you usually wind up with one clock 24 hours faster than the other one.

JOAT It's not hard, if you get your mind right.

- Granny Weatherwax