Sunday, May 10, 2015

Vanity In The Short Rows

After the disaster of the composite top I dug out some Walnut and glued it up. Out of the clamps it is flat with no wind so clean up shouldn't take long.

I finally broke down and let a Festool track saw of my very own follow me home from the wood store. I'd been borrowing their demo unit for a couple of years every time I needed to cut a table top to size....It was time to step up and do the right thing.

Here is the Walnut slab on my bench with the vanity base in the background:


I don't know if I had mentioned before that I decided on metal runners because it is going into a bathroom. They are ugly as granny panties but they work well no matter what the case does. 

The bath is painted and tiled, the vessel sink is waiting in a box, all that is left is to fit the slab and make a couple of drawer fronts. It will be good to call this one finished.

As posted yesterday I received a new Bad Axe saw in the mail. I had thought my saw collection was complete until Mark came up with this one. It hits all my dovetail "log into PayPal" hot spots, a narrow 12" saw plate, with an aggressive tooth filing, a open tote, and just enough bling to put a smile on my face with every glance.  

Anyway here is its glamor shot:


It saws true and fast. I expect the other dovetail saws will gather a lot of dust.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Ken,
    any particular reason why the height of ther drawer boxes are smaller then the openings?

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  2. Ralph,

    It just looks that way because of the angle, I have 20-30mm to play with between the top of the drawer boxes and the upper rail.

    A bath re-do is kinda like a road trip, the fun ends with 100 miles still to go. I stopped having fun when the composite top didn't work. Oh well there is not much left to do, just finish the vanity and do the plumbing.

    ken

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