Comments on: Where the Good Books Go? http://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jay Oyster http://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com/made-by-hand/project-4#comment-19 Jay Oyster Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:50:17 +0000 http://s80174.gridserver.com/unplugged/?page_id=492#comment-19 Hi. I just wanted to share my admiration for this project. My wife purchased your book for me as a Father's Day gift, and I read and enjoyed it immensely. I was a bit surprised that the tone of the chapter about the bookshelf implied that this is one of your less favorite projects completed for the book. Honestly, this is my favorite piece. So much so that I've taken many of the design ideas and worked them into a cabinet design I'm doing for my wife. It will ostensibly be a very large jewelry cabinet, but it will be large enough that I refuse to call it a 'jewelry box'. It's just a cabinet. It will use your front door design, just slightly re-dimensioned, and the cabinet geometry is similar. I was going to do a top similar to yours, but in cherry rather than walnut. But after looking at the joinery in Sketchup for about a week, I finally broke down and changed the 'sides through the top into a different wood species' design. I'm just not brave enough. I suspect the sycamore (the case and doors will be in quarter-sawn sycamore) will end up cracking the cherry top if I do it that way. So I ended up adding a 'sub-top', also made out of sycamore, that I will then screw through up into the cherry top, with enough play in the screw holes to allow for different expansion of the sycamore and cherry. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all of the design ideas on this, and I look forward to your next book. Hi. I just wanted to share my admiration for this project. My wife purchased your book for me as a Father’s Day gift, and I read and enjoyed it immensely. I was a bit surprised that the tone of the chapter about the bookshelf implied that this is one of your less favorite projects completed for the book. Honestly, this is my favorite piece. So much so that I’ve taken many of the design ideas and worked them into a cabinet design I’m doing for my wife. It will ostensibly be a very large jewelry cabinet, but it will be large enough that I refuse to call it a ‘jewelry box’. It’s just a cabinet. It will use your front door design, just slightly re-dimensioned, and the cabinet geometry is similar. I was going to do a top similar to yours, but in cherry rather than walnut. But after looking at the joinery in Sketchup for about a week, I finally broke down and changed the ‘sides through the top into a different wood species’ design. I’m just not brave enough. I suspect the sycamore (the case and doors will be in quarter-sawn sycamore) will end up cracking the cherry top if I do it that way. So I ended up adding a ‘sub-top’, also made out of sycamore, that I will then screw through up into the cherry top, with enough play in the screw holes to allow for different expansion of the sycamore and cherry.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all of the design ideas on this, and I look forward to your next book.

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