Furniture Archives - G00

Wall easel, baby

istimat — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:22:16 +0000

I’ve been wanting an easel for a long time now, but due to lack of space I haven’t been able to get one.

Having some left over plywood from another project, I went ahead and built a wall easel. With french cleats, mind you.

The build

Routing a 45 degree angle for the french cleats

Used the router for the 45 degree chamfer and a pocket to hold the canvas

Found some drawer pulls and used them to tighten the sliding portion of the canvas clamp

Installed

Here it is installed. The beauty of it is that all the modules like the shelves and the easel itself can be moved left and right or even exchanged.
Might need to add another horizontal rail and a shelf for reference material or the iPad.

Here’s that sweet cleat action you’re here for.

Check out my instagram for more process shots: https://www.instagram.com/istimat.g00/

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Mini wi-fi rack

istimat — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:40:02 +0000

After 4 years of putting up with a mess of cables from my modem, router and RaspberryPi Samba server, I got fed up and built a mini rack.

Here are some pics of putting it together.

And fully loaded:

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V6 Engine-Block Coffee Table

istimat — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:03:24 +0000

Dmitry (we share the workshop) always wanted an engine block coffee table. After buying a second-hand rusty Ford V6 engine block, he sent it off to sand-blasting, then powder coated it red. He also had some VW Scirocco pistons and connecting rods and those were powder coated black.

The connecting rods and their screws were epoxied into the engine block. Not having a welder is a pain. He also had the idea of somehow attaching a fan he had laying around so that it would look more like a functional engine. A “couple” of tries later, and I had a laser cut bearing mount for the fan.

Here’s a GIF of it in action:

The next feature on the list was some interesting lighting. Luckily we found a cheap remote LED controller with a lot of patterns and brightness settings. It’s the small shrink tubed thing in the upper part of the picture on the left. We used a really small 12V power supply from the LED section in the hardware store.

To get a nice glowing effect from the cylinders I laser cut some MDF discs to fit inside, and glued some LED strip to them. Then glued some spacers to the MDF and over those I placed (not glued, so removable) white acrylic to disperse the light.

And here’s a GIF of the lighting in action:

And some more pictures in its final position:

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