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Robert Horky

Robert Horky

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She loves her Legos. Needed a cabinet, that matches the bedroom set I made her, to display them. Looks like I should have gone larger. Maybe another one to be made soon???
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White oak and white oak ply. Varathane grey stain. Satin poly topcoat. Made doors for bottom center section (that is why there is no arch there) but not needed, saved for future use. Top case comes off bottom cabinet. 4' wide by ~6.5' tall.

I also CNC carved the 4 school insignias
 
Fantastic. What are the "ribs" on the sides where the shelves ride? Just curious about the construction. Always great to make a piece for family. I am a klutz at so many things I enjoy doing something for loved one that I can do.
 
glenn bradley said:
Fantastic. What are the "ribs" on the sides where the shelves ride? Just curious about the construction. Always great to make a piece for family. I am a klutz at so many things I enjoy doing something for loved one that I can do.
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Hopefully, this will show it better. Construction is frame and panel .. solid wood frames, plywood panels. The 'ribs' are the frames, if I understand the question correctly. If not, just let me know.
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lego is an expensive hobby....extremely expensive. I think my son has spent more money on lego sets and lucite display cabinets then my house is worth. and he isnt slowing down.....and he keeps a huge supply of smaller sets for every single time one of the kiddies visit him.....they never want to go home, they cry to their parents, they want to stay....video games in 3 rooms, movie room, and legos to the moon.......im hoping one day my son grows up. hes 44 years old and im not sure at times if Im proud of him or embarrassed.
thats a great looking cabinet....
 
Great work, Robert! Might as well start planning to build more Lego display/storage furniture. As others have said, Lego collections tend to grow.

Here's a thrift store dresser that my BIL refinished and gave to his daughter-in-law. (I made the drawer pulls for him.) She's got the Lego bug bad...there's a whole "Lego Area" in the living room, and a bunch more displayed in the den.

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That cabinet is a thing of beauty. I wish I had been smart enough to think of doing something like that for my son's model rockets and Legos.

Storing his model rockets was always a pain because vertically they were easily knocked over by a breeze and that could damage the fins. Horizontally and somebody will pile something on them without thinking. Don't ask me how I know that. Ended up buying some cheap trunks that were long enough for most of the rockets and stored them that way. Our solution to the Legos was to use empty ice cream cone boxes that we got from, where else, an ice cream parlor....sturdy and stacked nicely. Not nearly as classy as yours Robert.

P.S. I will not be sharing pictures of your nephew's Lego creations. My son's ego will be sorely damaged. He thought he was good at Legos.
 
Model rockets or Estes that shoot with engines
That was a big hobby of mine when I was 10 through teens
Launch pads with electronic igniter
I loved that stuff
I grew up in Howard beach queens New York and there was nothing but weeds for 1/2 mile to water is be chasing down the rockets when they'd land sometimes a mile or so from my house
 
allen levine said:
Model rockets or Estes that shoot with engines
That was a big hobby of mine when I was 10 through teens
Launch pads with electronic igniter
I loved that stuff
I grew up in Howard beach queens New York and there was nothing but weeds for 1/2 mile to water is be chasing down the rockets when they'd land sometimes a mile or so from my house
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Estes rockets that fired high in the sky.

I also loved shooting those babies off. We had access to a large college campus athletic field which provided enough room so that we didn't lose too many rockets. There were trees nearby enough to reach out and grab one or two when they parachuted too close.

Built my son a range box which held the launch pad and controls, engines, parachutes and other paraphernalia. It was great fun. He learned some trigonometry firing off rockets by measuring the angle from a specific point that was measured from the launch pad when the rocket first deployed its chute. Good stuff for a kid to see the practical use of mathematics. Must have worked because he is a mathematician and computer scientist these days.

We still have most of the rockets stored in those trunks. The range box is in his old closet.

Allen did you ever watch the movie October Sky? It is a true story about some kids in West Virginia who built rockets from scratch and made their own fuel back in the 1950's. They ended up winning the National Science Foundation science fair and earned scholarships to college. The main kid went to work for NASA after college and helped to train astronauts. His name was Homer Hickam. He wrote a series of books recounting those experiences that are a good inspirational read for young people. In addition to his memoirs he also wrote quite a few novels about space that are also good reads. My son loved to read those stories since they were written by someone who actually did those things. Maybe your grands would be interested when they get older.
 
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I had several tackle boxes filled with the different engines and parts
The only rockets we lost were the ones that drifted over the belt parkway and into Brooklyn
Our parents would not let us cross a 6 lane highway of course and going to exit to other side was a 5 mile trek
 
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