Stuart Ablett
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New project, I'm making a whiteboard for a client's office, the CEO of the company. He wants something bespoke, not for sale at IKEA, LOL.
Well I can do that!
Here in Japan most whiteboards are 180 cm x 90 cm (3' x 6')
He wants something larger, but the limiting factor is the stairway. The office is on the 5th floor, and the elevator is too small, so up the stairs we go!
The max size I can fit up the stairs is 230 cm x 97 cm (8'-6" x 3'-2")
I'll the whiteboard is custom made high quality enamel on steel mounted to a 6mm (1/4") hardboard. This hard board is shipped in a box/crate, and you have to be careful with it or it will bend.
Also at the size he wants I cannot assemble the whiteboard in my workshop, not could I transport it, so my plan is to make the frame of the whiteboard in six pieces, two side pices, and two pieces on the top and two on the bottom. I'll make a joint of some sort in the middle of both the top and the bottom, the bottom I will also put a chalk ledge, so that should be easy, the top, I want to make something fancy.
To start I need to rip down the big chunks of wood, but my resaw bandsaw us out of action, I thought I had another blade, but I do not, whoops, and the one I have is dull.
I've ordered a second blade, and I've sent out the dull one to be sharpened.
Ok I'll rip these boards down on the SawStop. I put my WoodWorker II thin kerf ripping blade on and well, let it rip!
That 3 hp ripped through these 52mm (2") thick Hard Maple like butter.
If you look, I think there is some curl in that board.
More later!
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Well I can do that!
Here in Japan most whiteboards are 180 cm x 90 cm (3' x 6')
He wants something larger, but the limiting factor is the stairway. The office is on the 5th floor, and the elevator is too small, so up the stairs we go!
The max size I can fit up the stairs is 230 cm x 97 cm (8'-6" x 3'-2")
I'll the whiteboard is custom made high quality enamel on steel mounted to a 6mm (1/4") hardboard. This hard board is shipped in a box/crate, and you have to be careful with it or it will bend.
Also at the size he wants I cannot assemble the whiteboard in my workshop, not could I transport it, so my plan is to make the frame of the whiteboard in six pieces, two side pices, and two pieces on the top and two on the bottom. I'll make a joint of some sort in the middle of both the top and the bottom, the bottom I will also put a chalk ledge, so that should be easy, the top, I want to make something fancy.
To start I need to rip down the big chunks of wood, but my resaw bandsaw us out of action, I thought I had another blade, but I do not, whoops, and the one I have is dull.
I've ordered a second blade, and I've sent out the dull one to be sharpened.
Ok I'll rip these boards down on the SawStop. I put my WoodWorker II thin kerf ripping blade on and well, let it rip!
That 3 hp ripped through these 52mm (2") thick Hard Maple like butter.
If you look, I think there is some curl in that board.
More later!
Sent from my WAS-LX2J using Tapatalk