What's inside ?

Just for fun and this post is not miniature related.

Today I made a little mahogany box, approx. 5cm * 5cm *5cm.

Can you guess what's inside ?

Well. I made a similar one from perspex with same contents.

Yes. It is two small 3D mazes.

Here is ihe insides before assembling.

And side by side without cover plates.

Have fun
Niels

Little helpers

Most of my furniture with drawers have small holes on the backside. Here I will show you why!

For opening of the drawers.

This is a chiffoniere (typical danish high chest with 7 drawers from about 1850).  The chiffoniere and similar pieces of furniture was not equipped with handles for pulling the drawers. The drawers was pulled with the locking key.

Here is selection of  "push-sticks" I have made. ( a simple toothpick can be used too :-)

From left to right. Quick and dirty one; a bead and a toothpick cut to length. Next is for the box with the three danish pieces. Then for the 1/24 and 1/48 scale high boys.

Have fun
Niels

Three little boxes

Can be seen in june at the IGMA Guild School.

Have fun
Niels

Four small brass turnings left

Finial for the 1/48 highboy.

Tomorrow the last four brass knobs will be turned.

 

 Drawer number 5 of the small highboy flew to the floor yesterday and was then run over by my workshop chair. (top is 1,2 and 3, then down 4,5,6,7 and 8, bottom row is 9,10 and 11) So a new drawer had to be made from scatch. If you look carefully you can see that the bookmatch centerline is not perfect :-(

Another view.

And then next week-end will be the great workshop clean up day.

Happy Easter
Niels

A few days off

Spend a few days at a very interesting place: Prora at Rügen.

This is the original high-boy as illustrated in the book

And my copy in 1/24 scale.

I just need the courage to finish the last two drawers.

Happy Easter
Niels

Cutoffs. And a little about finish.

Today I took the great step and sawed off the large woodblocks from the legs.

And a little about what I use for finish.

At first I sand the piece with several grades of sandpaper for a smooth and even finish of the wood.

Then I apply 2 coats of pore-filler. I use a product from Graupner called GlatFix. It is a cellulose-based porefiller and it can be coloured with spitit bases stains if necessery. A light sanding between the layers.

Then I apply two or thre layers of model-aeroplane dope with sanding in between. Aeroplane-dope again is a cellulosebased laquer. It stinks but I like the resulting finish.

. I have tried cellulose-based laquer from our local paint-store but even when thinned it is not as good as the dope.
When the dope has dried about 24 hours I all faces with grade 000 steelwool.

Status of today.

What is missing? Two finials, Drawer handles. two rlarge osettes. Lots of time until my deadline so maybe I should start another 1/24 project :-)

Have fun
Niels

Top molding

Like on the 1/48 high-boy the top molding is milled with a lot of parallel cuts using a 0.1mm v-cutter. It takes about 1½hour for the cnc-machine to finish the job so no mistakes in the mounting.

End-view of molding

To ensure square mitering I use the sandingdrum setup.

With that setup very little material can be removed.


And the molding in place

The camera ran out of battery :-(

/Niels