I had never before started a project with K-dried rough cut lumber. I also had very little experience with Oak. I'll not add the pics of the unplaned 4/4 and 6/4.
These are before and after pictures of a small project I have pretty much completed the last 1.5 months.
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Looks like your coming along quite well there. What will you be doing with the floors? Are they hardwood flooring that is down now? Refinish? Or new floor?
Swamp Donkey.
She is having the 104 year old floor refinished by another contractor. The living room of this house was nearly destroyed by a fire last year. When they replaced the lathe and plaster on one of the walls there was a name and 1906 written inside. The floor is in reasonably good shape even tho. There are some huge gaps in it.
I had just contracted to make the base board, door and window trim to be as close as possible to the original woodwork. After I had finished that she asked me to build the bookcase and mantle, then the bench seat.
Ole CB, you should brag.........looks good. 8) Your happy and the owner is happy. Awesome. 8)
Is the lumber some you produced yourself?
Lookin real good, and thanks for posting the pics. :)
fishpharmer,
Thank You!!
I do wish I had produced the lumber, all I have cut todate is very little walnut and she wanted Oak same as it was before. I bought the wood from a large local saw mill. It is the same outfit that bought the logs from my place.
We've kind of parked our toy mill for the winter.
I am totally digging that window bench. Nicely done!
NICE JOB!
Looks great. Satisfying kind of work. I had to reproduce some trim recently. Did you partially hollow the backside of your trim pieces? I'm sure there's a formal name for it on trim, but I don't know it. If you did do that, how did YOU do it?
Might be referred to as "relieved".
Quote from: Brad_bb on February 15, 2010, 11:32:58 PM
Looks great. Satisfying kind of work. I had to reproduce some trim recently. Did you partially hollow the backside of your trim pieces? I'm sure there's a formal name for it on trim, but I don't know it. If you did do that, how did YOU do it?
Brad,
No, I didn't have access to a molder. I did cut 4 kerfs into the back of the trim to help reduce any possible cupping. I think Benthere is right, it's called a relieved
Thanks all for your comments.. it means a lot more when someone with experience with wood likes it. My girl friend just keeps saying, "good hands!!"
Nothin'better than building with wood you've sawn! Real nice job! 8)
Ah yes, relieved. Was at a loss for words. I thought it was more there to clear and uneven wall surface. I have use a router, and the table saw with dado blade to relieve. I was just trying to see if there was a better way without buying a molding machine. It's takes awhile via my method, would rather be able to do it in one or two passes, rather than 4 or more.
CB, in the very first picture, it looks like the finished wall stands out from the door frame by at least 1/2 of an inch. I have that problem with most of the door in my house, due to firring in the walls.
How did you get the edge of the door frame flush with the finished wall so that the trim looks good like that? I was thinking I will have to rip down a bunch of 1/2" strips of pine, tack them onto the door frame, then put the trim on. Is that what you did? Did you end up moving the door? Something else?
Your work looks nice. I wasn't kidding about that window bench. We have a similar bench area that I am building trap doors into the top of, so we can use the storage space. I was going to do some sort of tongue n' groove top but yours looks really nice!
Great job! I don't think my wife should see that, she would ask why our trim doesn't look that good.
WarBird,
Yes I did rip some 5/8" strips to fill in at the door. In this old house the walls are not straight vertically or on the horizontal.. I have found that if I cut back the sheetrock just inside where the edge of the trim is, I can keep the trim from canting out to much and get a good line on the wall edges. That will show at the head piece some. Still it looks better than having from 1/8" to 3/4" rips cut with a skill saw. (I can make a drawing for you if you don't follow. Specially since that's clear as mud to me even). On that door alone, I cut 3 different rips and still had to cut the rock face off at the top and from 3' up on both sides.
Sparty... U an SwampDonkey have been breathin to much... er swamp gas.. I am not, in either of your and most the rest of the forums league!!
Um, yeah. A drawing would be good, if'n you have the time. I *think* I'm following you but am not sure.
Warbird,
See if this works for you.
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I cannot read any of the words. Just to clarify, did you attach the 5/8" strips you'd ripped to the door jamb to fir it out even with the wall? And then you attached the trim pieces on that?
WarBird,
Yes, I nailed the 5/8 to the jamb and placed the trim over that.
Awesome. I understand perfectly then. Thank you!
For grins I'm adding a pic of a fire escape I built in 2006 for a 6 plex. Before anyone says it is not according to codes.. You should see what was there before. I also have pics of that!!! ;)
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