Kufenschrank

Hello. Some small progress made today on the cabon. I found the mirror that goes inside the door and made and mounted the brackets that will hold it in place. The mirror will have to be removed for storage as its thickness was not accounted for when designing the case. As such the brackets are not as wide as the mirror so that they will fit in between the side panels when it is folded up.

And this is my first post from my phone!

snow today

good weather for oogling gardening catalogs...

For the solstice...

a flood.  Not in the garden, but to it.  It had gone down by late on the 21st.

and tonight,  snow.

a white christmas!

peace be with you

Curse you, Jere Gettle!

So yesterday the Baker Creek rare seeds catalog arrives in the mail. 

Drat!  I don't have time for that now, there's still so much holiday things, and this is my woodworking time...  I can't be set off dreaming about my garden yet, that's what february is for!

snow today.

made some progress on the woodworking Kufenschrank.  Changed the design slightly to better get the needed parts from the available material, cut most of the pieces.  Assembled two side panels tonight.

Woodworking

What with the frost and all, there's not much to say about the garden.  So i'm turning to other things, like furniture for pennsic.  I'll be making a kufenschrank, which is a footed cabinet.  Many thanks to Marijin from http://thomasguild.blogspot.com for excellent documentation of surviving cabons in several museums in Germany, and which provided the inspiration for the design you see here.

Here are some of the initial sketches

I wasn't quite sure how the feet were going to work, seeing as I need the whole thing to fold up flat for storage and transportation.  There will be a cleat on the inside of the front and back to suppor the floor, and this can run the full width of the cabinet, because the sides of the cabinet will not come all the way down.  The feet will have notches to fit the bottom corners of the front and back panels, and the side panels will sit directly on the feet, or in German, Kufen.

Next we have the scale drawing:

on 1/4" graph paper (my favorite stuff for this kind of thing) with one square equalling two inches.  A front view, and also a horizontal cross-section.  The side panels and back panel are of little interest as they will be mostly hidden, and not a very period design anyway.  The squared-off 8 in the previous sketch is sufficient to remind me of how they will be assembled.  From the scaled drawing we are able to make the parts list:

This details each part, how big it is, and how many of each are needed.  Sometimes it helps to have a cutting diagram, to determine how to get the best use of your stock so you don't waste a lot of wood.  I don't have one of those for this project yet...

Snow

well the blog is at 500 hits, thank you all for reading.

We got snow last night.  There wasn't much here by the morning, but further south there was quite a bit, driving to work was a winter wonderland.  A beautiful commute.  Likely be sick of it by february, but it's been a while and it was awesome.