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Ross Leidy
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Flip-Top Cart #4: Completing the Rotating Platform
Ross Leidy
While I was working out the details for how to mount the casters, I spent some time finishing up the rotating platform. I made the fixed and slidi...
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Flip-Top Cart #3: Proof of Concept
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With the CNC cart completed, I could get back to working on the flip cart. I had purposely delayed work on it because I was struggling with part o...
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Danish Cord Bench #6: Weaving the Weft and Done
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The weft weaving starts in one corner, attaching the a doubled cord (roughly 120ft length folded in half) at its center onto a side rail. This is ...
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Danish Cord Bench #5: Weaving the Warp
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Once I completed the final sanding and prepped according to instructions, I applied Rubio's Monocote Pure to the frame. It was my first experience...
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Danish Cord Bench #4: Shaping, Sanding, and Glue-up
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The leg edges and leg stretchers received a fingernail profile. This was done with a 1/2" radius roundover bit in the router table. Note my slig...
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Danish Cord Bench #3: Mortises and Slots
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With all the pieces cut to shape, I moved on to cutting the mortises and slots, which I did with the help of a couple jigs. They were all cut with...
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Danish Cord Bench #2: Router Templates and Parts Cutout
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The next step was to create a set of router templates for some of the pieces. My original plan was to print paper templates, glue them to MDF, and...
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Danish Cord Bench #1: Design
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My wife and I have some friends who are nearing the end of a house renovation, and I wanted to make them something as a house-warming gift. I deci...
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Flip-Top Cart #2: Onshape practice
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Like some others out there, I've started learning how to use Onshape. I'm still coming up-to-speed, but I really like its parametric modeling - b...
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Flip-Top Cart #1: Some initial engineering
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This is something that I've wanted to build for a while for my small shop, but never got around to it until now. I kind of forced my own hand by f...
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Cat Climbing Structure #11: How do you gift-wrap a cat tree?
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It turns out that two bicycle gift bags will work. Tell me this doesn't look like a giant headless matron in an evening gown. A masterful decepti...
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Cat Climbing Structure #10: Climbing/Nesting Modules
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For the shapes of the climbing modules, I took inspiration from the simple circle-triangle-square shapes that were repeated throughout the 2021 Net...
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