Desk Install

15May06

Dsc 0001-3Yesterday I mentioned that I was starting to do some cabinetry. It’s funny how it started. At the time I had just spent some time with Chris Gleason of Gleason Woodworking, and was wanting to start doing cabinetry and custom woodworking. My friend and architect Seth had just bought a new house that he gutted and was remodeling. I mentioned to him I would love to do his cabinetry. We agreed to trade his cabinetry for my house plans. I scrambled to buy all the tools I needed and rent a small space I could put them all. Yesterday I installed the first of his cabinets, pictured to the left. It is a drafting height counter and set of drawers in his master bedroom. It almost doesn’t look it in the picture, but it stands almost 40″ tall. All the drawer fronts are European baltic birch, and the top is a natural birch with an exposed 1 1/2″ font edge. It was finished with a water based polyurethane. All the credit of design goes to Seth. As far as build time goes, I did it between working lots of overtime, but it probably took me around 8-10 actual hours of working on it. The crazy thing is how inexpensive it was to build. It was probably about $170 in materials. Not too shabby.

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9 Responses to “Desk Install”

  1. BD on May 16th, 2006 9:45 am

    Very nice! And, at a great price. Good luck with the carpentry. I hope it all works out.

  2. BD on May 16th, 2006 10:08 am

    Just curious …. how do you go about finding woods like “European Baltic Birch” for use in woodworking? They don’t seem to stock that kind of stuff in Home Depot.

  3. creede on May 16th, 2006 10:19 am

    Yeah, not a typical home depot wood, locally the best I’ve found so far is McBeth’s hardwood.

  4. Jamie on June 2nd, 2006 11:16 am

    Baltic Birch can usually be found at speciality wood shops. I just moved from the DC area to Phoenix and I found 4 places that sell 5′x5′ sheets of baltic birch. Harder to find but more useful (to me at least) is baltic birch in 4′x8′ sheets.

    The people I spoke to in Phoenix insisted that it does not exist, but trust me, it does. I did find a place that sells 4′x8′ sheets in Los Angeles and they’ll deliver anywhere in the US. I haven’t gotten a price quote, but I doubt it would be worth it since for current projects I would need a few sheets. If I can find the URL, I’ll post it.

  5. Bedroom Design on August 27th, 2006 2:56 am

    Dave

    Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future

  6. Mike on October 23rd, 2006 11:03 pm

    What is the brand of water based polyurethane you used on this project? Is it a natural finish with just the polyurethane finish. It looks great !!!

  7. creede on October 24th, 2006 7:37 am

    Mike, its a minwax I believe, water based polyurethane. Just Poly nothing else, I like the natural look.

  8. Mike on October 24th, 2006 9:20 am

    Was the poly sprayed on or what method did you use to apply it. Thanks for the info.

  9. creede on October 24th, 2006 9:45 am

    Here is the poly http://www.minwax.com/products/protective/polycrylic.cfm
    here is what I use to apply it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BZYTII/yahoo-kitchen-20/ref=nosim
    its a paint pad, disposable

    home depot carries it all.

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