That's right, BAMBOO!
Bogdon called me a few weeks back and asked if I would be willing to build him a stand out of bamboo. Having never worked with the material I jumped at the opportunity, little did I know what I was getting myself into.
As I understand it Bogdon just but put bamboo floors in his house and loved the look so much that he wanted a stand to match the floor. His idea was to take the wood flooring and snap it together and skin a stand with it. My thoughts were that it would look too much like someone taking wood flooring and using it to build a stand. So my idea was to cut off the mortise and tenon joinery and edge glue all the planks together so that the wood wouldn't look like flooring it would look like solid pieces of wood. Again I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. the flooring had a durable finish that had to be removed so that the edge gluing would look seamless, however because the finish was so durable as well as bamboo being such a hard wood removing and resurfacing the wood proved to be a difficult task for my little planer.
I figured that I could just run the planks through my planer and that would be that, but it wasn't that simple, the planer blades dulled out in no time. My dewalt planer uses throw away blades that can't be sharpened so the thought that I will be going through a lot of blades is sad.
Anyway enough of me complaining, Bogdon, wanted a very clean look on the outside as well as the inside, he drew inspiration from a thread on reefcentral and wanted a stand similar to Kikireef's. One thing he wanted was a compartment on the side of the stand separate from the sump area to house his calcium reactor and apex. I drew up a plan and we went from there ironing out the details until he and Crystal was happy. Then I got started with the framing.
Top and the bottom
cut off the mortise and tenon joinery and edge glued 4 planks
More gluing
This is the left side where the separate compartment is going to be
Glued melamine down and started to add the studs
A lot of intricate joinery throughout
and this is where I stopped for the day
I had to place the finished piece over to see how it fits.
Bogdon called me a few weeks back and asked if I would be willing to build him a stand out of bamboo. Having never worked with the material I jumped at the opportunity, little did I know what I was getting myself into.
As I understand it Bogdon just but put bamboo floors in his house and loved the look so much that he wanted a stand to match the floor. His idea was to take the wood flooring and snap it together and skin a stand with it. My thoughts were that it would look too much like someone taking wood flooring and using it to build a stand. So my idea was to cut off the mortise and tenon joinery and edge glue all the planks together so that the wood wouldn't look like flooring it would look like solid pieces of wood. Again I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. the flooring had a durable finish that had to be removed so that the edge gluing would look seamless, however because the finish was so durable as well as bamboo being such a hard wood removing and resurfacing the wood proved to be a difficult task for my little planer.
I figured that I could just run the planks through my planer and that would be that, but it wasn't that simple, the planer blades dulled out in no time. My dewalt planer uses throw away blades that can't be sharpened so the thought that I will be going through a lot of blades is sad.
Anyway enough of me complaining, Bogdon, wanted a very clean look on the outside as well as the inside, he drew inspiration from a thread on reefcentral and wanted a stand similar to Kikireef's. One thing he wanted was a compartment on the side of the stand separate from the sump area to house his calcium reactor and apex. I drew up a plan and we went from there ironing out the details until he and Crystal was happy. Then I got started with the framing.
Top and the bottom
cut off the mortise and tenon joinery and edge glued 4 planks
More gluing
This is the left side where the separate compartment is going to be
Glued melamine down and started to add the studs
A lot of intricate joinery throughout
and this is where I stopped for the day
I had to place the finished piece over to see how it fits.
Last edited by sisterlimonpot on Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:15 am; edited 2 times in total
Besides, the top bamboo strip covers up that entire area, so you won't be able to see the extra support.[/quote]
