Ah one of the beautiful features of SketchUp is generating templates of the components that have been modeled, we print the templates and affix them with some spray contact cement to some 3/16″ baltic birch plywood. Baltic birch plywood is easily shaped, doesn’t contain nasty voids like other forms of plywood and the baltic birch […]
The newest project LaPlaca Woodworks will be undertaking is a pair of Chippendale five drawer chests, these chests were featured in the book The New Fine Points of Furniture Early America by Albert Sack. As our usual process at LaPlaca Woodworks we have modeled the piece in SketchUp the image below is a rendition by […]
Actually the most important step in the finishing process, is to come up with the entire finishing ‘schedule’ (or recipe) that one is going to use to finish the piece. This schedule should be performed on scrap pieces from the project (ideally), or at the very least on scrap pieces from the same species. For […]