Studio Notes: September 26th, 2021

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I'm Brandon Woods, and this is Studio Notes for Sunday, September 26th, 2021. I actually don't have a lot to say this morning. Usually I'm just so long winded, but I'm in my studio and I am ready to get to work. But I had one thought yesterday that maybe what would be more interesting to all of you, rather than just hearing me talk about things that I'm doing, is to actually see some of the things that I'm doing. I know, who would’ve thunk it? So I'm going to have my phone set up in my workshop today. The iPhone 12 pro is IP68, which means that it has very good dust resistance. My Canon R5 is decidedly lower than that. So I'm not going to be using my Canon R5 out there unless I am just bringing it out for just a minute. But I'll be recording on my phone. I'm still using a lav. mic, though, so you'll be able to hear me. And let's see how many of these shaped panels I can get constructed today. All right.

OK, so yesterday I cut down a lot of the leftover pieces from building my panels, my dimensional panels and turned them into just standard straight square. One and... 1.618 will be the total height of the board plus the panel. I decided to do that one because I'm still kind of really nerding out over the golden ratio and also because I have a lot of boards already made that will fit the shape the panels. So in order to give myself the most flexibility and also to work with the depth that I've found, it's a really good depth. I decided to cut these down to boards like these. And now I'm going to try a timeline. We'll see how this goes. And I'm going to cut down some of these boards on here with my miter saw to actually fit those shaped panels. And hopefully I'll be able to get a lot of those constructed today. Let's see how it goes.

OK, well, leave it to me to get ahead of myself. One thing that I had to do before I am able to actually cut these miters is that I have to go through and actually measure them. So I have three panels here where I have gone through and figured out the different lenths and and all the angles of the corners and so I'm starting with these, and then I'll go through after I finish these and I will measure out more. And it'll just be a process where I'll measure, cut, measure, cut, measure, cut, measure, cut, measure, cut.

OK, so here is my first one built. One down, thirty seven to go. I don't actually know how many. And so step one now for this panel after starting it or after cutting all the miters, is to, as with my video from the...21st, maybe? The extra long video that made the other day. I'm going to flood the ends of these boards. And then after that, I will put them together and shellac the front and back of this panel and the cradle here as well, and then glue it all together and that'll be one panel done. I'll just have to route it down from there and then prime it and paint it and then varnish it and document it. So lots to do for just one. And that's that's kind of the standard standard things that I do for, for each piece. It's a lot. So now I'm going to flood the ends of this one and just start on the next.

OK, so, so. I'm just going to be headless for a minute, and I'm just going to do this live instead of do a slow motion version of this. See that? It's probably about two percent milk. In terms of consistency. Viscosity.All right. After the first round it usually helps they go through with a paper towel. Just make sure that the ends, that it's not poolling on the end of the board. But. It's already soaked through so much that I can go through and do a second round. The ends of these boards are really thirsty. And here we have our flooded ends on our boards, so I'm going to give these 15, 20, 30 minutes to dry and then I can put wood glue on there in its full viscosity. And I can clamp this frame together.

OK, so the ends of these boards have been flooded and they are ready for glue and a clamp. No, usually whenever I'm clamping my boards together, I use Collins clamps, the little spring clamps I talked about in my video the other day. These guys. And this will hold a joint together really well. But I have taken a liking recently to these Betsy. Bessey B-e-s-s-e-y belt clamp instead. I don't think that's the word for it, but close enough. So whenever I'm putting the glue on here, so I've got, squirted out, some of the glue. I like these little brushes. These are also by Titebond. They they're one of those products that works really, really well, but is still almost frustratingly, it's like it's too expensive for what you get. It's almost, almost not quite worth the price, but it works so well that this is this is the second one that I'm on now. Because the easiest way to clean this is just to let the glue dry on them and then just peel it off. But these are really good for getting a nice even coat of glue on board. And that's what you want. You don't want any gaps, even though as it squeezes it together it should fill those gaps, theoretically. But, you want it to just be a nice even coating. You don't want too much, you don't really want too little. Well, you certainly don't want too little, but you don't want too much either because then it's just going to be a mess everywhere. With my dimensional panels. I'll usually do this on a sheet of glass so that I know surface that I'm working on is perfectly flat, and then that way that I can know that the, the panel is sitting perfectly flush against that glass, which means it's going to fit perfectly flush against the wall, and I'll flip it over so that I can also know that it's going to be fitting perfectly flush with the... I wanted to show you guys this. This is this is how you know it's really good quality plywood. See how wide those strips are. Those bands, and there's no gaps in any of them. It's beautiful. This is going to be a super strong joint because it is very acute angle. It was a little bit tricky cutting it my miter saw, as you saw in the time-lapse that I did. I need a paper towel. He's this big, this big miter I might have put a little bit too much in there. I'm going to actually bring you guys with me here. For this super acute miter—Sorry, bounced around there— and actually put three of those corner hinges on that one, so it won't—and a piece of foam core—so that it won't blunt the tip of my miter there. I don't want have wood glue all over my fingers I'm going to have to manipulate these miters a little bit to make sure they're all flush and sitting flat on top and bottom. So let me get a couple of gloves out of my zippered bag here. The zipper keeps out spiders. You never want to put on a pair of gloves that you just had sitting around because there's a chance there might be a spider in there. If you have one pair of gloves that has been sitting around just shake it out. If you can flip them inside out shake them out all the better, but at least give it a good shake, maybe play with the fingers a little bit. And that should help make sure that you don't have any spiders in your gloves. That's a terrifying thought. OK. There we go. OK. Now, I'll just leave this on my work bench for the next while, and that will be glued together, so after that I will sand it, make sure that, make sure that it's nice and nice and clean and then spray shellac on it and the the hardboard panel that's going on top of here, and then I will put those together. So I, I'm going to keep on keeping on here. I think I might actually be able to glue together my next panel. I do have another band clamp, but I don't know if I have enough of these guys, so I might be using my Collins clamps for that one. Stay tuned. We'll be back after these messages from...the...advertisers....

OK, so panel number two, this one's really cool because it's a triangle instead of a rectangle.... quadrilateral. Forgot the word quadrilateral for a second there. Or really, because it's a five sided figure with depth, it's a pentahedron instead of a hexahedron which is a six-sided figure. And I'm going to glue together. I'm just going to use my Collins clamps on this one because this uh yeah, this miter up here is only 26 degrees. And so if I, I think I'm really going to have a lot of trouble with the band clamp if I try to use that on that. I was pushing it with the other one. I think it would be too far with with that one. So, same process. OK. This table is pretty, pretty flat. Oh, OK. So it's the. It's just over here, over here isn't flat. This is. Thank goodness I was worried. All right, so now time for me to start on the next panel. I have probably have enough time left in me. Left and enough energy left in me to do one more today, so three panels in one day. That's not too bad.

All right, well, I am winding down, it's about 7:30pm almost. And um, but I got four panels, the frames for four panels cut today, I'm assembling the fourth one, which is really pretty interesting shape and I guess I guess that does it for me, so I hope that gave you a better perspective of what it looks like for me to do this stage in my process. Until next time, I want to encourage you to do what you love, make good work. I'll talk to you soon.