A unique way to accent ordinary vinyl shutters using overlay wrap hinges!
The hinge is deliberately visible to provide an accent and in most cases works as designed even if deliberately installed in an off label fashion.
Hinge installed here on vinyl shutter with wooden cleat attached.
The Corona Chronicles-like everyone else -work here at Handyman Headquarters in downtown
Raleigh sputtered along in 3/4 or even 1/4 time during the dreary Spring Incarceration of 2020.
Long hours alone surrounded by sawdust and powertools punctuated by explorations of
Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome for the Cabin Fever Crowd (CLICK LINK)
and, of course, the ever popular Gatorade Snaptop Canister made from 2 recycled Gatorade plastic bottles.(CLICK LINK)
Howsomeever, there were and continue to be JOBSHOP PROJECTS!
Similar to jobshop projects from the recent past
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some part of this custom bathroom vanity lay on the work bench through most of March, April and May.
Big pieces of lumber and plywood cut into small pieces of lumber and plywood (Step 1)
Said small pieces of lumber and plywood reassembled into other larger pieces of lumber and plywood. (Step 2)
Hardware and fixtures assembled and installed! (Step 3)
Finally, the completely assembled unit at the jobsite!
If your kitchen cabinet door or any custom cabinet door implodes for some reason or other DO NOT PANIC,DO NOT DESPAIR, DO NOT ACT IN HASTE!
The best thing you can do is carefully tape all the pieces in place and wait for me or some FIXIT type to arrive and carefully remove all the pieces and splinters to better assemble and reattach everything back together.
This door was reattached and reassembled with no sign of damage because the homeowner was careful not to add to the initial injury.
All the pieces fit together and complete recovery was the end result.
Another example of careful repair work can be found here:CLICK LINK
Fun and frolic with a pantograph- the analog human powered version of a CNC machine! Medallion version 2.0– Different Font; Stronger Color!
So here is a replacement for the factory original equipment medallion (Version 1.0) that was summarily removed by some young Odocoileus virginianus one fine summer evening. Cut by pantograph from a blank made from repurposed milk jug plastic (HDPE 2) and inlayed with 2 part epoxy. A fine fun project! Fie on those cumbersome fancy Silicon Valley computer widgets!
Yup, before CNC we had analog human powered pantographs. Here at work on a custom replacement medallion (Version 1.0) for a Mercury Mountaineer. Great Fun!
More people should try this. Suppose you have a beautiful scrap slab of butcher block counter top.
Now you need legs to convert the slab to a functional table.
You COULD buy or make some legs from the local lumberyard. Very expensive! Click link
OR you could use a little ingenuity to convert salvage legs from a discarded table
to fit the top you already have.
Flea markets, yard sales, thrift stores and (sadly) even the local dump overflow with
genuine factory grade hardwood legs from yesteryear which can be repurposed to make a
beautiful base for your new table top.
Here is one example in four easy steps:
Step #1
Funky beat up particle board table top attached to scuzzy factory table legs at the local thrift
shop. $40.00 out the door!
Step #2
Boy, did these legs clean up nicely! The finish surface underneath the gunk was almost
pristine. What a gem! Obviously they are the wrong width and length to fit the new table
top, so a few cuts and fill wood will complete the reattachment to their new home.
Step #3
Good to go! The new assembly is showroom shiny.
Step #4
A finish coat for the butcher block and this table fits perfectly with the kitchen decor!
The Dog Days of August howl with pain when a beautiful clear fir vintage solid wood door
arrives in the shop seriously crippled by an encounter of the unpleasant kind!
A real good old timey Legacy Entry Door should not suffer such indignity!
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! O how hast this most grievous wound come to pass?
Fortunately Habitat for Humanity provides a perfect replacement salvage panel to transplant
into the damaged heritage door with complete recovery anticipated and followed by many more
decades of useful service in the dwelling of origin for this most hearty and faithful relic
of times past.
The world made whole again. Whew!
For other door repair adventures
TJ Kattermann-One man repairs and home improvements in Raleigh’s Glenwood South and the metropolitan area.
(919) 834-4833
Final update of all updates:
ViviLnk
Update: My client finished the stain and varnish work in between his trips
abroad and work assignments at his job. The net result-not too bad! Ready for
the book collection!
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Custom dimension birch plywood shelf units (8 feet tall) with poplar trim
delivered “flat pack” and assembled on site.
So what to do if your cat insists on his own egress and the only window available is 10 feet above the ground next to the parking lot power pole?
Simple answer: convert the power pole into a gargantuan scratch post and lounge area!
There may soon be pictures or video of Cat enjoying his new amenities.
YES! CLICK LINK HERE TO SEE CAT ON CAT POST
This project is also an excellent example of why it is important to know how to cut oversize plywood circles with some variety of table saw. (CLICK LINK HERE)
Such ability might be handy when a customer asks you to convert a power pole into a cat toy…..
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In an era of central air conditioning and sealed window high rise buildings, the staff here at the International Headquarters was all aflutter when a genuine screen door repair appeared on the job shop task board.
Not just any screen door either, this is a vintage 7 foot tall screen door in service for at least 50 years. Could not tell you whether people were taller in the good ole days, but their doors sure were.
In fact, size may be what kept this door in service all these years since the cost of a custom jobshop aluminum storm door is pretty certainly astronomical no matter the era of the estimate.
In any case, the old moulding withstood removal and reattachment and the screen looked as taut and new as it probably did fifty odd years ago.
Check out the original full mortise box latch installed in the 1 1/2 inch thick stile. Your Grandfather was a precise, patient and meticulous man when he cut that slot into the door with hand powered drills and chisels back in the day. It appears to have the original trimplate screws on one side. (The other side, not so much!)
19th Century Technology was designed to be infinitely accessible….. thus theoretically infinitely repairable.
The bad news: infinitely accessible means anyone with a pocket knife at hand or screwdriver in the kitchen drawer will try to adjust vintage door knobs with no concept of the proper original factory default settings.
This outlook leads to mangled screw heads, cross threaded set screw holes and damaged handle spindles.
Sometimes, with luck, it is possible to drill out and remove mangled set screws, reshape cross threaded set screw holes with the aid of a thread tap and restore the original factory default settings with slightly less accessible 21st Century technology so these door knobs may serve for another 50 to 100 years in quiet dignity.
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