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I've also been playing with some flatpack design lately. Mostly just to learn about the pitfalls and mistakes that I make.
My first project was a very uncomfortable chair. I learned a bit about making chairs. Mainly that what looks tall in autocad might turn out looking pretty squat in real life. Oops.
A fellow flickrer turned me on to a useful plywood joinery technique to help me with future flatpack-ish projects. I'm going to try it on the next go around.
Right now I'm designing a book case. The biggest challenge that I see with my book case is concealing the plywood edges. Maybe I shouldn't even care... A sharp bit on some good ply will produce a nice edge...
If the bookcase comes out nicely I'll post the parts.
-Z
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ok, I finished the shelves. Got a headache~!!
You will have to resize. BTW there are an extra set of middle pieces that need to be deleted.
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I cut some in MDF. Can you see im bored?
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Dave,
Very cool stuff. I love this kind of fabrication. I've build a few bunk beds for my kids. It's a great way to learn and find design flaws and gems alike.
Gabe
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Danny,
We must have visited the same website, I just finished up a 3d rendering of that exact same design a few days ago. I've seen these in various places on the web, they are extremely simple and cool.
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Gabe
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These a great designs files. I thought it would be a neat way for me to start on the shopbot and really figure it out
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I had to manually draw it in cad lol!
Because I didn't know the mathematics behind slicing a 3d sphere.
Someday I'll learn a 3d cad program
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Danny, it's easier to draw manually in 2d cad (Once you figure out what's really going on
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I just do the 3d to show the guys at the shop what it will look like without having to actually build one.
Gabe
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Dave don't worry about the plywood showing. I cut flat pack stuff every day and it's very seldom someone asks about the plywood edge. if it dose bother you maybe try something like Apple Ply and make the edge a focal point of your project.
oh... and great job on the bookcase. it will look great when its done.
Erik
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Thanks Gabe and Erik,
I'm definitely over-sensitive to the edge. That stems mostly from the fact that for theater scenery/furniture I use cheep-o plywood.
What's the best way to prep plywood edges for paint. For this project I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do. Because I'm new to this I've never worked with edge banding. I was thinking of giving that a shot.
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