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On 11/5/2018 at 10:21 PM, drt said:

Baltic birch ply from Europe is pretty much the best ply you can buy.  No voids so it's very consistent thickness, one face is typically clear so it looks nice, plies are all oriented across each others grain so it stays flatter, and all plies are actually birch instead of having softwood species mixed in the middle layers (helps hold screws and joinery).  Chinese knockoffs aren't as good.

If you're just talking the birch plywood from home depot, it typically has a less busy grain pattern in the veneer layer than Oak (looks better painted, and if staining doesn't look like cabinetry from the 80s).  All that stuff has a paper thin layer of whatever hardwood it's named after, the rest of the plies are a mishmash.

where would you get it from?  

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2 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

where would you get it from?  

Where are you located?  In Austin, Austin Fine Lumber usually has the Baltic birch.  You could give 'em a call ahead of time to confirm.

 

 

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Echoing what others have said, Fine Lumber and Dakota are the best for finish grade plywood and lumber in Austin.  Houston Hardwoods and Mason's Mill in H-Town are legit.  We actually buy a ton from Mason's Mill and have it shipped in for larger projects.  They're cheaper even when factoring in delivery on larger orders, plus they have more knifing capabilities than most.  

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Last year I made my dad some tap handles for his homebrew kegerator.  He alternates his brews, so I wanted to make them where he could write what the beer was on the tap.IMG-4007.jpg

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I'm not really liking this, as it hides the beauty in the grain.  I initially cut four handles, and I'm trying to see what I can do with the fourth.

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What do y'all think?

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On 12/17/2018 at 9:44 AM, davidg said:

in austin, but thanks.  i usually go to austin fine lumber but i'd never seen it there, i suppose it's special order.  and is that pricing right?  $295 for a 3x5 panel?  

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1 hour ago, gsoda3 said:

in austin, but thanks.  i usually go to austin fine lumber but i'd never seen it there, i suppose it's special order.  and is that pricing right?  $295 for a 3x5 panel?  

That's an 1.5" thick Birch countertop.  Not specifically plywood.   Looking closer, HD has some birch plywood 2' x 4' panels but it isn't specifically baltic birch.  I would suggest going and looking there or Lowes and seeing if those panels will meet your needs.  If not, contact AFL and ask them about true baltic birch panels.

 

ETA:  It looks like AFL has BB in 4x8 and 5x5 panels

https://www.finelumber.com/solid-panel-inventory

 

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Follow up to my previous post about installing recessed lighting in my kitchen. A picture of my kitchen from when I moved in my house five years ago popped up on my phone today.

2012 vs 2018. Did everything myself except the granite installation.63cea327804d826e8078094cea114053.jpgb4f4830562ba0cf9e642035cf7cf6ef0.jpg

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Alright, finally finished it in time for Christmas dinner tonight. Overall really happy with it. 4 coats of poly—hopefully will be enough protection. Now onto the next project! Whatever that is ...
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This is fucking fantastic, well done man!
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Had some leftover pecky cypress and some red oak. Combined them to make a medal holder/picture frame for the wife. Oak and cypress took the stain differently but I'm happy with the final product and yeah, you fucks got a pic of the wife.7ec720b1d03935ea9db08c18a2166756.jpg

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5 hours ago, DallasHorn26 said:

I built this table and bench last year. 03eadfaff1111398810b740b8533f754.jpg9f8ce9e8e5de3d6734c022a342d9b7b0.jpg1ef7bd5d5b3bb37dac3905598877c642.jpg

That's damn near the exact same one I built earlier this year for my sister and then a second for my mom.  Same finish and everything.  Yours looks great.  Nice job.

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This slab had some really nice burl on one end and bookmatched pretty well.   On my phone it shows up much closer to the true redder color than my laptop.  Weird.  The burl area has a 3d effect as you move over it.  The crusty old sawmill guy even stopped his saw and dusted this slab off to take a better look at it.  
I put around 10 coats of wipe-on poly on it so it should hold up against water rings should some asshole put his drink on it.


Not really. Laptops tend to have garbage screens whereas phones (particularly high end ones) have pretty high gamut and accuracy.
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Follow up to my previous post about installing recessed lighting in my kitchen. A picture of my kitchen from when I moved in my house five years ago popped up on my phone today.

2012 vs 2018. Did everything myself except the granite installation.63cea327804d826e8078094cea114053.jpgb4f4830562ba0cf9e642035cf7cf6ef0.jpg
Looks good. How did you paint the cabinets
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On my 1960's house I redid the cabinets similar to his. Mine were black and I wanted white. The doors were sprayed with like 4 coats of oil based white and I did the rest with small rollers. Again four coats. The small rollers made it look like sprayed. I would not do it this way again. Took way too long. With hindsight I would mask everything and use spray gun inside the kitchen. The time to mask would have been less than using those rollers. Spraying the doors was quick - the hardest part was changing the cabinet knobs from a handle with two screws to a single screw knob. Had to fill a hole and sand a lot to make it smooth. Plus I had a ton of doors. The previous owner put about 20 small cabinets around the top at the ceiling. Each door was about one foot and it took a while just to remove them and put them back.

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Looks good. How did you paint the cabinets

A shitload of work. Removed the doors and drawers so I could do them separately from the boxes. Wiped down, scrubbed with Krud Kutter, wiped down again, and lightly scuffed everything with scour pads. Masked off everything around the boxes and rolled/sprayed them. I started out using mini foam rollers, but ended up just rolling the primer and spraying the finish coats using a Wagner sprayer. Rolled/sprayed the doors and drawers in my garage. Primed with Zinsser BIN to block out any remaining grease. Painted with a paint called Cabinet Coat sold at Benjamin Moore stores. It was expensive, but dried super fast and had a nice hard finish. 

 

I also had to fill/sand holes from previous knobs because they were all misaligned. That took a long time, but was worth it.

 

Also also, I used a router to remove the center panels from a few doors and replaced with glass. YouTube videos showing how to do that.

 

I think it turned out pretty good, but took me forever.

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I will say that even with as much work as it was, I'm glad I did it. Completely changed the whole feel of the house and made me actually want to spend time in the kitchen. The counters were formica and the faucet was made out of plastic for Christ sake.

 

 

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On 12/30/2018 at 6:17 PM, Okie State said:

Follow up to my previous post about installing recessed lighting in my kitchen. A picture of my kitchen from when I moved in my house five years ago popped up on my phone today.

2012 vs 2018. Did everything myself except the granite installation.63cea327804d826e8078094cea114053.jpgb4f4830562ba0cf9e642035cf7cf6ef0.jpg

That looks fantastic! 

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Probably a stupid electrical issue here, if somebody has some thoughts. 

End of run receptacle not working, but has worked in past. The immediately preceding receptacle that it wires to works fine.

I am getting nothing when I test the end of run hot.

I get voltage on both hot posts on the preceding receptacle.

I get continuity on neutral and ground, no continuity on hot and ground (I believe this is expected). 

I had to put everything back in the wall and step away for something else, but going to jump back into this tomorrow. What other diagnostics should I be running. I plan to check continuity between hot and hot on the two receptacles first thing.

Am I missing something stupid and obvious. Its 12g yellow wire throughout. This is an interior island, there is no chance of rodents or anything getting into to wall in this location. 

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" userid="772"] Switchable  hot? 

" userid="772"] I would remove receptacle and test wires from behind.  Could just be bad receptacle, not common but does happen.

Check these, and make sure nothing has came loose on the receptacle.
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30 minutes ago, MAGS® said:

I would remove receptacle and test wires from behind.  Could just be bad receptacle, not common but does happen.

I was testing at the wires with the end of run receptacle removes I also tested the receptacle when it was as removed at it’s good. 

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Are you using the screw terminals or the stabs in the back? Any chance there is a splice in between the two receptacles? Based on the detail in your write up, I assume there is no chance it’s on a GFCI?

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Screw terminals are tight. Fight thing checked. Not using the stabs in the back. All the plugs are on a gfci at the front of the chain. It’s a relatively new gfci and tests good. All the other plugs in the chain work fine and trip the gfci when tested.  It’s possible that there is a splice in the line behind the wall, but that would be a pretty stupid install since they are about 3’ apart. 

Im going to pull both the receptacles this afternoon run continuity tests at lines. 

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Receptacles all check out. I get continuity between neutral and ground at each end.  Nothing on hot.  I tried to see if I had any pictures of the exposed wiring when we remodeled the kitchen a few years back, but no dice. Sounds like somebody gets to pull a new wire.

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One other thing to try: string a 12ga wire between the outlets and see if you get power to the outlet. That will tell you if it is indeed the hot wire or not.

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I think I found the issue. There was another receptacle wired between the two, on the other side of the island, under the counter and out of sight. That receptacle appears to need replacing. doh. 

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16 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I think I found the issue. There was another receptacle wired between the two, on the other side of the island, under the counter and out of sight. That receptacle appears to need replacing. doh. 

Whew, I was getting ready to just tell you to start sticking a fork in each receptacle till you found the dead one....

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So I am just going to turn this page into electrical questions this weekend.

After I replaced receptacle above, all worked fine.  Went ahead and replaced all the other receptacles on that run.

Then went about changing out a receptacle in the living room has not worked since we moved in.  The impacted circuit feeds an outlet along the ground, which then goes to an outlet above the fireplace. Found out why there was a problem pretty quickly. Eek.

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This looks like they tried to direct wire all three into the receptacle using the screw and the push hole in the back.  It is my understanding that these should be pigtailed, and then run to the receptacle. Is it acceptable to pigtail two of the cables and use both screws in the receptacle, or should I pigtail all three together and just run a single black and single white to the receptable.  The grounds are already pigtailed.

 

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