SeanTheEvans Wineador Build Thread

[Rocket Scientologist]

Decided to make the slats for the bottoms first. Ripped the 1 inch thick wood into 3rds for the slat thickness. At this point figured I was making 7 shelves, 5 slats each. 2 Long ones, and 3 shorter. This was because I noticed that the door had to be open 180 degrees to pull the shelves out if they had slats that extended on both sides. So now the first 3 on each drawer only extend on the left, not the right where the door is hinged. The door only needs to be opened 90 degrees now to allow the drawer to come out, and it stops once it reaches the 4th slat, which extends on both sides. Pretty nice, the design is simple and suits me.

So you put the slats on the narrow edge to rip them down thinner? Isn't that kind of a dangerous cut?

[Sticky B]

So you put the slats on the narrow edge to rip them down thinner? Isn't that kind of a dangerous cut?

Not sure if the ones in the picture are fully cut (just re-checked based on table saw measurements in the photo, and those are the finished slats, they weren't ripped any thinner than that), but we cut 1 in thick slats twice, into 3 equal thicknesses, a little over 1/4 inch, as the saw cuts off some. Watched a few videos on ripping wood, some guys are amazing at it, can get long boards incredibly thin. These are as long as I ripped, and we had a "wood pusher", a long wooden block with a notch to fit onto the wood you're sliding through, and a long handle - to keep my body far far away from the blade. Having someone on the other side to receive it made the whole job easier, along with our pusher.

Here's one of the videos we found, lol, those pieces look super-thin