McIntosh and Co. Cabinetmakers

 On Tuesday May 5th, I came in and began painting shelves for Todd (the co. owner). These pieces were going into his home. That was a quick task, I then moved onto hand sanding many, many pieces that were primed. After wood is primed it tends to raise the grain in the wood so to get it smooth to the touch for a finish coat of paint these trim pieces needed to be "rubbed out" or hand sanded with a 120 or 220.  This photo above...

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Building Concepts Course CMCC- Week 28 Final Exams Week

For the last week, we did our competency testing consisting of in-shop exercises and computer tests. With our other time in class we spent it wrapping up the freeze boards on our sheds and doing all the punch list type things that come with competing small buildings, sinking nail heads and touch up paint, that kind of stuff.     Once the sheds were totally done we worked on cleaning the shop from top to bottom. As well as completing...

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Building Construction Concepts Course CMCC Week 27- Wrapping Up Our Sheds

 The final week was upon us, this is the deconstruction of our flooring system over the hill. We got the entire thing taken apart and stored for the next set of first year students at CMCC coming in this fall.   Here I am fitting the drip cap for the window trim. I had to wait to install this piece because we had to paint it so the white would not contrast so much with the green trim.  ...

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McIntosh and Co. Cabinetmakers Birds Eye Maple Box

On this day I felt was a test.. a test to see how many small mistakes I could make working by myself! I had minimal supervision and I was given a list of tasks with an ultimate goal of having a completed box at the end. To build this box according to the CAD plans I started by milling out the maple for it. The maple boards ended up having birdeye patterns in it, pretty cool. To save time on the plainer, I used a band-saw to reduce the rough...

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