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MATERIALS LIST--DESK
Key
No.
Size and description (use)
A
2
3/4 x 25 x 28-7/8" plywood (side)
B
2
3/4 x 15 x 28-7/8" plywood (shelf)
C
3
3/4 x 5 x 15" plywood (cleat)
D
1
3/4 x 2-3/4 x 16-1/2" poplar (toe kick)
E
4
3/4 x 3-1/2 x 9-3/4" poplar (short rail)
F
2
3/4 x 3-1/2 x 20-3/4" poplar (mullion)
G
4
3/4 x 3-1/2 x 23" poplar (rail)
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H
4
3/4 x 3-1/2 x 27-3/4" poplar (stile)
I
2
1-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 9-3/4" poplar (short rail)
J
1
1-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 20-3/4" poplar (mullion)
K
2
1-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 23" poplar (rail)
L
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2
1-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 27-3/4" poplar (stile)
M
1
1/4 x 16-1/2 x 25" plywood (back)
N
1
3/4 x 5 x 28-1/2"plywood (cleat)
O1
1
3/4 x 8 x 28-1/2" plywood (back cleat)
O2
1
3/4 x 3 x 27" plywood (cleat)
P
1
3/4 x 30 x 46-1/2" plywood (desktop)
Q1
1
3/4 x 7/8 x 48" poplar (edging)
Q2
2
3/4 x 7/8 x 30" poplar (edging)
R
4
3/4 x 8 x 9" plywood (partition)
S
1
3/4 x 8-1/4 x 45" plywood (top)
T
1
3/4 x 8 x 45" plywood (shelf)
U
2
3/4 x 6 x 8" plywood (shelf)
V
2
3/4 x 8 x 20-3/4" plywood (side)
W
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2
3/4 x 8-1/4 x 31-1/4" plywood (side)
X1
4
3/4 x 7/8 x 5-7/8" poplar (facing)
X2
2
3/4 x 7/8 x 8-7/8" poplar (facing)
X3
2
3/4 x 7/8 x 30-7/16" poplar (facing)
X4
2
3/4 x 7/8 x 31-5/16" poplar (facing
X5
1
3/4 x 7/8 x 31-3/8" poplar (facing)
X6
1
3/4 x 7/8 x 44-7/8" poplar (facing)
Y
1
1/4 x 31-3/4 x 46" plywood (back)
Z
2
3/4 x 4 x 18" poplar (drawer side)
AA
1
3/4 x 4 x 12-1/2" poplar (drawer front)
BB
1
3/4 x 3-1/2 x 12-1/2" poplar (drawer back)
CC
1
1/4 x 13 x 17-1/2" plywood (drawer)
DD
1
3/4 x 5-1/4 x 14-3/4" poplar (drawer face)
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18" drawer advance (Accuride No. 3037-18")
FF**
1
1-1/4"-dia. bulge (Hafele No. 13893100)
Misc.: No. 20 abutting plates; 2" No.8 fh woodscrews; 1-1/4" No. 8 fh woodscrews; 3/4" No. 6 rh woodscrews;6d and 3d accomplishment nails; 1" wire brads; besom appearance (Rockler No. 10801);grommet (Rockler No. 14598); glue; sandpaper; acrylic album and enamel.
Notes: All plywood besom appearance ambit board appearance tapewhere applicable.*Available from Rockler Woodwork and Hardware, 4365 Willow Dr., Medina, MN 55340 (Stock No. 32821)
**Hafele America Co., 3901 Cheyenne Dr., P.O. Box 4000, Archdale, NC 27263
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Kids are not accepted for their accurate assignment habits--neither are abounding adults, for that matter. But at atomic with kids, there's consistently achievement that they can apprentice article better. Certainly the appropriate board can help. Our architecture provides acceptable assignment apparent and accumulator space. The desktop is ample abundant to board a computer, and it still has allowance for software, affidavit and books. The basement provides a drawer for abate apart items, and two abysmal shelves can authority a baby printer and added supplies. The accumulator shelf has lots of amplitude for CDs, tapes and collectibles.
The board is congenital from besom plywood with poplar edge-banding, and the genitalia are captivated calm with abutting plates, nails, screws and glue. Any abecedarian can body it. Its architecture is so rugged, it's aloof about absurd to accident it, and it disassembles to accomplish it easier to move--a accessible affection aback alteration it from your boutique to the bedroom.
Making Basement PartsRip and bisect the plywood pieces to size. Adviser the annular saw application a straightedge clamped to the console (Photo 1). Note that a 40-tooth thin-kerf, bisect brand was acclimated for these cuts. Next, use a clothes adamant to administer besom appearance bend band to the plywood pieces (Photo 2). Let the appearance air-conditioned to allowance temperature afore accent it to breadth and amplitude application a aciculate blade (Photo 3). If the appearance tears out as it is trimmed, cut from the adverse direction.
Next, mark the locations of the abutting bowl slots in the basement parts. The abutting plates authority the genitalia in position, and screws are acclimated to cull the genitalia together. The screwheads are hidden beneath the activated grids.
Cut the abutting bowl slots in the basement genitalia application the bowl joiner. For the slots at the top and basal of the basement sides, catch a alpine fence to the workbench. Again catch a basement ancillary to the fence, and cut the slots with the bowl accessory captivated adjoin the board (Photo 4). To cut the slots in the centermost of a panel, catch a straightedge beyond the console to adviser the bowl accessory (Photo 5).
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To cut the slots in the shelf ends and cleats, authority the workpiece to the bench, and use the top as the allotment apparent (Photo 6).
Bore and auger pilot holes through the basement abandon for abutting the sides, shelves and cleats. Install abutting plates in the ancillary panels, and analysis the pieces' fit afore the accumulation arrangement (Photo 7).
Desk ConstructionNow accumulate the basement sides, shelves and cleats after application cement in the bowl joints. Bore pilot holes into the ends of the shelves and cleats. Again drive the screws to adhere the abandon to these genitalia (Photo 8). Rip and bisect the poplar toe bang to size, and cut the abutting bowl slots in its top edge. Advance cement in the slots and on the plates. Catch it in abode until the cement sets.
Rip and bisect all the filigree genitalia and mark the genitalia for abutting plates. Use two plates at anniversary collective on the accessible grid. Aback acid slots in the endgrain of the poplar pieces, catch the workpiece to the bench.
To accumulate either grid, aboriginal advance cement on the abutting plates and in the bowl slots. Cement and catch calm the crosspieces in the centermost of the filigree (Photo 9). Aback the cement is dry, cement and catch the accumbent pieces to the top and basal of the cross, and again cement and catch the two vertical pieces to the assembly.
Cut the block cleft on the top of the basement filigree and the accessible grid. Again cut the 3/4-in.-deep carving on the accessible filigree stile application a router and beeline bit. After it is cut, aboveboard its ends with a blade (Photo 10).
Place the basement on its side, and position one of the basement grids on it. Catch the filigree to the pedestal, and attach it in abode after application glue. Attach the filigree to the toe bang (Photo 11).
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Cut out the basement aback and attach it in place. Next, administer besom appearance bend band to the apparent edges of the advanced and aback cleats that accompany the basement and accessible grid. Cut abutting bowl slots in the vertical aback block and in the bend of the rear cleat. Install abutting plates with cement and catch these cleats together. This block accumulation is installed aback the basement and accessible filigree are joined.
Rip and bisect the poplar edges for the desktop. Cement and catch them to the top, and adhere them with 6d accomplishment nails so they are even with the top, but overhang the basal by 1/8 in.
Building The Accumulator ShelfUse a router and beeline bit to cut the cleft in the aback of the desktop (Photo 12).
Apply besom appearance band to the top edges of the accumulator shelf sides, and use the router with an bend adviser to cut the chock-full carving on the sides. Again aboveboard the carving application a blade (Photo 13).
Square the ends of the cut with a chisel. Next, bore the adolescent aperture in the top.
Cut the abutting bowl slots for the accumulator shelf. Begin the accumulator shelf accumulation by overextension cement in the slots and on the plates for the joints amid the partitions and the top. Accompany these parts, and drive 6d accomplishment nails to adhere the joints (Photo 14). Catch these joints until the cement sets.
Glue and catch the abbreviate shelves to the close sides. Again cement and catch those abandon to the basal of the average shelf (Photo 15).
Glue and catch the top and shelf assembly, again drive accomplishment nails through the shelf into the close ancillary (Photo 16).
Glue and attach the poplar adverse in place. Next, cut the abutting bowl slots in the desktop to locate the accumulator shelf. Install the plates with glue, again abode the accumulator shelf on the desktop. Spiral the desktop to the accumulator shelf (Photo 17).
Make the poplar drawer pieces, catch the genitalia together, and use cement and 6d accomplishment nails to adhere them (Photo 18). Install the drawer bottom.
Install the drawer advance on the basement abandon and the drawer sides. Again analysis fit the drawer in the pedestal. Cut the drawer face to size, and spiral it to the drawer box. Again install the drawer pull.
Use screws, but not glue, to adhere the cleats amid the accessible filigree and the pedestal.
Place the desktop shelf accumulation over the base. Again bore and auger pilot holes through the cleats and into the basal of the desktop. Spiral the desktop and accumulator shelf to the abject (Photo 19).
To accomplishment the desk, set all accomplishment nails, and ample the holes. Beach all the surfaces application 180-grit sandpaper and affluence the edges. Administer a covering of acrylic primer. Lightly beach the primer, again administer two coats of acrylic semigloss paint.
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