{"id":1000,"date":"2011-08-15T00:16:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-08-15T00:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T07:16:52","slug":"the-slow-way-to-luggage-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/the-slow-way-to-luggage-town\/","title":{"rendered":"the slow way to luggage town"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been making a mandolin travel case out of reclaimed lumber and metal. It’s been a very slow process; the two panels I made last autumn<\/em>. Then, because my workshop is unheated and everything involved lots of materials, I didn’t work on it again until this summer.<\/p>\n

The bottom panel is oak, made of boards unsuitable for a hallway floor, glued against some quarter-inch ply. The top panel is ply plank, salvaged from an abandoned bed, also glued against quarter-inch ply. Both are fit into grooves routed into the side-boards, all around the case, about a quarter-inch deep. The side boards are from several sources, including some disassembled Mr. Fixit work (circa 1958), a bit of what was once part of a rough-cut framing 2×4 from the house’s back addition (circa 1924), and leftovers from projects of mine. The corners are biscuit-joined, as you can see here:<\/p>\n


top and bottom halves<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This second picture is after more sanding than I want to talk about, two coats of wood hardener, two coats of stain (pro tip: wood hardener says you can stain or paint after hardener application; one of those actually works; hint: not staining) and two coats of polyurethane. Each coat has multiple hours of materials time (drying time, soaking time, etc) before you can do the next layer; so did each round of gluing, before. The polyurethane has three days<\/em> of drying time after final coat.<\/p>\n


as though hinged together<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can start to see why this takes a while.<\/p>\n

I have a sense of accomplishment with it, as well as some learning; I’ve had to re-do a couple of parts of it here and there, like the top section’s entire set of sideboards, and part of the oak panel. But I’m to the point now where I want the damn thing, f’srs. I’d lake to take it with me to VCon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monday, I can finally start attaching hardware – latches, hinges, metal trim to protect edges (all new), metal braces for the interior, like the one below, which was reclaimed earthquake strapping:<\/p>\n


hammered to L and back ar ar ar ar ar<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This case will get beat up, cosmetically, out on the road. I’m fine with that. But I want it to be no fucking around strong<\/em>, to protect my mandolin.<\/p>\n

At the same time as the hardware, I should be able to fit the divider panel on the inside, for a little storage section, like my zouk travel case has. That’ll involve Materials Time again (dammit<\/em>) but not very much.<\/p>\n

I’m really looking forward to putting in the foam. That’s the last part. This project has gone on long enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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