{"id":2280,"date":"2013-10-04T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T05:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T11:06:36","slug":"kitchen-counter-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen counter revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2008 we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=33\">knocked out the wall<\/a> between the kitchen and the living area. The idea has always been to put a counter surface on there, it&#8217;s just that I wasn&#8217;t quite sure how to do it so&#8230; I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Until a few weeks ago, when Tanya mentioned that with Jessica&#8217;s 18th birthday (cocktail) party coming up, it would be nice to have a counter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I got my arse in gear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280074r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2281\" title=\"P1280074r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280074r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Started with a couple of templates, ordered MDF mostly-cut-to-size and with the appropriate edges rounded. Not that they got it right, but it was close enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280101r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2282\" title=\"P1280101r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280101r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I carefully marked the boards and routed them to size against a straight edge and&#8230; it didn&#8217;t work out right. No idea why. Out by about two mm on the outside edge. FSCK.<\/p>\n<p>So I routed it back further and glued in a false piece and repeated the operation, but starting about 5mm oversize and coming in via router and then belt sander, half a mm at a time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280113r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2283\" title=\"P1280113r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280113r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280121r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2284\" title=\"P1280121r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1280121r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Covered the two pieces in wrapping paper for the party (I didn&#8217;t want stains on the wood before I seal it, and staining and sealing will be a slow process since I need to try to match the postform kitchen counter colour).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what it looks like at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tie the two pieces together with dowels or biscuits, maybe a screw underneath to hold things together. The polyurethane wood glue dries to almost the right colour so that should be OK&#8230; I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2008 we knocked out the wall between the kitchen and the living area. The idea has always been to put a counter surface on there, it&#8217;s just that I wasn&#8217;t quite sure how to do it so&#8230; I didn&#8217;t. Until a few weeks ago, when Tanya mentioned that with Jessica&#8217;s 18th birthday (cocktail) party coming up, it would be nice to have a counter&#8230; So I got my arse in gear. Started with a couple of templates, ordered MDF mostly-cut-to-size and with the appropriate edges rounded. Not that they got it right, but it was close enough. Then&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}