This week, I’ll be posting a couple of projects that were inspired by the Gadget Station series. I certainly took inspiration from a number of sources when making the Gadget Station, so its very cool for me to see others take inspiration from it. This CD storage case was submitted by Brian. Let’s see what he has to say:
Let me first say that I love the site and all the podcasts! Your comical approach really appeals to the masses and all the great information is a solid reinforcement to your dedication to our craft. Great Job!
I am in my late twenty’s and live in the North GA mountains. I grew up watching Norm on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. He taught me all the basics, and I still watch him to this day. Later in life I discovered David Marks, and he changed how I look at my projects and that there is an amazing rainbow of woods available to us. Most recently I have found your site. I love the fact that you combine all the great influences into your podcasts. You are a very fortunate person to have learned directly from these masters. I enjoy building furniture of all kinds, but my real passion is woodturning. I specialize in segmented turning and have included a link to some of my work.
Now then, enough with the brown nosing. One of my favorite projects was your gadget station. The use of woods, as well as the Greene & Greene and Asian influences grabbed my attention immediately. So using your inspiration, I designed and built my own smaller version to hold cd’s. It is constructed of walnut legs with a poplar body (spalted on back), and a spalted sycamore door. You may notice there is no handle on the door. I embedded magnets in the door to close it and also magnets in the spire on top to then grab and open it. I used a set of barrel hinges from Rockler to allow the door to drop down and be concealed at the same time. This touch anchored the medieval castle theme, I felt I had going on. Well, I hope my cabinet did you some justice. Keep up the great work.
Cool design. I like the little secrete way of opening the case. The Spalted Sycamore is also something worth looking into for some of my projects. I’ll have to keep an eye out for some.
loglad,
nicely done! I’ve always appreciated the design elements of Marc’s gadget station and you’ve done a superb job of recreating those details…
Nice use of different woods – I also checked out some of your turning projects they are beautiful. Everyone on here is so inspiring….
Is the magnet in the spire’s base larger than the one that holds the door closed?
I’ve never seen segmented wood turning. Very interesting. As for your CD storage case, it’s very nicely done and has a balanced look. The spalted sycamore door looks wonderful.
Very nice! I really like the door alot. I do not own cd’s anymore but this design could be used for lots of things and really is a nice piece of art!
Wonderful job. It’s too nice to hold CD’s. It looks like something more valuable should be inside.
thanks everyone for the kind words! aggie83 asked about the magnets. the original idea was to have the door magnet set to a depth that would allow it to “catch” the case, but still let the spire magnet open it. i never could get it to work reliably. so i simply added two magnets to either side of the center one, and covered them with walnut plugs. now it stays shut, but opens everytime i need it to. hope this helps
I love it!! Marcs style is catching!!!
Well, you know what they say: Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Marc’s Gadget Station is definitely worth lifting an idea or two from. You could make an entire furniture series inspired from the design of the Gadget Station!
thats cool looks almost like the gadget station