The Johnson Blog

The hippo is back, this time as a picture frame for Ana’s desk (to hold a picture of David… on a hippo)

Last weekend I purchased a few cheap boards of wood to get some practice on my scroll saw.  What better way to test it out than to cut out the hippo again?  It takes [...]

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I started this project on the weekend of January 25th, and here on March 6th my camera cabinet sits completed and filled with my gear.  It turned out WAY better than I hoped and expected and I don’t have to hide it in a corner.   I normally wouldn’t have gone for the gold hardware, but [...]

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I did lots of sanding on Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday morning.  And tonight I was able to apply the first coat of stain.

So far I’m fairly pleased with the results.  I can see a few spots where I screwed up and must not have sanded all of the wood glue remnants, the jury [...]

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This evening I finished the remaining work on the cabinet construction.

Here’s a photo of how my camera bags fit - not too shabby.  The lenses will go on the shelf and the camera in the drawer with all of other accessories.

While I’m glad to have it all completely built finally, I’m pretty nervous about staining [...]

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8 Hours.  That’s how long the project book said it would take to make the book case I designed my camera cabinet off of.  Ha!  I can’t even count how many hours I’ve put in on this thing now - probably another 6 or so this weekend.  I’m slow.
I made quite a bit of progress [...]

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It has been a very productive weekend, and as I sit here on Sunday night I’m beat.
First, we emptied David’s toy box and took it out to the garage so it could get it’s first couple coats of paint.  It looks great already, and Ana still has lots of details planned for it remaining.  Here [...]

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In the nearly two years since I purchased my DSLR, I have accumulated quite a bit of stuff - lenses, flash, bag, cleaning supplies, etc.  My current organization “technique” has been to keep some of this stuff in my LowePro Slingshot 200, others in another bag, and the remainder on my desk or in a [...]

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The Hippo is up on the wall and holding up David’s coats!

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