After bringing all the parts back to my apartment, the next step was to dis-assemble each cabinet as I needed to finish staining a few pieces. Once finished and re-assembled, I needed to cut the correct lengths for the pipe support dowels. I first painted them black before cutting to length. As I soon realized, I shouldn't have done that...
Having that coat of paint adds thickness to the dowel (duh). So, once all the support dowels were cut to size, they were very tight going into their pipe. This required me to sand some of the paint off. Once I got through that, I glued them in place and painted the tops of the pipes black as well as touched up any missing black from the support dowel.
Installing the pipes was a little tricky, but straight forward. There were nails piercing through the bottom of the cabinet where each pipe would go. At the top, a screw would secure the support dowel from the top. Once I found the right spot for each pipe, I tightened the screw and called it good. The results...
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The next exciting part is what I finished today. After staining the grills, I was ready to prep them for installation. I took a 1/2" square stock and attached them to the top and some of the side of the grill. Once dry, these will be what secures the grill to the cabinet.
Yes, you see the above picture right, I'm able to turn the cabinet upside down and those pipes aren't going anywhere!
At this very moment (Sunday night), all four grills are glued in place and they are drying. I look forward to turning them right-side up tomorrow morning and seeing the results. However, even upside down, it looks good.
Amidst all of this, I have been taking a lot of videos on top of the photos I post here. My plan is to create a vlog (video-blog) documenting the journey of Opus IV as well as the pipe art project which follows. These will be uploaded to my YouTube channel but I will also include them here on this blog.
Until next time...
