Tylor’s Gadget Station

Viewer Project - By Tylor McCormick from Montreal, QC
Added on December 6, 2012

Credit for the main design must go to Marc S. and his Gadget Station Project which was such a balanced design that is hard to come by these days, amazing legs!
I saw the pictures and videos of the gadget station and I was a few months away from my final project. I decided to recreate Marc’s “masterpiece” with my own ideas for change. So I scaled it up, but made it much larger (more like a liquor cabinet) and drew it in sketch up. The handles I changed to curve the same as the legs and the door construction is a bit different as well as the interior which has only one shelf with a fixed divider on the bottom, but all in all very much the same.

Anyway, I could ramble on about how much Marc’s work inspired me to recreate this but I will cut this short…Thank you Marc S. for all your great work and sharing of passion and knowledge!

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Patrick Schupbach December 6, 2012 10:55 am

Mighty fine Gadget Station!!!! I love the contrasting woods!!

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Jim Abbruzzese December 6, 2012 10:57 am

Well done Tylor. I know it’s a small detail, but I like that the ebony plugs are flush instead of proud.

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- GregF December 6, 2012 1:30 pm
  
  I agree. The flush plugs are a nice look.
  
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Steve December 6, 2012 11:43 am

Very nice work!!

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Mark December 6, 2012 2:16 pm

Wow…what a great piece of work! Appropriately posted on a classy site that provides the aspiring perfectionist a place to study. Always stunned when I stop on in…it’s never the same experience twice!

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Jean-Marc (from Calgary) December 6, 2012 2:42 pm

Excellent Work Tylor!!
I think you did a great Job.
It appears that you know what you are doing.
I really like the contrasting colors and the accentuated grain of the wood.
Did you stain any of the wood?
Thanks for posting the pictures.

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Grant December 6, 2012 5:29 pm

Great job Tylor. Lots of things to love on project. I especially liked the legs. Great pictures.

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matthew rakowski December 6, 2012 7:45 pm

very nice looks like it came out great

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Anson December 6, 2012 8:44 pm

Wow that is beautiful.

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Barry Lam December 6, 2012 9:20 pm

I don’t know if people will find this inappropriate, but I wonder if people with projects would find it interesting to know how much time and money people spent on materials, including finishing materials, and building. I am interested both from an economic perspective as to how much hobby craftsmanship contributes to the economy and also how much custom woodworking costs relative to the cheap and mass-produced stuff we get in furniture stores. I also like to know from the perspective of the budding woodworker as to how much income I will need when I get to the more sophisticated level as Tylor and Marc S. here.

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- GregF December 7, 2012 9:52 am
  
  Barry, that’s an interesting idea. Frankly, as a hobbyist I rarely keep tabs on my project costs. Most of the stuff I have built is for personnel or family use. Because of the amount of “left-over” I end up with, I think calculating the cost of a project versus actual cost might be frustrating. For instance, I recently built a Peruvian box drum (Cajon in Spanish) and had to buy a full sheet of 3 millimeter plywood when I only needed a 14 inch by 18 inch piece. I have enough left over to build a hand full more Cajones and I only want one! So do we calculate based on actual amount of material used in a project or the money spent acquiring the material?
  
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- Levi Rathje December 7, 2012 9:53 am
  
  The cost of mterials can be quite variable depending on many factor. The location and access to wood is big one, also types of wood a project is constructed of. Wood can goBasically from reasonable to insane depending on how much you want to spend to make it, and what look you are going for. Basically it’s up to you and your taste, but it will always have a special meaning knowing you made it.
  
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- Frank Matz December 7, 2012 10:09 am
  
  Barry,
  I think this would be a good topic to bring up in the forums. I’d like to hear others thoughts on this as well. Personally with a hobby you’re in it for the enjoyment so the dollars and cents of things aren’t the same as if it was a business. As far as the projects displayed here, that would be interesting to see the cost, but that would vary greatly. It would depend on how much was leftovers, found or donated materials. Location also plays a big part in costs, both for materials and prospective buyers. Knowing the materials used in a project is always a benefit in order to guage what the cost would be to replicate it.
  
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woodyb December 6, 2012 10:49 pm

beautiful work.

robert

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Frank Matz December 7, 2012 9:43 am

A truely great job and inspiring piece. I really like the changes you made. The doors look fantastic as does the flush ebony pegs. But I’ve got to ask; were the plugs meant to be flush, or is this a case of edge triming gone bad and a cool recovery?

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- Tylor McCormick March 6, 2013 4:18 pm
  
  No the plugs were meant to be flush, it was another aspect of the piece that I wanted to do differently, because you more often these days see proud plugs. I desided to test the flush look on scrap first to get a feel for it and it seemed the right choice! Thank you for your appreciation!
  
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Stephen W. December 7, 2012 11:02 am

Great looking work! Love the extended/through joints at the top.

One point of critique. The pointed corners on the top are not very “user friendly” particularly if you have kids in the house. I do like it from a design standpoint, truly, but this would be the one form vs. function part worth considering.

Also, I like the idea of adding a cost and time detail in the descriptor. Not that it has to be razor accurate, just to give an idea to someone considering something similar. Could be useful.

Congrats on such a nice piece!

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Jerry S December 7, 2012 1:06 pm

Tylor. Excellent job, as you already know.

I like that you did not go the easy way out with round plugs. Interesting choice with making them flush. I like it.

Looking forward to your work in the future.

Jerry S

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Bill in Ohio December 7, 2012 2:30 pm

Very nice project. It gives me ideas for a project. Thanks for sharing.

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ken London December 7, 2012 8:36 pm

Great job.as a retired shop teacher I would surely give you high marks.

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Ed Nyegaard December 8, 2012 8:41 am

Excellent work, I think you have just graduated from semi-pro to PRO.

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turtle December 8, 2012 10:49 am

Great job!
I especially liked the way the Grenadille created amazing accents.

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Seth Hoover December 8, 2012 3:14 pm

This is a fantastic piece!

I love the book matched door panels and all the grain matching on the door rails and stiles! The way you brought some of the shape from the legs into the door handles but also into the stiles is very nice!

Great work!

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Caveman December 8, 2012 4:18 pm

This looks like something you’d find in a Hobbit village. Nice work, I like the medieval look on the legs. Very interesting piece.

David

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Mark December 8, 2012 10:12 pm

Great work! I especially like the locking mechanism, and the doors. The rails look like they are cutoffs from the same piece of wood, and I really like that feature. Great workmanship Tylor!

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Larry December 9, 2012 8:15 am

Nice work! I really like the contrast in wood color. Thanks for sharing.

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Patrick December 9, 2012 2:09 pm

Very Nice. I plan to make one of these some day but go in the opposite direction and downsize it to counter top size.

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alex December 13, 2012 6:50 pm

I’ve never even heard of Grenadille before, but it really fits this piece well. I’ve been wanting to make the Gadget Station for a while, but I don’t have a tablesaw (I’m only 13), so that pretty much limits me to small projects. Anyway, I really like what you’ve done with it.

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The Cajon Man August 15, 2013 11:34 am

That is really nice work! I love that kind of finish as well. I build musical instruments and I love to use a finish that is low gloss, I think it shows the wood better. Again, great job!

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Marc Choronzey November 19, 2013 3:32 pm

Hey Tylor, was that your final project at RTC? Very nice job man!

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