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TARDIS Builders :: TARDIS Exterior :: TARDIS Builds :: Tara's TARDIS Page 1 of 2 » Jump to page   Go     Author Topic: Tara's TARDIS (Read 1,900 times) Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Tara's TARDIS « Thread Started on Jul 6, 2006, 7:15am » Well, here goes. I will attempt to document my build here. We started on June 24th, 2006 My friend Matt and I hit Home Depot and Lowes for the inital load of 2by4s, 4by4s, 1by3s, 1by6es and plywood (3/4 and 1/2) and bought a table saw at a discount tool place. And then we spent the better part of the day assembling the table saw and figuring out our own building guide from the collection I'd amassed from surfing the net. « Last Edit: Jul 6, 2006, 7:17am by Tara Wheeler » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #1 on Jul 6, 2006, 1:21pm » Quote: bought a table saw at a discount tool place. Tara, just FYI on the table saw, please be careful. I am not sure if you worked with one before? This was my first time. I made a couple feather boards which really helped me out. Also, you should get at least one roller stand to receive the wood as you cut your long boards. I'll post pics if your interested. You can buy the the roller stands at Lowes for $20.00. In my career, I have seen a lot of guys in particular lose digits/fingers on table saws. Always, always watch your hands and especially when that blade is at a 45 or 22 degree angles, it's an optical thing and very easy to be in wrong place at the wrong time. I hope you don't mind my words of wisdom on this topic!! Oh, by the way, was Hardware Speciality Co. able to to find you a 6x6" Fresnel Lens? The one they shipped me was 5 1/2 (diameter) x 5 3/4 (height). If yours is really 6x6, let me know and send me the product number if you don't mind -- thanks Also, if your using photobucket for your pics, when you select your pic for your avatar, make sure your using the URL address and the size is no bigger than 100x100 - FYI. I noticed your avatar was not loading up. Happy building and I hope you feel better, Jon « Last Edit: Jul 6, 2006, 7:24pm by DOCTOR IZ » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #2 on Jul 6, 2006, 5:44pm » Dear Jon, Don't worry! I'm under adult supervision! My friend Matt is a woodworker. He's doing all the serious stuff and my husband and I are assisting him. Our second build day was July 3rd. We got the big pieces of plywood cut down, glued and screwed together. We also cut down a 2by4 for the edging. Here's Matt (the tall fella in the tie dye) and my Husband David actually working. I'm sitting in front of the swamp cooler with Matt's wife Susan. This weekend we're hoping to finish the base, start on the uprights and a couple of sides. I've ordered a fresnel lens (and I'm pretty sure it's going to be 5 1/2 x 5 3/4 Jon, there was some confusion, I told them to go ahead and ship it). I will now go wrangle my icon and Jon, you go right ahead and offer any suggestion that seems pertinent. I can always use reminders! Still looking for brass door handles. . . « Last Edit: Jul 6, 2006, 5:48pm by Tara Wheeler » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Timegirl Administrator member is offline Joined: May 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 989 Location: not in a galaxy far far away Karma: 106 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #3 on Jul 6, 2006, 7:06pm » Hi Tara Wow a workshop and two helpers I'm so so jealous Re: the handles, Try searching for ‘brass sash handle’ and ‘pull’ in Google images and Froogle The type I got are often listed as sash handles. The ‘Liberty’ handle isn’t the correct one; it’s just a cheap handle of the pull type Here’s a nice pair of Victorian brass pulls (both the same size) – they will send to the US http://www.willowandstone.co.uk/showdetails.asp?id=358 There are lots in UK online stores – I’m sure there must be some in the States. If not don’t worry, I’ll get you some. TG Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Latest animation: 2001: A Who Odyssey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXnV1UNbTuM DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #4 on Jul 6, 2006, 7:25pm » Nice workshop! The helpers a definite plus! Shout if you need anything. Jon Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #5 on Jul 6, 2006, 7:26pm » Technically, there are *three* helpers and we might have five. . . We haven't really publicised our build, but people are starting to pop up out of nowhere asking if they can come help. I'm hoping to end up in a kinda Tom Sawyer position here. 'Of course you can help, just bring a sheet of plywood and a six pack. I'll just sit here in front of the swamp cooler and direct.' « Last Edit: Jul 6, 2006, 7:27pm by Tara Wheeler » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #6 on Jul 7, 2006, 5:20am » Quote: I'll just sit here in front of the swamp cooler and direct.' That's called white hat syndome! LOL. What's up with the swamp cooler? Did you find it in the swamp? Enjoy your build! Jon Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #7 on Jul 7, 2006, 4:12pm » Well, poor TimeGirl may have built under the coldest temps; I think we're going to set a record for building under the hottest temps. It's been in the high 90s here and is about to crack 100. My Husband bought a giant swamp cooler a few years back for an outdoor event and I kinda absconded with it for my workshop when the outdoor events idea fell through. It's a big monster fan with an internal grid that water runs down (you hook it up to a hose). The evaporation cools the air coming out of the fan up to 20 degrees cooler than when it went in. It doesn't work too well when the humidity soars, like it's been doing. So we've mainly been using it as a big, giant fan. When we hit 100, I'm hooking up the hose. I gotta figure out what to feed the troops tomorrow. First build was t-bone steaks (we raise our own beef, so it wasn't that expensive) and last week was chili. I might make a BBQ run this week or may make Mexican food. . . Today's tasks, figure out food, go look at door handles and buy beer. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tom Chancellor member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 684 Location: New Brunswick, Canada Karma: 33 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #8 on Jul 7, 2006, 9:32pm » Quote: Well, poor TimeGirl may have built under the coldest temps; I beg to differ I built most of my TARDIS in our unheated garage last winter when it was like -30 out I had to let go of the circular saw every few seconds because it was like holding ice T Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #9 on Jul 8, 2006, 2:57am » OK, so Tom gets 'coldest build'. Wish we could split the difference here. Went to Home Depot today. No handles, no locks. Hope to hit Lowes this weekend. Hope to also build tomorrow. I'll post pics as soon as I have them. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Scarfwearer Administrator member is offline Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 175 Location: Somewhere beginning with 'S' Karma: 12 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #10 on Jul 8, 2006, 8:35pm » Quote: Went to Home Depot today. No handles, no locks. Hope to hit Lowes this weekend. Neither place seems to stock handles that are quite like the ones on the TARDIS. I ended up using some drawer pulls for mine, which were from Lowes (I think - might have been Home Depot). They're not very authentic, but look OK, I think: Both places stock a cheap brass night-latch (about $10), which worked for me... They come in one of those plastic packs that hangs on a hook. I found it in Home Depot amongst a lot of other very similarly packaged door parts on the bottom shelf. Crispin Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DoctorWho8 Lord President member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 918 Location: Bloomington, IL, USA Karma: 1,039 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #11 on Jul 8, 2006, 9:37pm » You can get screen door handles from Menards. Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #12 on Jul 9, 2006, 2:22am » No Meynards in Texas that I know of. I have two more places to check, Lowes and then a bizarre specialty hardware store in Austin called Breed & Co. I don't hold out much hope for Lowes, but Breed & Co. might have both handles and nightlatches. Today, Matt forgot his big circular saw and so we decided to do a side and go back to the base next week. So, we got a side done. Next week, we finish the base, start on the uprights and maybe hammer out another side! « Last Edit: Jul 9, 2006, 9:08am by Tara Wheeler » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #13 on Jul 9, 2006, 3:42am » Tara, Your wall turned out nice. Wow, your really moving along! Keep up the good work! Menards is in the US and they will deliver! FYI! Your avatar still isn't showing up. Jon « Last Edit: Jul 9, 2006, 3:45am by DOCTOR IZ » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tom Chancellor member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 684 Location: New Brunswick, Canada Karma: 33 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #14 on Jul 9, 2006, 4:25am » Quote: Today, Matt forgot his big circular saw and so we decied to do a side and go back to the base next week. So, we got a side done. So... what style of box is this going to be? Brachacki? Season 18? New Series? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #15 on Jul 9, 2006, 9:07am » We started out Brachacki, but now we're seriously into hybridisation. Which is a polite way of saying: we're off the original measurements and are working on plausably level and plausibly square. She'll have the white phone box door, but a wall phone on the other side. Oh, and blue slats across the windows. She'll be mine. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Dematerialiser Chancellor member is offline TO DO: Final weathering paint job, fit lights and sounds. Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 628 Location: UK Karma: 1,160 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #16 on Jul 12, 2006, 9:22am » Looking really good Tara! Can we have more photos as you go along? I for one would like to see the details on things like the base (bevelled edge or square, etc) and the panelling, and the steps above the walls/doors. cheers Chris Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "Gosh, that takes me back. Or forward. That's the trouble with time travel; you can never remember." DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #17 on Jul 22, 2006, 2:54pm » Tara, How goes it? Haven't herd from you lately. Hope all is well. How's your build coming along? Jon Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tom Chancellor member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 684 Location: New Brunswick, Canada Karma: 33 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #18 on Jul 22, 2006, 9:51pm » Quote: Tara, How goes it? Haven't herd from you lately. Hope all is well. How's your build coming along? Jon We've not heard from Doctor Dori in some time, either Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #19 on Jul 25, 2006, 3:16am » Hi Jon! Where did you get that phone you're using for an avatar? Gorgeous! Sorry I've been gone so long. I got really sick with allergies and had to spend the better part of the last two weeks in bed. The TARDIS build is dragging along in the heat. We've got the two solid sides, the base and two corner posts mostly finished. They need some finish work with a router and some sanding of the wood putty covering the screw holes and then it'll be time for primer. The signs are all ordered, the windows are ordered. TimeGirl's sending me door handles (I owe you big time TimeGirl). The fresnel lens arrived and it's gorgeous. 5.5 inches high by about 5.5 wide. I'm hoping to get some pictures next week. Don't worry. We're continuing. I may end up buried in my TARDIS, but it'll get built! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #20 on Jul 26, 2006, 5:02pm » Gahhh! Just furious here. Ordered the phone box sign from an online fabricator. It arrived yesterday. Just gorgeous, black vinyl letters on white painted aluminum, just as I ordered. It looked so perfect. . . Unwrapped it the rest of the way and it's got two big honking holes punched one at the middle top and one middle bottom. Sent them email and they've replied to send it back for replacement. I don't need it right now for where we are in the build, but it was so lovely. . . I told them, I told them, and I told them, (I have all the emails where I'm confirming FOUR CORNER HOLES) even sent them pictures and they still got it wrong. I'm going to stomp off to the workroom to look at the two mainly finished sides. For some reason this seems to calm me. . . I'm heading into Austin in an hour or so to pick up the Police Box signs from another fabricator. Wish me luck. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged mitty Time Lord member is offline Maximum Defense Mode! Joined: Jun 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 82 Location: Melbourne, Australia Karma: 7 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #21 on Jul 27, 2006, 7:31am » Good luck Tara, post pics soon Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #22 on Jul 30, 2006, 12:42am » Tara, I found that 2005 TARDIS phone on the net somewhere. I can email the file to you or I'll look and see if I can find the address. I keep searching for different pics for avatars. I would like to alter some of the pics to make them neat ie special effects, but don't know how to do that graphics kinda thing. By the way, your avatar is still missing. Jon Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #23 on Jul 30, 2006, 4:16am » Grumble, grumble, grumble. Will get after that avitar as soon as I'm done posting here. First, the good news. TimeGirl's door handles arrived. Here's a pic with the Fresnel lens that arrived a couple of weeks back. I have a set of signs for the top light box. I'm not entirely happy with them, but they'll have to do for now. I have night latches with plain strike plates (no name on them). Still working on getting the bloody windows. (grumble, grumble, grumble) My build chief, Matt, brought in a friend, Paul, who's a really fantastic carpenter. He had a look at the build and decided we needed to change a few things if we wanted it to stand up straight and not collapse with us inside. So, we made no real advances on the build. We fixed some problems we didn't know we had with the solid sides, have abandoned the solid 4by4 posts for the corners and may or may not have to start over with our base. But, at least we have a new plan of attack and all the carpenters are in agreement. Here they are with the new and improved two solid sides and one of the top box signs. The really bad news is that we're going on a two-week hiatus from building. Matt's going to visit relatives and I have a literary convention I have to attend if I'm ever going to become a published writer. I have to learn to schmoose. I *hate* schmoosing. So, see y'all in three weeks. When it's *really* hot. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #24 on Jul 30, 2006, 5:05am » Quote: Grumble, grumble, grumble. Will get after that avitar as soon as I'm done posting here. TimeGirl's door handles arrived. Here's a pic with the Fresnel lens that arrived a couple of weeks back. Tara, how did you and TG work out the handles. Where did she get them, how much $$ and how long did it take to get state side? By the way, The handles look superb! KUDOS to TG.. GRUMBLE GRUMBLE lol! I still see no blood avatar Jon « Last Edit: Jul 30, 2006, 5:08am by DOCTOR IZ » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #25 on Jul 30, 2006, 6:59am » I private messaged TG and she sent them. She got them at B&Q in Ashford. Took about two weeks to get here. Please let me know if that avatar is up. If it's not, I don't know what to do to make it work. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #26 on Jul 30, 2006, 7:05am » Tara, Ok, if your using photobucket and assuming you have uploaded the pic you want to use as your avatar, you must select and copy the URL address, not TAG or IMG. Next, go to your user id modifiy profile section, make sure your avatar is selected to 'none'. Paste your URL address from photobucket into the URL Avatar address. Next select width and height, no bigger than 100 x 100. That should get your avatar out there. I still don't see it loading with your posts. I hope that helps some. Cheers, Jon « Last Edit: Jul 30, 2006, 7:41am by DOCTOR IZ » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Scarfwearer Administrator member is offline Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 175 Location: Somewhere beginning with 'S' Karma: 12 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #27 on Jul 30, 2006, 3:36pm » It looks like the picture is not quite up on photobucket yet. I'm guessing the picture Tara uploaded is not in the right format. I'd try loading it into Paint, and saving as a JPG image then uploading the JPG to photobucket. That might do it. Crispin Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tara Wheeler Gallifreyan member is offline No matter where you go, there you are! Joined: Jul 2006 Gender: Female Posts: 22 Location: Ranchos de Taos Karma: 1 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #28 on Jul 31, 2006, 2:31am » I went to Photobucket, deleted the old, replaced it with a new JPG, cut and pasted the URL into the forum. Can you see me now? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Primrodo Castellan Senior Member TR July 07 member is offline Joined: Jun 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 285 Location: Trenton, Ontario Karma: 1,162 Re: Tara's TARDIS « Reply #29 on Jul 31, 2006, 7:39am » Is this about her avatar? Cause I can see that just fine....its tennant with "Did you miss me?"... 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