# Airbrush booth

I built a simple diy airbrush booth in November 2024, here is the progress I made on it.

First I needed space, the bike shed below our appartment would suit well. I cleaned up everything and moved an old school desk to where I wanted my booth.

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I started with some planks I wanted to use as foundation and to raise the entire booth a bit. These planks were left over from a old plant container I had on our balcony and tore down. I drilled holes, sanded the sides and glued some wooden dowels in.

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Then saw the side panels and the back panel.

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Saw the bars that would go in the corners, I thought these 45 degree bars looked nice from the inside.

I sawed off some of the top, so that cables for the lights could go behind these bars later.

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There is no need for this many dowels, just a few is enough. I was unable to fit them together because at some point, some dowels did not exactly match up with the opposite holes, so it did not fit. I had to saw off some of the dowels until it would fit.

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The 45 degree cut bars would have looked nice, but these bars proved difficult when I had to glue them together. I could not clamp it together, not even with another 45 degree bar on the opposite side. The opposite bar just kept sliding out of place. I considered this a failure and tore it apart before the glue could cure. I sanded the glue off and decided to just take a square bar instead for these corners.

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This went much easier, I cut 2 bars to length, and again removed some of the tops for the cables.

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I tried to glue a corner together, but it did not line up perfectly nice, some of the dowels were a bit too long I thing, which I did underestimated when dry-fitting.

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For the next corner, I decided to do it more simple. Just 3 dowels and glue it to the edge, nothing more. Once dried, sand it to make the sides even. This worked rather well.

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Again, add just a few dowels for the back panel, and glue together.

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Next I decided to work on the planks that would form the base and carry the whole cabine. These were not the most even pieces of wood to work with and required a lot of planing to get them (a little bit) even. I wanted to do this myself and reuse these planks, but going to a workshop to have these planed would have saved a lot of time and effort.

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It took a few days to get them to be even enough, I then moved on to make the lid.

I cut four blocks from the bar I used for the corner to put on the lid and glued it together.

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I was not confident I could line up the dowels on the opposite side, so I just drilled through the blocks and hammered the dowels through them. Sadly I hit one dowel a little too hard, which almost went through the front. But it will be an easy fix later.

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Next come two holes in the lid for the ventilation. I drew a circle, drilled holes and then cut out the rest with a mortise chisel (schietbeitel). I made another mistake here, because I drew the inner diameter to be cut out. 

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Since the ventilation part is a few millimeters thick, of course it would not fit. To fix this, I used a rasping file to get rit of a few more millimeters of wood. 

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After both holes were made in the lid, I filled up some uneven and broken parts with wood plaster. Then I put on an undercoat of white paint on the wood.

After sanding the undercoat and then re-applying it again, I painted some white lacquer on the entire assembly with a paint roller. It is not necessary, but it does give it a nicer finish than just the white undercoat of paint.

