The wood floor that Craig Schriver laid down in a 7-foot-wide ramen house constructed for a doll convention in Toronto may not be solid tongue-and-groove wood planks, but that doesn't mean it's not impressive.
To complete the painstakingly detailed ramen cafe-note the black pebbles on the bar; Schriver glued each one down individually-the Canadian woodworker decided on a floor pattern using 200 1/4-inch-wide strips of oak plywood.
He posted an album of the finished ramen house to a Reddit.com woodworking forum (colloquially called a subreddit), and commenters gushed about his intense level of detail.
"Aw, man. Now I'm hungry," said one commenter.
We contacted Schriver through his Reddit account and asked him to share his wood flooring laying method:
"There are no tongues or grooves or anything in the plywood. It's just plain 1/4" ply. I glued the strips down one section at a time, then placed a board wrapped in waxed paper on top, then piled on some weights to try to keep it all flat. In the end a few of the boards were sticking up a bit, but it wasn't so bad. There are north/south long strips with east/west strips in between. What I did was glue one n/s strip down, let it dry, then dry-fit all the e/w pieces between the glued one and the next one, then I glued the next n/s strip. That way I knew all the e/w ones would fit perfectly. It was time-consuming, but if I had done it all in one shot it probably would have gone very badly."
Be sure to see the rest of the photos below. Schriver has more creations-cutting boards, beer bottle opener planks with magnetic, bottle-cap catching backs-on his blog and Facebook page.
