Around the Shop #3: Travel Plane Till

Nicely done! I am curious how you made the raised panel.

-- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

I’ve always liked this little till, Mos! Love the joinery! Too bad you have to carry it up and down those stairs…

-- tr ...see one, do one, teach one...

Thanks Terry. I’d rather have no one above me, and have my vaulted ceilings, than not have to carry them up and down stairs lol It’s just once each way whenever I use it, so it’s not so bad. Carrying all the workbench pieces (like a 2.75” thick, 9” wide, and 48” long red oak slab, for example) was significantly less fun lol
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Thanks Richard.

I made the raised panel by cutting a rabbet with the #45 all the way around. Kind of. The small scale test shows what I was originally aiming for. But then I screwed up the depth of the first rabbet on the actual one, though. It got too thin on the side, so I broke it off, and planed it down. Luckily, the width was just enough to fit into the frame still, so I then (more carefully) cut 1/4” rabbets on both sides, and glued in 1/4” pieces of red oak I had (you can see that in the last picture on the inside of the door).

I just used the #3 to plane the angle from the rabbet into the face of the panel. I marked where to stop on the face before I started, but that’s not entirely required if you can eye ball it (being my first, I didn’t trust myself yet)

The angle part was similar to what I did for the clocks I made, except those didn’t have rabbets:

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

You keep the bar set high Mos. Your mastery of hand tools is inspiring.

Thanks for the panel tutorial.

-- ~Tony

Thanks Tony, I look forward to the journey ahead :-)

For the panel, as can be seen better in the test piece, there is still a slight vertical between the rabbet and the angle, since I was using a standard bench plane, and not a rabbet plane. The edge of the plane wouldn’t allow the blade to get all the way down

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

Very nice looking, thanks for all the pictures and explanations. Although I’m pretty sure it’s a bridle joint, and not a bridal joint. ;)

-- Brian in Arlington, TX - Laziness is the foundation of efficiency.

oops! Fixed it lol thanks

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

I like it Mos – slick!

-- "It's amazing how much can go wrong when you think you know what you're doing."

Thanks CL

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods