I thought I would pop in to let you know I’m still slowly plugging away. I’ve only had eight hours in the shop this month (July). Today (first free Saturday), I may be able to nearly double that total for the month.
It’s killing me that I can’t participate in the summer challenge but July was a bad month for me and I agreed to build these chests about a year ago! So, it was about time I put them at the top of my list.
Send an extra positive prayer/thought my way. I’m attempting a tighter tolerance on the drawers fit in the chest case than I ever have before. Hopefully my pencil has been sharp and my corners square!
Here’s where I am. I have the drawer cases assembled. Lots of sanding (drawers and chest case), as well as cutting and fitting the drawer bottoms is the order of the day.
-- Paul, Texas
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Dorje
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posted 849 days ago
Looks like great work with the time you have available to you! I’m gonna have to go back and check out your series! Have fun today!
-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA
Bob Babcock
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posted 848 days ago
Looking good.
-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org
Paul
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posted 848 days ago
As anticipated, lots of sanding on the drawer cases and the chests today. Sheet goods cut and bottoms installed in the drawers. (5 hours) Nothing to really take a picture of that you haven’t seen before.
Next step – fine tuning the drawers to the openings and deciding on what type of bottom center guide/slide to use on the drawers.
-- Paul, Texas
Dorje
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posted 848 days ago
How wide are the big drawers? I noticed that the drawer dividers don’t have center members. What are your ideas for the center guide/slide at this point?
-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA
Paul
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posted 847 days ago
The drawers are about 28” wide.
I’ve looked at several options in the catalogs for center slides/guides and it looked like I could mount them front and back without a center member built into the drawer dividers (so I’m hoping that’s not necessary). I could make my own wooden center slides, but I was leaning toward purchasing some manufactured wooden slides that can be cut to length and are 3/4” tall (which is the recess I’ve left under the drawer bottoms). I know I need to very precise in mounting the center slide but I was also considering some nylon “slide” tape that I see in the catalogs for where the bottom edges of the drawer sides will rest on the dividers and perhaps on the side guides as well.
-- Paul, Texas
Dorje
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posted 847 days ago
Do you have link to the wooden center slides? Sounds like a good solution – I can visualize what you’re talking about, but just don’t have a perfectly clear picture. Are these what you were referring to when you said, ”it looked like I could mount them front and back without a center member built into the drawer dividers”? Would you just glue the center guide piece (that rides in the channel mounted in the center) onto the bottom of the drawer? I hope I’m making sense!
-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA
Paul
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posted 847 days ago
Yes, you’re making sense.
Here’s what I was looking at http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=198
Yes, a bit of glue to the drawer bottom but also I would also try to attach to the drawer face and back as well in some way.
-- Paul, Texas