Wall Hung Tool Cabinet #13: Making Boards and Sourcing Inside Drawer Parts

Wow, with your daughter in the pic I get a sense of scale. That is a big cabinet, Your Galootness.

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Or your daughter could be really small :^)

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If you look real close, she’s holding the #5 jack… Cabinet is shy of 4’ tall, but not by much.

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

Good update smitty. Is the lunchbox dead, or just ill? No zero clearance on the TS? Backgrounds of pics, are interesting. This is a large piece. Some pics it looks “normal” size, then in others it looks all king kong.

Thanks!

Planer Power switch in-op, whole unit is with a toolmonger for (hopeful) repair. No update yet.

RE the zero clearance, I’ve never had one. Is that bad?

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You should try the zci. Heck, for irony you could use hand tools. Cleaner cuts, added safety, maybe a little easier to judge the kerf. No down side I am aware of.

I’ll check availability for my model saw… It’s a 50s King-Seeley Craftsman. Cleaner cuts is good!

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Smitty you’re an example to all of us would-be galoots. Fantastic work my friend and just think of the money you’re saving on gym membership. Great progress!

-- Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.

what Andy said!!

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Andy and Don, thanks for checking in and for commenting~!

Not knowing how to do something is one thing. Knowing and then choosing not to is another thing entirely. Glad I know how to make a board effectively, it’s good practice with handplanes of several types, but I really would have been okay doing these boards via planer. :-) That said, I think there’s more material ‘preserved’ in thickness doing it this way simply because of the effort involved to take more than necessary vs. just dropping the cutting head a half or quarter turn and running them through again. And that’s a good thing.

If the planer comes back sooner rather than later, I’ll still run them through with very light passes, to see where I am. If not, the show simply must go on.

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

Progress looks great from here, Smitty! Your cabinet is a bit larger than I thought…

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Man, everyone is saying it’s big, and based on that last picture it does look kinda huge-ish. But really it’s not. Need to stage a pic that puts it into better perspective, I think. I’ll work on that.

Thanks, Terry, for the comments! Think I’ll invest some time in drawer building while the cherry boards continue to acclimate AND I wait a little longer for the possibility of a planer…

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

Hi Smitty,
I don’t know what’s going wrong but
- with Mozilla I have no pictures at all
- with MS-IE I just have small rectangle with a red cross in it.

It is the same with your older post although I was able to see the pictures a few days ago.

So I tried others.
I don’t have the problem with Nate Meadow’s serie “end grain floor” nor with Sheila Landry post for example.
Did you change anything?

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Sylvain – wow, that’s strange. No change in process re: the way I’m posting to the blog OR in the way the pictures are hosted (photobucket).

For me, Firefox 10.0.1 shows the pics, as does IE7 from this workstation… Sucks you’re not seeing the pics!

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

For a “quick and dirty” installment, it sure was event filled. The shot of the edge work, with the bench full of shavings and planes is particularly great. Drawer building elaboration would be much appreciated. You are making it look easy Smitty!

Thanks.

-- ~Tony